Crispers Expands its Salad Bar Concept, Has Fresh Ideas on Kids' Meals
My mom loves to shop at the Publix grocery store in her suburban Atlanta town. Sure, she'd love a Whole Foods and a Fresh Market, too, but for those staple stock-ups she always hits the Publix.
So I'm excited to let her know that Publix has a majority interest in a quick-serve salad bar concept called Crispers—and is expanding co-locations of Crispers and Publix in the South. (There are now nearly forty locaations in Florida.)
Based on what I've read, Crispers gets the connection between providing good options for kids and building repeat family visits. I also liked this bit about kids' meals:
We believe that nutrition is very important for children, and that you should have more choices than hamburgers and fried foods. So we’ve included plenty of fresh fruits, and main dishes
that we’re sure kids will love. There’s macaroni and cheese, quesadillas, and a whole lot more.
It's so easy to feed Baby A at the big salad quick-serves. For our family, it's a sure thing. There's so much variety, plus there's always a good soup and some mac-and-cheese. Hey, maybe Baby A and Nana can have a lunch date one day at a Crispers.
Meanwhile, salad concepts are flourishing in urban markets—just as you'd expect them to do.
How about your family? Are the salad-bar quick-serves a good choice for you? Comment and let me know.
Comments
QSMama and Baby A need to come visit again and go to my Publix so A can ride in the neat green car carts. They are trying TV's with videos in them in some Atlanta locations, but alas, not ours yet.
I love Publix for the clean stores and helpful employees as well as the in-store cooking demos with recipes and shopping lists that go into a cookbook folio. These menus are the perfect thing for a busy mother who needs to put a nutritious meal on the table quickly, and it helps that the menus are composed of items that are on sale in the store for that week.
Come again soon!
QSNana
Posted by: QSNana | August 22, 2006 03:34 PM