One Arizona fast-food story has ended. Another is continuing to take off.
Salad and Go’s Aug. 5 shutdown brought a tough ending to a homegrown brand that started in Gilbert and became part of Arizona’s everyday drive-thru landscape. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company closed its remaining restaurants in Arizona and Nevada, leaving a large number of restaurant workers suddenly figuring out what comes next.
Angie’s is offering one possible answer.
The Arizona restaurant company is actively recruiting former Salad and Go employees, from hourly team members and shift leaders to assistant managers, store managers and other experienced restaurant leaders.
There’s history here, which makes the move more meaningful than a standard hiring push. Angie’s founder Tony Christofellis and his wife, Roushan, founded Salad and Go before exiting the company in 2021. They have had no involvement with the business since then. Now, as their former brand closes its doors, the company they went on to build is making room for some of the people who helped keep Salad and Go running.
“There is a place for you at Angie’s,” the company shared in a social media post directed to former Salad and Go employees. And that invitation comes with real numbers attached.
Experienced Salad and Go team members can start at $18.51 per hour, while shift leaders can start at $21.51 and assistant managers at $22.51. Angie’s is also hiring experienced store managers and other restaurant leaders across Arizona.
The outreach comes at a particularly difficult moment for Salad and Go’s former workforce. In its announcement, Angie’s described thousands of hourly employees and salaried managers across Arizona and Nevada losing their jobs without severance. Those employee and severance figures come from the company’s statement and have also been reported by local media.
But Angie’s isn’t simply adding a few extra names to the schedule. The company is in growth mode, and much of that momentum is being pointed straight at Arizona. Along with expanding its restaurant teams, Angie’s is adding to its production and warehouse operations. It also plans to open six additional Phoenix-area restaurants this year, with the first three expected to arrive sooner as part of that expansion.
That gives the hiring effort a little more weight. There are jobs to fill because the company is growing, but there is also a pool of experienced local restaurant workers who suddenly need somewhere to land.
It’s a strange full-circle moment for Arizona’s restaurant scene. Salad and Go began here, grew into a recognizable drive-thru brand and became familiar enough that its sudden disappearance feels bigger than a few darkened storefronts. The Christofellises, meanwhile, moved on years ago and continued building Angie’s into its own fast-growing Arizona food story. Now those two chapters are intersecting again, this time through the people behind the counters, at the windows and inside the stores.
Insider Takeaways
- Angie’s is actively recruiting former Salad and Go employees following the chain’s Aug. 5 shutdown in Arizona and Nevada.
- Store managers and other experienced restaurant leaders are also being recruited throughout Arizona.
- Tony and Roushan Christofellis founded Salad and Go before exiting the company in 2021 and later building Angie’s.
- Angie’s is expanding its restaurant, production and warehouse teams as it puts more resources into Arizona.
- The company plans to open six additional Phoenix-area restaurants this year.
To learn more or apply, visit angies.com/careers.
