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Big Plans For The Big Salad
In less than five years, the Grosse Pointe Woods-born restaurant has grown to a chain of four - with more to come.
The space was small, but the plan was not, when John and Elizabeth Bornoty opened The Big Salad in Grosse Pointe Woods in 2008. What the couple envisioned was to market the salad in a new way by making it a meal rather than a beginner or a side dish with a classed-up salad bar chock-full-of-toppings. It would be the the foundation a company that would spread across metro Detroit, Michigan and beyond. Four years later, their little postage stamp store on Mack Avenue, a calming mix of greens and yellows around a smorgasbord of colorful salad toppings has grown to three larger locations. Two more stores are opening in 2013 in Ann Arbor and Rochester Hills, and four others are on the drawing board, awaiting franchisees to take them on. The…
Katelyn Engel
9:22 am on Monday, November 19, 2012
This is so exciting to hear! Mr. and Mrs. Bornoty are geniuses. She was my math teacher last year, and is the biggest sweetheart and deserves this success. Bravo! Come open one up in Kalamazoo! more ›