Whois & Analysis for souplantation.com

Souplantation is a United States-based chain of all-you-can-eat buffet-style restaurants.

The first Souplantation opened in 1978 in San Diego, California, where the company is headquartered.

The company was incorporated as Garden Fresh Corp.

in 1983.

The company went public in 1995 but was taken private in 2004.

Outside of Southern California, Souplantation operates under the name Sweet Tomatoes.

The company is owned by Garden Fresh Restaurant Corporation.

A salad bar is a buffet-style table or counter at a restaurant or food market on which salad components are provided for customers to assemble their own salad plates.

Most salad bars provide lettuce, chopped tomatoes, assorted raw, sliced vegetables (such as cucumbers, carrots, celery and green or red bell peppers), dried bread croutons, bacon bits, shredded cheese, and various types of salad dressing.

Some salad bars also have additional food items such as cooked cold meats (e.g., chicken, ham, or tunafish), cooked beans (e.g., chick peas or kidney beans), deviled eggs, cold pasta salads, corn chips, bread rolls, soup, and fresh cut fruit slices.

A buffet (in the UK, in the US, from) is a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners generally serve themselves.

Buffets are offered at various places including hotels, restaurants and many social events.

Buffet restaurants normally offer all-you-can-eat (AYCE) food for a set price.

Buffets usually have some hot dishes, so the term cold buffet (see Smörgåsbord) has been developed to describe formats lacking hot food.

Hot or cold buffets usually involve dishware and utensils, but a finger buffet is an array of foods that are designed to be small and easily consumed only by hand, including cupcakes, slices of pizza, foods on cocktail sticks, etc.

Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with stock, juice, water, or another liquid.

Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth.

Baking is a method of cooking food that uses prolonged dry heat, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones.

The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked.

Heat is gradually transferred "from the surface of cakes, cookies, and breads to their centre.

As heat travels through it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods with a firm dry crust and a softer centre".

Baking can be combined with grilling to produce a hybrid barbecue variant by using both methods simultaneously, or one after the other.

Baking is related to barbecuing because the concept of the masonry oven is similar to that of a smoke pit.