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Top 100: Restaurants - Giardino

Giardino makes the top 25 of this year's Top 100: Movers & Shakers.

February 18, 2015

Giardino makes the top 25 of this year's Top 100: Movers & Shakers.

Florida-based Giardino doesn’t just sell salads, said CEO Kenny Lugo. The concept is built around what he calls “nutritional empowerment.” 

“Our gardener chefs serve the widest variety of premium ingredients — we offer the highest number of salad combinations from any other concept,” Lugo said. “This wide variety of offerings allows us to empower our guests to make the choices that are suitable for their levels of health and lifestyles.” Gardener chefs also receive a massive amount of training, Lugo said, which allows them to guide guests during the process of building their perfect meals. 

The chain, which has eight locations, expects to open two or three by the end of the year and hopes to add five more in 2015. “We’re focusing on healthy growth, not fast growth, throughout Florida and the Southeast,” Lugo said.