For Star subscribers: We love our local restaurants, but national chains are finding just as much love from Tucson diners as new eateries make big inroads into the market.
For a city that prides itself on its independent, homegrown restaurants, Tucson is a magnet for national chains.
People are also reading… "Whenever something new opens up, Tucson just flocks to it," said Jeramy Price, a commercial real estate broker with Volk Company who specializes in national brands. Arguably the fast-growing chain is Salad and Go, which launched in Phoenix in 2013 and opened its first Tucson restaurant at 5501 E. Speedway Blvd. in August 2021. Before 2021 was history, the salad and wraps concept had opened its second location at West River Road and North La Cholla Boulevard. It added two more locations in 2022 and a fifth this year, with No. 6 expected to open later this summer.
Seth Brink said he and his partners, Mark Urness and Matt Jeffries, honed in on Tucson because of its diverse population including the large influx of Midwest and East Coast winter visitors and college students, and Urness's family ties to the city; he has relatives here and he has operated businesses in Tucson.
Volk's Price said the new chains are doing well in part because"there’s just people that are gonna go to chains because it may be slightly more convenient." “I think it comes down to my belief in independents to persevere and Tucson diners to continue to support them as they have done for at least as long as I’ve been in operation," Kyte added."I think folks in Tucson understand the power of their spending.”
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