Salad Rush

About Salad Rush

Salad Rush–The Gold Standard™ is a new concept in fresh, local, nutritious fast food. We combine urban vertical farming, quality products, wholesale and retail models, and pride to produce the best salads and wraps you can find. In addition, our business plan emphasizes local ownership that keeps money circulating in your own community.

Dispersed Production

Salad Rush℠ farmers grow fresh, healthy microgreens and other vegetables, along with certain fruits, hydroponically for delivery to restaurants, commercial kitchens and institutions for use as salads and garnishes.

We define salad as microgreens and assorted other leafy green vegetables typically eaten raw or only heated but not thoroughly cooked, which nutritionists describe as the most healthful way to consume them. Surely, salads may also contain protein, oils and flavorings, but more about that later, too.

The model is simple:

Salad Rush (SR) maintains a comprehensive database of farmers and consumers.
Farmers maintain a list of goods under cultivation and to manage orders.
Consumers place orders and prepare for delivery.
Each type of user has a system view that lets them order, manage and receive their veggies, which makes the grower's work easier and puts a smile on your mom's face.

Starting with microgreens in 2019, clobbered by Covid, and expanding to other CEA-produced vegetables, the company is now a network of local farmers whose produce does not travel thousands of miles to the consumer but rather is grown within a short distance of where it is served and eaten. Produce can also be sold directly to households; more about that later.

SR is currently operating an indoor farm prototype. Its produce is currently distributed to nonprofits and other local institutions. The company's goal is to replicate the system, potentially at hundreds of locations across the USA. A comprehensive model has been developed that shows how growers from a home-based business to a full scale CEA farm can participate.

Healthy Fast Food

Many of our ingredients are grown by selected hydroponic or organic gardeners, such as members of the Evergarden Farms™ network. Others are sourced as locally as possible while maintaining a focus on freshness, flavor and quality. Our role is to speed the pipeline of fresh, locally grown, hydroponic vegetables to your nearby dining establishment, which supplements what we deliver as a part of nutritious meals made to our standards and your taste.

Our Organization

Our Healthy Fast Food business plan offers three types of opportunities for local entrepreneurs: Owner-operated salad shops, hydroponic gardens and catering. We also offer training programs in food technology, gardening and management of related businesses. We've been developing these concepts since 2012.

Salad Rush™ is affiliated with Sustainable Urban Living Institute in the USA (SULIUS), which promotes healthy eating among other interests. Each salad shop, garden or catering operation is a shareholder in SULIUS and contriubutes from product sales of its trademarked Sulius Caesar™ salad. We also work with non-profit organizations in cooperation with Garden of Eden Urban Farming.

We participate in the larger community through a collaborative growing and marketing program. Salad Rush shops and caterers are independently owned and operated, using in large part Evergarden Farm™ brand vegetables provided by in cooperation with SULIUS and its affiliates, and may also operate their own hydroponic gardens either by growing on site or by sharing space with other operators.

Why Salad Rush?

Salad Rush started in Seattle, the "jumping off place" of the 1998 Alaska Gold Rush. Modern life is enriched more by healthy lifestyles than by gold, so we've adopted the rush theme to honor our history while we reflect our times. Why not jump off into a delicious salad today?