This beloved regional catering chain overheated every 97 sites
Coronavirus has been hard for everyone, but this catering chain is unfortunately part.
The parent company of the regional salad chain and the soup bottle and sweet tomatoes announced that it permanently closed all 97 sites citing the coronavirus pandemic and the growing difficulty for the management of restaurants centered on the buffet .
CEO of fresh gardenJohn Haywood Told Thursday to the media that Garden Fresh plans to file the protection of federal bankruptcy, telling the publication that the company has not "viablely seen reopening". The latest restaurant served customers in March, when they are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"The FDA recommends stopping any type of salad bar, buffet or self-service station," Haywood explained toToday the food. "Although the regulations are understandable, all our concept is a buffet salad bar. We do not think that the state health service and the local will not allow anything close to this format at any time.
"You think that we have to spend a year or more without customers. It literally becomes tens of millions of dollars to hope that people will want a buffet concept," continued Hayword.
Sweet Tomatoes Swepture and Tomatoes Restaurants were founded in San Diego about 15 years ago and specialize in the serving fresh salads and soups offering a large salad bar, homestel soup, pasta, bread. , muffins and an oven pizza on the premises. The food is presented in a salad bar and buffets serve you, which are not viable ways to serve food in the middle of the pandemic.
TheDisease Control Center provided strict guidelines For restaurants to reopen in the middle of the current coronavirus pandemic. Serving buffet foods, in open pastry dishes open to aerosolized droplets, does not comply with the safety practices provided by experts in medical and public health. In addition, a recent video of JapanIllustrated just how dangerous buffet Maybe to spread potentially fatal contagions.
A number ofRestaurant channels have closed many places Following the coronavirus, but sugary bloods and tomatoes appear to be the first national channel to go out completely.
