Saladworks To Open In Bel Air

BEL AIR, MD — Saladworks is planning to open in the Tollgate Marketplace. Once the restaurant is ready to welcome customers for business, it will serve fresh salads, soups, grain bowls and wraps.

The eatery will occupy 2,647 square feet in the shopping center off Baltimore Pike, in the space next door to Firehouse Subs, according to the Tollgate Marketplace leasing brochure. One spot next door, which is nearly 3,000 square feet, is under negotiation, the brochure says.

Bel Air native Amanda Johnson plans to open Saladworks in her hometown in November, according to a franchisee spotlight profile from the company. For the past 12 years she has been working with her father, who is a Burger King franchisee in the area, but she said as a mother of two young children, she wanted to bring a healthier option to Bel Air.

Before the Bel Air restaurant comes online, Johnson will open one restaurant in Cockeysville, which Saladworks reports will be in business Aug. 21 in the York Marketplace shopping center at 10015 York Road. She is planning future locations in Owings Mills and Towson.

Saladworks has been around since 1986. It was intended to present an alternative to fast food options and has reinvented itself over the years, adding bowls filled with ingredients like quinoa to its menu. It operates more than 100 locations around the world.

The Bel Air Saladworks will be at 615 Baltimore Pike in Bel Air.