{"id":82166,"date":"2025-12-13T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:22:07","slug":"sweet-tomatoes-set-to-return-to-south-fort-myers-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82166\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Tomatoes set to return to south Fort Myers | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"54\" data-end=\"192\">FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Sweet Tomatoes, the popular salad and soup buffet that closed in 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SweettomatoesTucsonEast\/posts\/%EF%B8%8F-the-wait-is-over-magic-fansfrom-dunes-to-deliciousness-your-favorite-salads-an\/1153657840251167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is preparing to reopen in south Fort Myers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"392\">The restaurant is returning to its former location at 14080 S. Tamiami Trail. Permitting records show interior remodeling is underway at the site, signaling the chain&#8217;s comeback under new ownership.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"392\">RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfshorebusiness.com\/hospitality\/sweet-tomatoes-preparing-return-to-south-fort-myers-site\/article_488c30e7-fd48-4aeb-abe1-116900743eb9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sweet Tomatoes preparing return to south Fort Myers site<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"673\">Sweet Tomatoes shut down all locations nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic after filing for bankruptcy. The brand has since reopened a location in Tucson, Arizona, and is planning additional returns, including Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"673\">Company officials have not announced an opening date.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"837\">The chain was known for its affordable, all-you-can-eat salads, soups and baked goods, and was especially popular with families, seniors and seasonal residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Sweet Tomatoes, the popular salad and soup buffet that closed in 2020, is preparing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,897],"class_list":["post-82166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82166","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=82166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}