Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes

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Sweet Tomatoes, which operated as Souplantation ( SOO-plan-TAY-shən) in Southern California, is a United States–based chain of all-you-can-eat buffet-style restaurants. The first location opened in 1978 in San Diego, California, where the company was headquartered. The company was incorporated as Garden Fresh Corp. in 1983. The company went public in 1995 but was taken private in 2004. The company, owned by Garden Fresh Restaurant Corporation, temporarily closed its 97 locations in March 2020 in response to government mandates related to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 7, 2020, the closure was made permanent and the company filed for liquidation. In 2021, Florida-based company ST Three LLC purchased the intellectual property rights and assets for the company, and the first location was reopened in Tucson, Arizona, in 2024. A second location reopened in Fort Myers, Florida, in 2026.

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