Chapter 11 (filed Aug 4, 2026); all 70 remaining stores closed Aug 5, 2026; ~1,300 staff; real estate sold to Dutch Bros
The rise & fall
9 moments · 2013–2026
The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.
2013
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2013
Founded in Gilbert, Arizona
Tony and Roushan Christofellis start selling a made-to-order salad for under $6 from a tiny drive-thru with no dining room and no seats.
Restaurant Business
2021
2021
Private equity buys out the founders
Volt Investment Holdings takes over the fast-growing Arizona chain.
Restaurant Business
2022
2022
The Wingstop playbook arrives
Ex-Wingstop CEO Charlie Morrison takes charge and more than doubles the chain — eventually 146 stores across four states.
Restaurant Business
2022
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2022
The peak: a $1.1B salad chain$1.1B
Restaurant Business pegs the never-priced private company at ~$1.1B at about 140 units — the only valuation figure ever published.
Restaurant Business
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
41 Texas stores close at once
The expansion is what killed it: court filings describe $47M+ invested and $25M+ borrowed on the Texas–Oklahoma push, plus a $72M commissary carrying $15–20M a year in overhead — in markets where nobody knew the brand.
Court filing
Jan 2026
Jan 2026
32 more stores go dark
A sale process opens in February and never closes, while a cyclospora outbreak that never implicated the chain scares diners off lettuce at the worst possible moment.
Restaurant Business
2024–26
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From the inside · Glassdoor reviews, 2024–26
Glassdoor reviews traced the churn from inside: across 2024–26, employees from crew to district managers described management that never stopped changing, and reviewers said again and again that the chain promised internal advancement while filling manager roles from outside — complaints that kept coming right up to the day of the filing.
Aug 4 ’26
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Aug 4 ’26
Chapter 11 — joins the Unitard Club 💔
And Go Concepts files in Houston with $500M–$1B in both assets and liabilities; all 70 remaining restaurants close the next day, and ~1,300 people lose their jobs.
Court filing
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
Dutch Bros buys the drive-thrus$105M
A $105M real-estate deal signed the day of the petition hands the tiny buildings to a coffee chain.
Court filing
$1.1Bof peak value erased · 13 years
💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.
How it happened
Salad and Go sold a made-to-order salad for under $6 out of a tiny drive-thru building with no dining room and no seats. Tony and Roushan Christofellis opened the first one in Gilbert, Arizona in 2013 and were bought out by private-equity firm Volt Investment Holdings in 2021; ex-Wingstop CEO Charlie Morrison arrived in 2022 and more than doubled the chain to a peak of 146 stores across four states, on a valuation Restaurant Business put at $1.1 billion.
The expansion is what killed it. Court filings describe $47M+ invested and $25M+ borrowed for the Texas and Oklahoma push, and a central commissary that cost over $72M to build and carried $15-20M a year of overhead — all to serve markets where nobody knew the brand.
Forty-one Texas stores closed in September 2025 and 32 more that January; a sale process opened in February 2026 never closed, and a cyclospora outbreak that never implicated the chain scared diners off lettuce at the worst possible moment.
And Go Concepts filed Chapter 11 in Houston on August 4, 2026, shut all 70 remaining restaurants the next day, and sold the real estate to Dutch Bros for $105M. The last review posted before the end, dated the day of the filing, gave constant management turnover as its only complaint.
Source: Restaurant Business (Aug 2026): peak valuation ~$1.1B in 2022 at ~140 units — the only published figure; Restaurant Dive puts it 'over $1 billion' the same year. The company, private throughout, never disclosed a priced round. Bankruptcy specifics from the Ch. 11 petition (And Go Concepts LLC et al., No. 26-90753, S.D. Tex. Houston, Aug 4, 2026): $500M-$1B assets and $500M-$1B liabilities, ~1,300 employees, $105M asset purchase agreement with Dutch Bros signed on the petition date
