Salad and Go Menu 2026: Closed, Reopening & Full Nutrition

If you searched for the Salad and Go menu, there’s a fair chance you were hungry and near one of their bright drive-thrus. That page you were hoping for would have listed salads at around seven dollars and breakfast burritos for a few. Those prices are gone for now. So is every store.

Plenty of menu sites never caught up. One popular listing, dated January 2026, still prints opening hours from 6:30 in the morning, as if you could pull in today. This guide does the opposite. It tells you plainly what happened, then gives you the full final menu using numbers from Salad and Go’s own nutrition document rather than copied estimates.

Is Salad and Go Open? The Short Timeline

No. Salad and Go’s own homepage now reads: “As of August 5, all Salad and Go Locations are closed.” That followed a Chapter 11 filing on August 4, 2026, and two earlier rounds of closures that had already pulled the chain out of Texas and Oklahoma. Here’s how a fast-growing drive-thru shrank to nothing in under a year.

By the end of 2025 the chain was already down to about 70 locations, which Nation’s Restaurant News reported as a 52.1% year-over-year retrenchment based on Technomic data. That’s not a slow fade. It’s a chain cutting itself in half in twelve months.

Why Salad and Go Closed

The company blamed three things: sustained pressure on consumer demand, “past strategic growth challenges,” and rising costs. It added that a July cyclospora outbreak, in which Salad and Go was not implicated, weakened confidence across the whole salad category. Trade press summarised the same story more bluntly as inflation plus overexpansion.

That second point matters, and some coverage gets it wrong. One widely read summary says the chain “blamed” its bankruptcy on the outbreak. The company’s own statement says the opposite about its role: Salad and Go was not implicated, but the scare hurt everyone selling raw greens at the same time. If you’re wondering whether the food made people sick, the company says no.

Honestly, the growth story explains more than the outbreak does. A chain that went from a handful of Arizona drive-thrus to well over a hundred stores in a few years, then moved its headquarters to Texas, then moved it back, was carrying a lot of rent on stores that weren’t earning enough. The cyclospora scare landed on a business that was already thin.

Is Salad and Go Coming Back?

Yes, in a much smaller form. On October 14, 2026 a bankruptcy judge approved the sale of Salad and Go’s name, trademarks and recipes for $180,000 to Beyond Salt and Pepper LLC. Its owners are founding chef Daniel Patiño and Mike Myers and Tom Misitano of Hospitality First Concepts. They have said they’ll open two Arizona restaurants by the end of 2026.

What happened to the old drive-thrus

The buildings went to coffee. Reports from the week of the closure said Dutch Bros had agreed to buy the Arizona and Nevada sites, with a $10 million deposit paid. Later reporting says 7 Brew outbid Dutch Bros on September 1. The numbers don’t agree from source to source. One account gives 73 sites with 41 in Arizona, another 63 sites for $123.5 million with 36 in Arizona, so we’re not going to pick one. What’s clear is that the drive-thru you remember is likely to reopen as a coffee stand, not a salad bar. If you’re curious what took over, our Dutch Bros menu prices guide covers the original bidder.

The Last Salad and Go Menu, With Official Calories

Salad and Go’s final nutrition guide, dated July 2026, covers ten salads, ten wraps, two sizes of breakfast burrito, breakfast quesadillas, sides and drinks. Every calorie figure in this section comes straight from that document, which is still on the company’s website. We read the PDF ourselves rather than relying on third-party menu lists, for reasons the next section makes obvious.

Salads

The guide lists each salad at two chicken portion sizes, so every salad has a small calorie range rather than one number. Salads were built in 48-ounce bowls, which is big by drive-thru standards, and dressing isn’t included in these figures.

Two salads hide a surprise. The Arcadia and Roasted Autumn each carry 31 to 32 grams of sugar, mostly from fruit and candied pecans. No other salad on the menu went above 6 grams. They were also the only two with tree nuts. If you were choosing a salad to keep sugar down, the Caesar or Fajita was the better call.

Wraps

Every salad also came as a wrap, and this is where the calories jump. A wrap adds the tortilla and a full 2.5-ounce sachet of dressing, so even the lightest wrap lands at more than three times the calories of the lightest salad.

Breakfast burritos, bowls and quesadillas

Breakfast ran on a separate early-morning menu. The guide lists a classic burrito range and a larger “Go Big” range, and notes that any breakfast bowl was 310 calories lighter than the matching burrito because it dropped the flour tortilla.

The small breakfast quesadillas were the quiet win here: 230 to 300 calories, under 750 mg of sodium, on a six-inch tortilla. If you wanted protein without the 1,500-plus milligrams of salt in every burrito, that was the order.

Sides and drinks

Worth flagging: a 24-ounce Fruit Stand Lemonade carried up to 83 grams of sugar, more than two and a half times the sugar in the sweetest salad. The zero-calorie cold brew and iced teas were the drinks that actually matched the “eat better” pitch.

Salad and Go Numbers That Other Menu Lists Get Wrong

The most-copied third-party Salad and Go menu understates every wrap by 170 to 320 calories and most breakfast burritos by 100 to 200, compared with the chain’s own July 2026 guide. It also lists several items — a Thai salad, a “Good Greens” salad and a Jalapeño Ranch salad — that don’t appear in that guide at all.

The errors don’t all run one way, which tells you something. A list that’s consistently low might be using an older recipe. A list that’s high on some salads and low on every wrap is more likely a patchwork copied from different years. Either way, if you were counting calories, the third-party numbers would have let you down on exactly the items with the most calories.

What Salad and Go Cost Before It Closed

Salad and Go’s pitch was a big salad, with protein, for under $7. Its former CEO Charlie Morrison described it in early 2024 as a salad “served in a 48-ounce bowl” at “a price that’s under $7, including protein.” Third-party listings from January 2026 put salads and wraps at $6.79. These are historical prices; nothing is on sale today.

That steak line is a small example of why we don’t trust tidy price lists. Salad and Go’s own menu page said “steak (+$2.00)” in one place and “Add steak for $1.20” in another. If the chain’s own page couldn’t agree, a single number on a copied list was never going to be reliable. The breakfast range is wide for the same reason: one listing has every burrito at $3.34, another has them between $4.99 and $5.99.

What About Salad and Go Gift Cards?

We couldn’t find any statement on gift cards. None of the closure coverage we read, and nothing on Salad and Go’s own website, says whether gift cards or app balances will be honoured or refunded. That silence is the honest answer, and it’s worth knowing before you count on one.

Two things are worth keeping in mind. The relaunch group bought the name, trademarks and recipes, not the old company’s debts, and nothing reported says they’ve taken on old gift-card balances. So a card bought from the bankrupt business may not work at a reopened store. Keep the card and any receipt anyway, and watch for an announcement from the new owners before assuming it’s worthless.

Where to Eat Instead of Salad and Go

No other chain copies Salad and Go’s formula of a large drive-thru salad at around $7, but several cover part of it. CAVA is the closest for build-your-own bowls, Chipotle for a quick protein bowl, and Subway for a cheaper fast option. All three run dine-in counters rather than salad-only drive-thrus.

Honestly, none of them matched Salad and Go on price for a full-size salad with protein. That gap, and the chain’s collapse, is the real reason so many people are still searching for this menu.

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How We Researched This Guide

Every calorie, protein and sodium figure comes from Salad and Go’s own July 2026 nutrition PDF, which we downloaded from its website and read line by line. The closure notice and the Texas-closure FAQ are quoted from saladandgo.com. Company history, the bankruptcy and the relaunch come from dated news coverage, and where two outlets disagreed we’ve said so rather than picking a side.

What we could not confirm: current prices (there are none, since nothing is open), any statement on gift cards, the exact number of sites each coffee chain bought, and which Arizona locations the relaunch will use. A couple of outlets we tried returned errors, so we relied on the reports we could actually read.

If the relaunched Salad and Go publishes a new menu or prices, this page will carry them. Until then, the menu above is the most accurate record of what the chain actually served.