☕️ I’ve been tracking the Salad and Go saga for a while now – the closure of every Texas and Oklahoma location back in January, the subsequent move of the company’s headquarters back to Arizona, the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak, and last week’s Chapter 11 filing and closure of every remaining store.
Today, let’s talk about what comes next for all those empty drive-through boxes scattered across the Valley.
Tempe-based coffee chain Dutch Bros, as I’m sure you’ve heard, has agreed to pay $105 million for the leases on 51 former Salad and Go locations across Arizona and Nevada, plus more than a dozen others in Texas and Oklahoma.
The logic tracks: Both chains built their business around drive-through-only boxes with no indoor seating, so Dutch Bros doesn’t have to gut a kitchen or rip out a grill hood to make the spaces work – just swap the signage and the menu boards.
Dutch Bros says it expects to start converting stores next year, and the sale still needs bankruptcy court approval. In the meantime, what you probably want is the list. So here are the 47 Arizona addresses named in the filing:
Ahwatukee
- 4716 E. Ray Road
Avondale
- 1585 N. Dysart Road
Casa Grande
- 1322 E. Florence Blvd.
Chandler
- 5985 W. Chandler Blvd.
- 2020 W. Chandler Blvd.
- 4965 S. Arizona Ave.
Gilbert
- 910 S. Cooper Road
- 3299 E. Williams Field Road
- 7480 S. Power Road
Glendale
- 9121 W. Glendale Ave.
Laveen
- 3505 W. Baseline Road
- 7480 S. 59th Ave.
Mesa
- 5259 E. Brown Road
- 1040 W. Southern Ave.
- 251 S. Power Road
- 2814 S. Signal Butte Road
- 10031 E. Southern Ave.
- 1956 S. Country Club Drive
Peoria
- 8268 W. Deer Valley Road
Phoenix
- 2006 W. Pinnacle Peak Road
- 719 E. Bethany Home Road
- 21060 N. Cave Creek Road
- 12601 N. Paradise Village Pkwy.
- 710 E. Dunlap Ave.
- 1902 W. Northern Ave.
- 3233 E. Indian School Road
- 3425 W. Greenway Road
- 777 W. Indian School Road
- 3333 W. Peoria Ave.
- 13838 N. Scottsdale Road
- 17155 N. Tatum Blvd.
- 2301 N. 44th St.
- 7560 W. Lower Buckeye Road
Queen Creek
- 21429 S. Ellsworth Road
San Tan Valley
- 1754 W. Hunt Highway
Scottsdale
- 2323 N. Scottsdale Road
Surprise
- 17137 N. Litchfield Road
- 15437 W. Cactus Road
Tempe
- 909 E. Broadway Road
- 7800 S. Priest Drive
- 1804 E. Elliot Road
- 3229 S. 48th St.
Tolleson
- 9875 W. Lower Buckeye Road
Tucson
- 5501 E. Speedway Blvd.
- 1302 S. Kolb Road
- 2080 W. River Road
- 7980 E. Speedway Blvd.
Worth noting: This is still just a proposed sale awaiting bankruptcy court sign-off, and Dutch Bros hasn’t said which of these specific locations it will actually convert versus simply hold the leases on.
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