{"id":289170,"date":"2026-05-29T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289170\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:09:07","slug":"sweet-tomatoes-returns-to-florida-grand-opening-in-fort-myers-on-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289170\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Tomatoes returns to Florida: Grand opening in Fort Myers on June 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweettomatoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sweettomatoes.com\/\">Sweet Tomatoes<\/a>, a popular soup-and-salad chain restaurant that was ultimately shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to return to Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The Grand Opening for its Fort Myers location is happening Monday, June 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Action News Jax told you in December when the chain posted on its Facebook page for its Tucson, Arizona, location that the restaurant originally located at 14080 S. Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers would reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The chain was founded in 1978 in California, where it was known as Souplantation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016, closing two of its stores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/sweet-tomatoes-closes-jacksonville-area-locations\/455632329\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/sweet-tomatoes-closes-jacksonville-area-locations\/455632329\/\">in Jacksonville and Orange Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">During the pandemic, Sweet Tomatoes closed its remaining 97 locations. In 2023, \u201cST Three, LLC purchased exclusive rights and all intellectual property associated with the brands,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbre.com\/press-releases\/cbre-arranges-lease-to-new-operator-of-sweet-tomatoes-at-former-restaurant-location-in-tucson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbre.com\/press-releases\/cbre-arranges-lease-to-new-operator-of-sweet-tomatoes-at-former-restaurant-location-in-tucson\">CBRE said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The company re-opened its Tucson location in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweet Tomatoes, a popular soup-and-salad chain restaurant that was ultimately shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[344,347,28,30,29,348,116,351,349,45442,350,45443,36231,346,345],"class_list":["post-289170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-northeast-florida","tag-souplantation","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-st-three-llc","tag-sweet-tomatoes","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}