Taking Their Sweet Time

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #164

One of the business stories to come out of the early pandemic period was the closure of the fairly large California-based salad bar/buffet restaurant chain Sweet Tomatoes/Souplantation. You’d think “Souplantation” would be more of a candidate for renaming than some old Lee Highway in Virginia, but somehow the name stuck up until the chain closed entirel…