{"id":22084,"date":"2026-10-16T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=22084"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:52:54","slug":"this-salad-chain-is-snapping-up-33-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/this-salad-chain-is-snapping-up-33-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"This Salad Chain Is Snapping Up 33 Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Article Notes. --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Content --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Coors family made its name in beer. Now it\u2019s passing its salad business to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/franchises\/directory\/crisp-green\/336299\" id=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/franchises\/directory\/crisp-green\/336299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crisp &amp; Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Minneapolis-based fast-casual chain has agreed to buy 33 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/franchises\/directory\/mad-greens\/335226844\" id=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/franchises\/directory\/mad-greens\/335226844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAD Greens<\/a> and Snappy Salads restaurants from Salad Collective, the Coors family\u2019s restaurant group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/story\/crisp-green-to-buy-and-convert-33-mad-greens-and-snappy-salads-locations\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/story\/crisp-green-to-buy-and-convert-33-mad-greens-and-snappy-salads-locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QSR reports<\/a>. Crisp &amp; Green, which has about 60 locations, plans to convert them to its own brand over time. Along with previously planned openings, the deal should push the chain to 100 restaurants by the end of 2026, a decade after its founding. Financial terms weren\u2019t disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the new markets, the deal grows Crisp &amp; Green\u2019s footprint in Phoenix, Austin, Denver and Dallas. The Coors family will stay involved as a strategic minority partner.<\/p>\n<p>Crisp &amp; Green has largely skipped the coasts, focusing on the middle of the country, where founder Steele Smiley says healthy chains face less competition. Demand for fresh food \u201cisn\u2019t limited to New York, Los Angeles or other major coastal cities,\u201d he said. The chain has grown through company-owned stores, franchising and friends-and-family money, with no VC backing.<\/p>\n<p><ent-results id=\"results\" class=\"ent-component\" is-article-embed=\"true\" should-update-url=\"false\" lead-source-type=\"article\" lead-source-id=\"460373\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/buying-a-franchise\/this-salad-chain-found-a-faster-way-to-grow-by-buying-up-rivals-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coors family made its name in beer. Now it\u2019s passing its salad business to Crisp &amp; Green. The Minneapolis-based fast-casual chain has agreed to buy 33 MAD Greens and Snappy Salads restaurants from Salad Collective, the Coors family\u2019s restaurant group, QSR reports. Crisp &amp; Green, which has about 60 locations, plans to convert them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/crisp-and-green-1026.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22086,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions\/22086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}