Five years after Salad and Go barreled into Dallas-Fort Worth and opened over 40 drive-throughs, all of them sit vacant. Another fast-growing drive-through company, Dutch Bros, wants some of Salad and Go’s empty buildings
Dutch Bros plans to take over 65 Salad and Gos in Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada and its home state of Arizona, according to an announcement dated Aug. 5, 2026 — the same date Salad and Go closed its final 70 shops
Salad and Go had already shuttered all of its D-FW stores in late 2025 and early 2026
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QSR magazine reports Dutch Bros agreed to pay $105 million for 65 sites in four states. The deal isn’t closed yet.
The company has not said where the 65 salad shops will be transformed into Dutch Bros stores. Dutch Bros’ investor relations contact and its media rep did not respond to questions.
That Dutch Bros wants dozens of Salad and Go facilities is not a surprise. During its rapid expansion, the salad company built 700-square-foot, free-standing structures with an indoor kitchen and not much else. The focus at Salad and Go stores was its drive-throughs, which often featured two lanes for faster service
This format matches Dutch Bros’ needs: It sell coffees, energy drinks and smoothies quickly to consumers in their cars
The company already invested in Dallas-Fort Worth when it opened a roastery in the Collin County town of Melissa in 2024. It’s Dutch Bros’ second roastery, behind the original in its home state of Oregon
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The Dallas Morning News has confirmed one former Salad and Go in D-FW will not be a Dutch Bros, because competing drive-through company 7 Brew Coffee has taken 5101 Ross Avenue in Dallas. But will Dutch Bros call dibs on any of the over three dozen remaining Salad and Go drive-throughs in D-FW? North Texas has twice the number of empty Salad and Gos as Houston, San Antonio and Austin, combined. D-FW has six times the number compared to Oklahoma
Also in D-FW, Salad and Go has a vacant production facility in Garland. The salad company spent $47.1 million to build it, according to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing dated Aug. 4, 2026
Salad and Go failed, in part, because of its too-fast growth plan, company executives have said in news statements. The company blamed rising costs of ingredients, which strained Salad and Go’s model of selling low-cost, healthful food. Indeed, Salad and Go’s generously portioned salads priced at $5.74 were a talker when the company expanded into D-FW in 2021
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The cyclospora outbreak in July “weakened confidence across the industry,” the salad shop said in a statement
Dutch Bros is up to over 1,200 shops in 25 states and earns $1 billion in annual revenue, QSR reported. Wherever it expands next, CEO and president Christine Barone said in a statement, Dutch Bros will seize an opportunity “to continuing densifying our footprint.”
