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title: "Fast Casual: Fazoli’s Ditching Artificial Ingredients"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/5ac1f75b-9d45-4d7b-a40a-b6f3148f9c44
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-fazolis-ditching-artificial-ingredients-11622
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
published: 2017-04-05T16:11:41.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:35:26.533Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/c5ce29c8d6bb96cc649041625e01d6625654.jpg
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# Fast Casual: Fazoli’s Ditching Artificial Ingredients

**TL;DR:** Fazoli's is investing $1.5 million to remove artificial ingredients from its menu options, aiming to offer a completely clean food menu by June 19. Fazoli's is following the lead of Panera Bread and Chipotle in offering a menu free of artificial sweeteners, flavors, preservatives, and colors.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-04-05. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-fazolis-ditching-artificial-ingredients-11622).*

## Story

By June 19, Fazoli’s will be the third restaurant overall — behind Panera Bread and Chipotle — to offer a menu free of artificial sweeteners, flavors, preservatives and colors.

Fazoli’s has invested more than $1.5 million dollars to achieve this goal.

"Fazoli's is proud to take the lead among national brands under 1,000 locations to offer a completely clean food menu. We credit Panera and, recently, Chipotle in doing the same, and are surprised that other larger restaurant systems haven't done so as well,” said Carl Howard, president and CEO of Fazoli’s.

Fazoli’s clean eating initiative is part of the company’s brand turnaround, which was fueled by 15 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- menu pricing (topic)
- Chipotle (company)
- Panera Bread (company)
- Fazoli's (company)
- brand turnaround (topic)
- clean food (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-fazolis-ditching-artificial-ingredients-11622). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/5ac1f75b-9d45-4d7b-a40a-b6f3148f9c44).