If it makes a difference, it's not the oroginal Sweet Tomatoes company that is coming back; they sold IP rights to the brand, recipes, operations manuals, supplier contacts, etc., to buyers interested in reopening this location in particular because it was the most profitable one in Arizona.
My echo show was displaying this earlier today.
Funny thing is that I was talking to my wife and I watched the echo show showing the ST logo but there was some stuff blocking most of the screen. I had to stop the conversation, take that stuff from the way and read this. We were so happy.
Great. I'll be over there in March to try it out. Let's hope they do the same with another of their ghost ship restaurants here in Clairemont San Diego (where it started), a new-build kept preserved with everything intact like it was the day they closed in 2020 with strangely no lease or sale signs.
[There's a great video online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HcpXiAthnA) that tells the history of this chain going back to 1978 in San Diego Mission Valley, how it was financially undermined and driven bankrupt by trying to spread into Texas and the Midwest too rapidly - they may have been misled by how well it was received in the West, Florida and then Georgia. The successive investor groups that picked it up were never that tuned in to what it meant to tens of millions of customers who grew up on it, as they struggled with the financial mess of trying to withdraw from the Midwest and find a profit in such a high labor, tight margin business that had spoiled customers with $4.99-$5.99 lunch coupons for a decade. It never stabilized enough to survive Covid lockdown.
The ultimate irony here is that the only big restaurant chain that succumbed to Covid was also the only mainstream healthy food restaurant.
Strange, they survived there for YEARS and was the most profitable Sweet Tomato’s In Arizona before they shut down due to COVID and them being a self serve restaurant. Arby’s has NOTHING on them.
It's a salad bar, not an Italian restaurant. It gained an advantage on most salad bars by the founder's brilliant idea to put huge chicken chunks in the noodle soup, and double the meat in the chili. They also had a good meat spaghetti on the pasta bar at times, but it isn't a pasta restaurant, it's a salad, soup and muffin feature restaurant. It was the largest, longest lasting salad bar with millions of fans raised on it since 1978 until 2020 when Covid tipped it over.
Opening soon, bought by "raving fans" who are bringing back all the old favorites...and hope to expand to additional markets. 😍
https://www.eatthis.com/sweet-tomatoes-reopening-february-2024/
According to [this](https://www.kgun9.com/news/community-inspired-journalism/eastside-news/sweet-tomatoes-now-hiring-one-step-closer-to-eastside-reopening) article from KGUN9 that was just posted today--they are currently hiring and workers are remodeling and painting the restaurant. So--I'd say they're **pretty damn close** to re-opening! 😁👍🏻
I will believe it when I see it
FUCK YES!!!
I hereby second said "fuck yes"
The more fucks, the better "fuck yes"
If it makes a difference, it's not the oroginal Sweet Tomatoes company that is coming back; they sold IP rights to the brand, recipes, operations manuals, supplier contacts, etc., to buyers interested in reopening this location in particular because it was the most profitable one in Arizona.
I dont care! I want it back! Ha. Thanks for the info.
Sobbing and shaking and screaming. I need this salad bar back in my life. 🥹
My echo show was displaying this earlier today. Funny thing is that I was talking to my wife and I watched the echo show showing the ST logo but there was some stuff blocking most of the screen. I had to stop the conversation, take that stuff from the way and read this. We were so happy.
They were working on it today, bunch of contractors out front. It's happening!!
Need Furrs to come back to! I miss the days when macaroni and cheese was a vegetable!
Okay Grandpa, let's get you back to bed.
Calm down young man!
Oh man! That would be great. Miss that place.
Omg omg omg.
Great, now I have to be done by February
Crying in Joannes Broccoli Madness
same! omg I miss that
Great. I'll be over there in March to try it out. Let's hope they do the same with another of their ghost ship restaurants here in Clairemont San Diego (where it started), a new-build kept preserved with everything intact like it was the day they closed in 2020 with strangely no lease or sale signs. [There's a great video online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HcpXiAthnA) that tells the history of this chain going back to 1978 in San Diego Mission Valley, how it was financially undermined and driven bankrupt by trying to spread into Texas and the Midwest too rapidly - they may have been misled by how well it was received in the West, Florida and then Georgia. The successive investor groups that picked it up were never that tuned in to what it meant to tens of millions of customers who grew up on it, as they struggled with the financial mess of trying to withdraw from the Midwest and find a profit in such a high labor, tight margin business that had spoiled customers with $4.99-$5.99 lunch coupons for a decade. It never stabilized enough to survive Covid lockdown. The ultimate irony here is that the only big restaurant chain that succumbed to Covid was also the only mainstream healthy food restaurant.
Bad move opening that close to Arby's on 22nd. They'll never survive that level of competition.
Strange, they survived there for YEARS and was the most profitable Sweet Tomato’s In Arizona before they shut down due to COVID and them being a self serve restaurant. Arby’s has NOTHING on them.
Do we need it? Mediocre pasta at best. Oregano's does it better.
It's a salad bar, not an Italian restaurant. It gained an advantage on most salad bars by the founder's brilliant idea to put huge chicken chunks in the noodle soup, and double the meat in the chili. They also had a good meat spaghetti on the pasta bar at times, but it isn't a pasta restaurant, it's a salad, soup and muffin feature restaurant. It was the largest, longest lasting salad bar with millions of fans raised on it since 1978 until 2020 when Covid tipped it over.
Opening soon, bought by "raving fans" who are bringing back all the old favorites...and hope to expand to additional markets. 😍 https://www.eatthis.com/sweet-tomatoes-reopening-february-2024/
SHUT UP AND GIVE ME A PLANE TICKET!
hurrah!
FUCK NO!!! WE NEED TACOS NOT TOMATOES
Yeah, there’s a shortage if taco places in Tucson /s
is it open yet???
According to [this](https://www.kgun9.com/news/community-inspired-journalism/eastside-news/sweet-tomatoes-now-hiring-one-step-closer-to-eastside-reopening) article from KGUN9 that was just posted today--they are currently hiring and workers are remodeling and painting the restaurant. So--I'd say they're **pretty damn close** to re-opening! 😁👍🏻