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title: "Noodles & Company Is Glad They Do Zoodles Now"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/44b85488-c932-4379-b6b9-d5b21aeeef3b
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/noodles-company-is-glad-they-do-zoodles-now-2709053
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
published: 2019-02-01T20:15:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:31:03.054Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/99142f5032dcb869c63ac736bf02e54a2227.jpg
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# Noodles & Company Is Glad They Do Zoodles Now

**TL;DR:** Noodles & Company saw a 2.3% increase in traffic in the third quarter of 2018 due to the introduction of zucchini noodles, or 'zoodles'. The company's CEO, Dave Boennighausen, credits zoodles for attracting a new part of the population, including Millennials, Gen Z-ers, women, and families.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-02-01. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/noodles-company-is-glad-they-do-zoodles-now-2709053).*

## Story

The health-conscious blog readers have struck again. Noodles & Company first introduced zucchini noodles, widely known as “zoodles,” back in May—and the low-carb option has been paying off, according to an article by Nation’s Restaurant News.

The article reports that the 460-unit chain saw a 2.3 percent increase in traffic in the third quarter of 2018 after stepping up 5.4 percent the quarter before, and the CEO of the brand largely credits those spindly veggies.

“What zucchini did—which is particularly exciting—is it unlocked a significant part of the population that really just hadn’t thought about us in a while,” the article quotes CEO Dave Boennighausen, adding that zoodles have made a big impression among the highly indexed Millennials, Gen Z-ers, women and families.

According to the article, the Noodles & Company CEO hinted that the company is currently exploring new flavor combinations and even considering slicing other vegetables into noodle form soon. Here’s hoping for broccoloodles.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- menu innovation (topic)
- Noodles & Company (company)
- millennial marketing (topic)
- low carb options (topic)
- q3 traffic (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/noodles-company-is-glad-they-do-zoodles-now-2709053). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/44b85488-c932-4379-b6b9-d5b21aeeef3b).