Noodles & Company
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1995 in Cherry Creek, Denver, Colorado |
| Founder(s) | Aaron Kennedy |
| Headquarters | Broomfield, Colorado |
| Key people | Aaron Kennedy (Chairman) Kevin Reddy (President & CEO) Keith Kinsey (CFO & COO) |
| Industry | Fast Casual |
| Products | Pasta Salads Soups Other food products |
| Revenue | ▲ 75.9 million USD |
| Employees | 3,500 |
| Website | Noodles |
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Noodles & Company (or sometimes referred to as Noodles) is a chain of fast casual restaurants located in parts of the United States. The company is privately held. Founder Aaron Kennedy opened the first store in Cherry Creek, Denver in 1995[1]. The central office is located in Broomfield, Colorado. It was listed at #4 on America's Top 10 Healthiest Fast Food by Healthy Living.
The menu consists of mainly pasta, soup, and salad items from various cultures, and include macaroni and cheese, mushroom stroganoff, chicken noodle soup, and Pad Thai. All dishes are vegetarian, except the chicken noodle soup (contains chicken), the caesar salad (dressing contains anchovies) and the pad thai (contains fishoil). T but chicken, shrimp, beef or tofu can be added to any order. The design of the restaurant is modern with bold colors.
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[edit] Menu
The menu at Noodles & Company restaurants is divided into three categories - Asian, Mediterranean and American. In addition to pasta and noodles, Noodles & Company offers different salads and soups, categorized under each of the three menus. Noodles & Company offers self-serve style fountain drinks, in addition to bottled beverages, beer, and wine. Noodles & Company provides vegetarian and vegan options. Customers can choose to add beef, chicken, shrimp, or vegetarian tofu to their orders.
Noodles & Company promotes different seasonal specials. For example, a limited time offer white-linguini dish with asparagus was offered from April to late June 2008; this was the second seasonal appearance of the dish, the last time having been in spring 2005.
[edit] Locations
Noodles has more than 218 locations in 18 U.S. states regions of the United States, including:
- Mountain states, mostly located throughout the Colorado cities of Denver, Louisville, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and the Utah cities of Salt Lake City and Provo
- Upper Midwest, including Minneapolis-Saint Paul,Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska. Janesville, Milwaukee, Madison, Kenosha, Wausau and Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the Quad Cities in Iowa, Kansas, St. Louis, Missouri, and throughout Chicagoland as well as south of Chicago in Champaign and Normal, Illinois.
- Great Lakes, including Detroit, Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as franchised locations in Indianapolis, West Lafayette, and Bloomington, Indiana.
- Mid-Atlantic, located throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area in Virginia and Maryland, and Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, North Carolina
[edit] Exposure
Nation's Restaurant News declared it a Hot Concepts! winner in 2001.[2] Ernst & Young named Kennedy Entrepreneur of the Year in the "consumer products" category in 1993.
ColoradoBiz magazine named it the top retail/wholesale company in Colorado in 2003.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Noodles & Company Fact Sheet". http://www.noodles.com/factsheet.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-26.
- ^ Bret Thorn, Nation's Restaurant News. (2005-01-31)
- ^ Noodles & Company: no continental divide: East meets West in Colorado as chain conjures up global flavors in an American setting | Nation's Restaurant News | Find Articles at BNET.com
[edit] External links
http://noodlesandcompany.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Noodles-Company/29530040245?ref=mf
