Garden Fresh anticipated it would wind up with "between 90 and 104 restaurants" and "significantly less debt". In January 2017, the company said it expected to emerge from bankruptcy later that month, following a sale of the company's assets to New York-based private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management L.P. At the time Garden Fresh was nearly $175 million in debt. In October 2016, Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp, the owner/operator of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The restaurant closed temporarily while authorities investigated the outbreak. In 2007, a Souplantation restaurant in Orange County, California was linked to an outbreak of E. In 2005, an affiliate of the private investment firm Sun Capital Partners purchased Garden Fresh and with it the restaurant chains. All of the restaurants were company-owned.
The company expanded across the American West and Southwest, and also opened locations in several Southeast states, including 23 restaurants in Florida. This restaurant and a second one in Point Loma were purchased in 1983 by Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp, founded by Michael Mack to operate the chain. The two concepts grew side by side in a friendly, mutually supportive, yet competitive environment for several years. Dennis, Steve and Ron decided to partner to create a parallel concept, the Souplantation. Dennis was impressed with the new concept and introduced Steve Hohe, the Springfield Restaurant manager and Ron Demery, a bail bondsman and friend of John and Scott.
Dennis's friends, John Turnbull and Scott King were opening their first Soup and Salad restaurant The Soup Exchange. It was the idea of Dennis Jay, who was a bartender at Springfield Wagon Works, a pioneer in salad bars in El Cajon. The first Souplantation restaurant opened on Mission Gorge Road in San Diego, in 1978.
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