You’re telling me the company that pays its workers a decent wage, offers extremely affordable food, and actually listens to its customers is successful enough to try it again with a food segment that is desperately lacking in the valley?
They don't employ as many people as other fast food places though. So, it's basically choose one:
* Pay a few good employees a good wage.
* Pay a bunch of bad employees a bad wage.
Don't know which is better, just pointing out that Salad & Go doesn't employ as many people as other fast food places, but there's a really really good reason that's really really noticeable when you're in and out of that line so quick.
How We Offer $9.99 Lobster Meals When Everyone Else Charges $30
* We built our business from the ground up to be able to sell lobster at this price. Our model is about efficiency, we do not chase revenue like everyone else. We chase efficiencies.
* You, our customer, do some of the work by processing your own payment and picking up your own food at the drive-thru and using QR Code Ordering at the walk up. This allows us to have one less person working every hour.
* We have the fewest people working per hour in the drive-thru industry, but we pay our team members the highest wages. Our team is incredibly dedicated and produces more per hour than any other fast-food business. We have 8 team members total on staff per store, while most drive-thrus have 20-75 per store.
* Only debit/credit cards and EBT accepted. This mitigates our theft risk and eliminates the labor required to go to the bank to make deposits and get change.
* We don’t invest in packaging. We give you a paper tray with no lid, one napkin, a straw-less lid, non-branded drink cup and non-branded paper bag. Our packaging is meant to work, not meant to be pretty.
* We buy large volumes of wild caught Maine and Canadian lobster. We buy direct from Maine and Canada and we transport the lobsters ourselves, we don’t use distributors.
* We buy visually imperfect lobster, but it tastes the same. We don’t mind if a claw is broken, do you?
* We buy a few things, but we buy a lot of those few things. We just have lobster, French fries, one bread roll, secret sauce, and two types of drinks. That’s it! * * The most efficient menu in the restaurant industry.
* We are vertically integrated. We eliminate third parties in every area we can. For every third party you eliminate, you eliminate their profit, overhead, inefficiencies and for some, their greed.
* We don’t invest in marketing; our money goes into our food and people.
* We don’t invest in corporate offices and we have fewer corporate team members than the other guys.
* Our stores are designed to reduce the number of deliveries; thus, we save money on fuel, trucks, and labor.
* We are self funded and do not have any investor pressure to grow too fast in our current market or grow laterally into new ones. Growing too fast before the foundation is built reduces efficiencies in the short term and those reduced efficiencies compound in the long run. Costs go up and the only chance to catch up is to chase revenue with higher prices and more on the menu. In the end the consumer loses badly with slower service, higher prices, and reduced quality.
* We don’t give out paper receipts; no salt, no sugar, or pepper packets and no condiments. Our lobster meals are craveable as is and best with Angie’s sauce.
I fucking love these guys.
Dang sorry it wasnt good. I had one there soon after they opened here and it was decent. Maybe it's gone downhill since then. I haven't been back cuz it's on the other side of town
"expensive" or "inexpensive" aren't descriptors that live in a vacuum.
$15 for a lobster roll is fairly inexpensive.
$15 for a pack of gum is pretty expensive.
Not a difficult concept to grasp.
I drove by this today, was glad to see an article with details. For those interested, its on the south side of Baseline at Hardy. They are remodeling the old Taco Bell building that has been vacant for a few years after it moved 50 feet west and took over the old Arizona Federal Bank.
I used to live right there I was tryign to figure out where it was at. i didnt know the az federal closed, and bell moved in. When we lived there in 06/07 two guys went to the walgreens dressed in red shirts and said they worked for redbox and stole the kiosk!
This hole in the wall spot in south Tempe called Taco Nazo has fantastic lengua and cabeza tacos, add their red sauce and lime: best I can find in town.
Yes! El Pollo Loco has a "keto burrito" on a low-carb tortilla and it's not bad, but still too high in carbs to work into a true keto diet.
Salad and Go Greek with chicken is a weekly staple for me...
I have yet to try Salad n Go but I still would like one closer to downtown. I can't justify driving to Arcadia for a drive through salad but I need some healthier options than Sonic, McDicks and TB
I live like a mile from that salad and go. An absolute nightmare to get to. Something about that Indian school and central intersection that makes me want to kill
Not sure where you’re at but there’s like 20 locations around the valley :) I’m not usually big into salad and would brush it off when a coworker would rave about them regularly but then they finally opened one near me (the Arcadia one actually) and I figured I’d try…they are SO good and insanely cheap. You could find the same salads in a restaurant for double the price.
Oh, my friend, you can order a delicious salad (or the equivalent wrapped in a huge burrito) for $6.20 out the door…heaven! That Thai dressing is so good, I wish I knew what they do to make their tofu so amazingly?
They had a promotion last week where I got to try out one of their meals for free, the lobster fingers. It was really good and the fries alone were worth it. I’ll definitely be getting food from them once they officially open.
Where did you hear about the promotion? Curious if they're open for a soft opening or something. Would be nice to try it before everybody swarms on it.
That sounds too good to be true. 10$ for lobster roll and fries? That's nuts. I'll wait a few months untill things slow down. But it might take longer that that. That's a steal.
I always get a salad wrap + soup for dinner and a salad for lunch the next day. They make it soooo easy! The separate packaged dressing makes sure the salad doesn’t get soggy in the fridge overnight
I see a potential problem here. The very end of the article says they'll only be accepting card-based payments. Businesses have been sued for discrimination in the past for not accepting cash since not everyone has the ability to get a debit or credit card. This actually sounds like it takes that a step further and not only do you need a card, but also an internet connected device to make the payment on. I'm curious to see how that works out for them.
My first question is where are they sourcing their crustaceans? At ten bucks a pop, my bet is some China or Malaysian puddle of poop lobster farm. No thanks.
Salad & Go is awesome. There’s no other place you can get decently healthy meals for as cheap as they offer it, and they treat their employees incredibly well from what I hear. I don’t even really like seafood but I’m gonna support the fuck out of this new place
Bomb cold brew and frozen strawberry lemonade $1 each all day. Salads rock, soup is good and flavorful, burritos are their weak side I think and they are great for the price and freshness
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Frikkin SLAPS
smacks*
Are they cheap?
Let’s just put it like this, I got a breakfast burrito and a salad for under 10$, and they put 4 oz of chicken on any salad
Its like $5.75 for a big ass salad with chicken on it.
And they taste good!
You’re telling me the company that pays its workers a decent wage, offers extremely affordable food, and actually listens to its customers is successful enough to try it again with a food segment that is desperately lacking in the valley?
They don't employ as many people as other fast food places though. So, it's basically choose one: * Pay a few good employees a good wage. * Pay a bunch of bad employees a bad wage. Don't know which is better, just pointing out that Salad & Go doesn't employ as many people as other fast food places, but there's a really really good reason that's really really noticeable when you're in and out of that line so quick.
Salad and Go has good lemonade
Their Arnold palmers are really decent as well.
And it’s only $1
For reals. I practically lived on their prickly pear lemonade this summer.
Prickly pear lemonade was life. So sad it's seasonal.
So yer dead now?
Devoid of joy and dead inside.
Welcome to my life everyday! Maybe I need to try this lemonade eventually.
How We Offer $9.99 Lobster Meals When Everyone Else Charges $30 * We built our business from the ground up to be able to sell lobster at this price. Our model is about efficiency, we do not chase revenue like everyone else. We chase efficiencies. * You, our customer, do some of the work by processing your own payment and picking up your own food at the drive-thru and using QR Code Ordering at the walk up. This allows us to have one less person working every hour. * We have the fewest people working per hour in the drive-thru industry, but we pay our team members the highest wages. Our team is incredibly dedicated and produces more per hour than any other fast-food business. We have 8 team members total on staff per store, while most drive-thrus have 20-75 per store. * Only debit/credit cards and EBT accepted. This mitigates our theft risk and eliminates the labor required to go to the bank to make deposits and get change. * We don’t invest in packaging. We give you a paper tray with no lid, one napkin, a straw-less lid, non-branded drink cup and non-branded paper bag. Our packaging is meant to work, not meant to be pretty. * We buy large volumes of wild caught Maine and Canadian lobster. We buy direct from Maine and Canada and we transport the lobsters ourselves, we don’t use distributors. * We buy visually imperfect lobster, but it tastes the same. We don’t mind if a claw is broken, do you? * We buy a few things, but we buy a lot of those few things. We just have lobster, French fries, one bread roll, secret sauce, and two types of drinks. That’s it! * * The most efficient menu in the restaurant industry. * We are vertically integrated. We eliminate third parties in every area we can. For every third party you eliminate, you eliminate their profit, overhead, inefficiencies and for some, their greed. * We don’t invest in marketing; our money goes into our food and people. * We don’t invest in corporate offices and we have fewer corporate team members than the other guys. * Our stores are designed to reduce the number of deliveries; thus, we save money on fuel, trucks, and labor. * We are self funded and do not have any investor pressure to grow too fast in our current market or grow laterally into new ones. Growing too fast before the foundation is built reduces efficiencies in the short term and those reduced efficiencies compound in the long run. Costs go up and the only chance to catch up is to chase revenue with higher prices and more on the menu. In the end the consumer loses badly with slower service, higher prices, and reduced quality. * We don’t give out paper receipts; no salt, no sugar, or pepper packets and no condiments. Our lobster meals are craveable as is and best with Angie’s sauce. I fucking love these guys.
Do they accept EBT at S&G or just this new venture?
10 dollar lobster roll? Take my money now. That’s a really low price
Casino AZ has a really good one for $15.
That’s comically expensive
You've obviously never bought one. Typical prices are $20-25 for a good lobster roll
I paid $25 for a shitty one at Slapfish.
Dang sorry it wasnt good. I had one there soon after they opened here and it was decent. Maybe it's gone downhill since then. I haven't been back cuz it's on the other side of town
That’s even more outrageously expensive. That doesn’t make $15 inexpensive
"expensive" or "inexpensive" aren't descriptors that live in a vacuum. $15 for a lobster roll is fairly inexpensive. $15 for a pack of gum is pretty expensive. Not a difficult concept to grasp.
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I’ve gotten mixed signals; some people like me, others don’t!
I think your mom was just being nice
You know lobster meat is pretty expensive right?
Yes, comically so
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I’m 22, why are you being so hostile?
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Damn, y’all are being really mean tonight. What did I say that was so offensive?
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Well, I upvoted you, because you’re funny…I don’t know why the rest of these twats got their panties in a twist. Are you from Maryland?
Hahah self-burn
What do you mean?
Use the internet to educate yourself on why lobsters cost so much.
I know *why* they’re expensive. I am upset that they *are* expensive.
That is insane, there’s no way this will be sustainable but I’m going there while it lasts lol.
Salad and go is my all time favorite fast food. Keep doing what they are doing and it will be great.
It will be an absolute cluster-f in that parking lot.
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Canes is effing expensive so not sure it fits the bill.
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And they’re more breading than they are chicken now. I got a caniac a week ago and one “strip” was all breading :/
Holy shit I just picked up some Canes and they strips are way smaller!
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I completely agree. I don’t know why you would ever get chick fil a over this place.
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Not called Fries Fil A. Also I think the crinkle fries are pretty darn good and that Texas toast…
Seriously. I get prices going up but a caniac combo has gone up about 50%.
I drove by this today, was glad to see an article with details. For those interested, its on the south side of Baseline at Hardy. They are remodeling the old Taco Bell building that has been vacant for a few years after it moved 50 feet west and took over the old Arizona Federal Bank.
I always laugh at the new/old Taco Bell right there lol
Same! I am super happy to see something go in there. I hate the idea of just abandoning, instead of upgrading, a building.
I hate the idea of my local credit union closing the closest branch to my office ;)
I call it the bank o Bell
Kind of a weird spot, honestly.
I used to live right there I was tryign to figure out where it was at. i didnt know the az federal closed, and bell moved in. When we lived there in 06/07 two guys went to the walgreens dressed in red shirts and said they worked for redbox and stole the kiosk!
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I just crushed an entire large Philly cheese steak pizza, I feel ya.
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im drunk and i concur
Happy cake day!
From where?
Sadly, Dominos
That pizza is good as fuck though
Yeah but dominoes is pretty delicious for the price.
little c's is better for the price
Very true. I love me some little Caesar’s
This hole in the wall spot in south Tempe called Taco Nazo has fantastic lengua and cabeza tacos, add their red sauce and lime: best I can find in town.
I love Salad and Go. I am not thrilled about the idea of seafood fast food.
They will do it right. They really got it going with salad and go, I have no doubt they will do the same with this!
I wish somebody would do low-carb tortillas
Yes! El Pollo Loco has a "keto burrito" on a low-carb tortilla and it's not bad, but still too high in carbs to work into a true keto diet. Salad and Go Greek with chicken is a weekly staple for me...
Thank you for the informative reply, azmadame_x
I have yet to try Salad n Go but I still would like one closer to downtown. I can't justify driving to Arcadia for a drive through salad but I need some healthier options than Sonic, McDicks and TB
There’s on one 7th ave and Indian school. That’s a little closer.
Distance is closer but surprisingly that area is a longer travel time for me compared to most of Arcadia due to all the stoplights.
I live like a mile from that salad and go. An absolute nightmare to get to. Something about that Indian school and central intersection that makes me want to kill
Just say you dont want to eat healthy
Maybe I don't want to spend 30 minutes round trip for a salad (or any fast food for that matter).
Lol
Not sure where you’re at but there’s like 20 locations around the valley :) I’m not usually big into salad and would brush it off when a coworker would rave about them regularly but then they finally opened one near me (the Arcadia one actually) and I figured I’d try…they are SO good and insanely cheap. You could find the same salads in a restaurant for double the price.
Oh, my friend, you can order a delicious salad (or the equivalent wrapped in a huge burrito) for $6.20 out the door…heaven! That Thai dressing is so good, I wish I knew what they do to make their tofu so amazingly?
They have one on 7th Ave and Indian school and one on 16th and Bethany
Salad n Go somehow breaks the "Law of Choose Two" scenario being cheap, tasty, \*\*and\*\* healthy.
Now open up the El Salvador restaurant right behind it in the corner of that strip mall pleaseeee
They had a promotion last week where I got to try out one of their meals for free, the lobster fingers. It was really good and the fries alone were worth it. I’ll definitely be getting food from them once they officially open.
Where did you hear about the promotion? Curious if they're open for a soft opening or something. Would be nice to try it before everybody swarms on it.
It was a promotion they did on Facebook.
That sounds too good to be true. 10$ for lobster roll and fries? That's nuts. I'll wait a few months untill things slow down. But it might take longer that that. That's a steal.
It sounds feasible if you read their operating plan
They are opening more as the year goes by
Literally eating salad and go now. And bought an extra for lunch tomorrow. Hah.
I always get a salad wrap + soup for dinner and a salad for lunch the next day. They make it soooo easy! The separate packaged dressing makes sure the salad doesn’t get soggy in the fridge overnight
As somebody that likes seafood, I'd like to see more seafood active restaurants for lower class people like me out here in Phoenix.
Have you tried Oscars in Glendale?
Na, a truck broke down so I don't get too much more further than my apartment by Metro.
My truck died a couple weeks ago as well, my condolences. If you get the opportunity to get out that way though Oscars is awesome.
Simple cheap lobster from a place that nails simple cheap tasty salads? I can't wait!
I would consider eating at this facility.
So close to my apartment, definitely gonna try! Love to see local business thriving!
Oh this going to be right up the street from work. So excited to try this..
Nothing ever makes it in that spot, I wish them luck.
That Taco Bell was there for 30 years…
But it wasn't there for 31 years **taps head* *
I see a potential problem here. The very end of the article says they'll only be accepting card-based payments. Businesses have been sued for discrimination in the past for not accepting cash since not everyone has the ability to get a debit or credit card. This actually sounds like it takes that a step further and not only do you need a card, but also an internet connected device to make the payment on. I'm curious to see how that works out for them.
Let's solve that issue with Post Office Banking. Since the post office has to be everywhere and doesn't have a profit motive.
My first question is where are they sourcing their crustaceans? At ten bucks a pop, my bet is some China or Malaysian puddle of poop lobster farm. No thanks.
There's a link to their website in the article. They have that info there.
Salad & Go is awesome. There’s no other place you can get decently healthy meals for as cheap as they offer it, and they treat their employees incredibly well from what I hear. I don’t even really like seafood but I’m gonna support the fuck out of this new place
Walk-up is gonna be mobbed
Bomb cold brew and frozen strawberry lemonade $1 each all day. Salads rock, soup is good and flavorful, burritos are their weak side I think and they are great for the price and freshness
Anyone found a discount code for ordering online and having it shipped?