Cars & Salads doesn't seem to flow as well. Some salad place is going in there and although they do serve coffee, I doubt they open early...
“This is whole, clean, healthy food,” he told me. “This is driven by Millennials. This is what they want. They care about where their food is coming from, how it’s raised.”
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A fast casual brand is making good on its promise to grow.
New York-based CoreLife Eatery opened its first Central Ohio restaurant 11 months ago at 8741 Sancus Blvd. across from Polaris Fashion Place. At that time, they company, which started in Syracuse in 2015, had seven restaurants.
As of the end of October, it has grown to 21 open restaurants and at least a pair of other Central Ohio eateries in the plans among the more than 30 additional sites listed as coming soon.
The company this year committed to the Wilson Place project, a Schiff Properties LLC development at the southeast corner of Lane Avenue and High Street near Ohio State University. The opening is targeted for August 2018.
A unit also appears to be slated for the Lennox Town Center filling a pair of spaces previously occupied by Johnny Rockets and Cup O’ Joe coffee shop.
I haven’t spoken with the company yet, but CoreLife lists the Lennox unit on its website, while Beachwood-based property owner DDR Corp. (NYSE:DDR) shows it on a map of the site as well. Construction on the space is underway with a March opening targeted.
Co-founder Todd Mansfield, speaking to me last year, said he and his co-owners see fast-casual healthier food as an under-served market.
CoreLife takes the fast-casual model of assembly-line ordering and applies it to a healthier menu.
Its ingredients are free of trans fats, artificial colors, sweeteners and additives, it uses no genetically modified organisms, and its chicken and steak are free of antibiotics and hormones.
There is no soda – just artisan lemonades, cold-pressed teas and coffee.