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title: "The Tennessean: Saladworks Targeting Middle Tennessee for Expansion"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/46c9a44a-16f9-46fc-9a8f-a8be0fa2f303
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/the-tennessean-saladworks-targeting-middle-tennessee-for-expansion-4241
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
topics: ["Development & multi-unit"]
published: 2016-04-11T23:18:34.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T12:18:41.219Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/20c7becea8e4a0d4b546a3f493beacfe233160411180734.jpeg
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# The Tennessean: Saladworks Targeting Middle Tennessee for Expansion

**TL;DR:** Saladworks is expanding into Middle Tennessee with a development agreement to open eight locations. The franchise group, Eat Ur Greens, plans to open several new locations in the area over the next three to five years.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2016-04-11. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/the-tennessean-saladworks-targeting-middle-tennessee-for-expansion-4241).*

## Story

The 30-year-old restaurant chain that specializes in customizable salads, is the latest fast-casual restaurant chain to target Middle Tennessee for growth.

A franchise group for the Philadelphia-based company has a development agreement to open eight Saladworks locations across the Kentucky and Tennessee markets.

Brian Fox of Eat Ur Greens, the franchise group that also includes Howard Harmon and Rett Dallas, said the growth plan will include several new locations in middle Tennessee over the next three to five years. The group opened Tennessee’s first Saladworks in late 2014 in Cool Springs and it also owns a location in Bowling Green, Ky.

“We like the fact that (Saladworks) is a fast-casual concept — which from a restaurant standpoint and consumer standpoint there is a lot of migration toward fast-casual concepts rather than fast-food or sit-down restaurants — and the fact it involves healthy salads as entrees,” Fox said.

Saladworks was founded in 1986 in New Jersey and the company now has more than 100 locations. The company entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2015 and was later purchased by private equity firm Centre Lane Partners.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- unit expansion (topic)
- private equity (topic)
- fast casual (topic)
- Saladworks (company)
- Centre Lane Partners LLC (investor)
- Middle Tennessee (location)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/the-tennessean-saladworks-targeting-middle-tennessee-for-expansion-4241). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/46c9a44a-16f9-46fc-9a8f-a8be0fa2f303).