St. Cloud Was On Crisp And Green's List, Then It Wasn't

As we all know and have heard, we do have quite the abundance of fast food chicken places, car washes and pop up banks in the area. It was very refreshing to hear a couple years ago that we were on the schedule to get a healthy fast food-ish restaurant here in the St. Cloud area. That restaurant was Crisp and Green.

HOW DID WE KNOW THAT A LOCATION WAS PLANNED FOR ST CLOUD

When you visited the Crisp and Green website, you saw what locations were already in place, and also what locations were on the schedule for "coming soon". And St. Cloud was one of the places that said just that - "coming soon".

I kept checking back at the website to see if St. Cloud was still on schedule and maybe they would have more of a time and/or place for the new restaurant. To my dismay, St. Cloud had been removed from the "coming soon" section. What a bummer!

CRISP AND GREEN OPENING A MINNESOTA LOCATION ON AUG 7

Now, with the announcement that Crisp and Green will open their Rogers location tomorrow - August 7th, it got me wondering again "why no St. Cloud location"?

WHY THE DECISION TO NOT OPEN A ST. CLOUD LOCATION

The overview reason that I found after doing a search as to why - this is what I found.

Crisp and Green reallocated its expansion funding and shifted development priorities toward other regional markets, removing St. Cloud from its active rollout after initially listing a planned "coming soon" spot. The brand shifted focus toward new partnerships and targeting different areas, such as the Twin Cities metro, out-of-state expansions, and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois.

Well, that's nice and vague. No real reason as to why they decided to pull the expansion to St. Cloud. Just "reallocated". Well, obviously. Maybe they saw all the new chicken places and decided that St. Cloud isn't interested in any sort of healthy restaurants. I'm kidding, of course, but honestly, you really never know. That could have been the reason. But probably not.

Now, we wait for something similar to come this way.