Tossed Plans Growth Spurt

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL-Tossed, a restaurant chain specializing in salads, may only have three units right now, but company executives have big plans for the concept. They are forecasting 25 to 30 new units next year, a total of 200 in five years and an eventual stores count of 1,000 in the US.

The locally based chain currently operates two units in New York City in Manhattan and another in Livingston, NJ. A Ft. Lauderdale unit is scheduled to open early next year, and the company will start the chain’s initial expansion in Florida and New Jersey, Eric Schmitt, Tossed’s president and CEO, told GSR.

Beyond that, the company will target all of the major markets in the US, as well as selected secondary trade areas, where the 2,400-sf stores are near other high-traffic tenants. “We’d like to be in strip centers that have a lot of draw,” he says.