The Plano location – located at The Shops at Willow Bend – is the first of many planned for North Texas
Tomato Tamoto, a new fresh, made-to-order salad bar concept, has opened at The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, Texas. At the fast-casual restaurant, guests build their salads in virtually unlimited combinations from more than 50 freshly-cut ingredients, including various types of salad, vegetables, fruits, nuts and cheeses. Tomato Tomoto’s “Salad Chefs” then hand-toss the gourmet creation or roll it up and grill it as a wrap.
“We’re a fresh, healthy alternative to many of the fast-casual restaurants today, particularly within the mall setting. And by allowing our guests complete control over what they put into their salads, we also ensure their satisfaction on each visit,” said Thomas DuBois, CEO and founder of Tomato Tamoto. “We’re doing for salads what Chipotle and Subway has done for made-to-order burritos and sandwiches.” Each salad has a starting price of $7, which includes a choice of several crisp greens, an unlimited selection of veggies, fruits, nuts and cheeses, and tossed with one of the restaurant’s signature dressings. Guests can add chicken and seafood for a small additional charge, including chipotle-aoli or sundried tomato pesto chicken for $2 and grilled shrimp, baked salmon or real crab for $3. Salad wraps are also an option starting at $5, and homemade soups are offered daily for $3. Additionally, Otis Spunkmeyer specialty cookies baked daily are available starting at $1.
About Tomato Tamoto
Tomato Tamoto is a fast-casual, build-your-own-salad restaurant offering a fresh alternative to fast food for today’s healthy lifestyle. The restaurant features more than 50 ingredients including high-quality vegetables, nuts, fruits, cheeses, juicy chicken, always-fresh seafood, homemade salad dressings, daily soup specials, wraps and warm baked desserts. For more information, visit www.tomatotamoto.com.
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ALLEN, Texas, October 27, 2008 – Phase 1 of Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm, a 1.15 million-square-foot mixed-use development located 30 minutes north of Dallas in Allen, Texas, is complete and open-to-the-public. Watters Creek serves as the town center for the 500-acre master-planned Montgomery Farm residential community, currently under construction. The 52-acre project is pursuing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, and, once awarded, will be the largest LEED-certified mixed-use development in Texas.
HOUSTON, October 24, 2008 – Turner Construction Company, the top general builder in the U.S., has hired Gregory L. Rhodes as Manager of Business Development at the firm’s Houston office. In this position, Rhodes will lead business development and marketing activities. Prior to joining Turner Construction, Rhodes was Marketing Manager for a leading international commercial real estate firm, where he served as a member of their national sales team, in addition to overseeing property and development marketing.
DALLAS, October 10, 2008 - Celebrity Café & Bakery is throwing its first ever National Tea Party on Sunday, October 19. Each location will have free cookies, petit fours and tea, and all donations from this day will go directly to Kidd's Kids. Everyone is encouraged to stop by their local Celebrity Café & Bakery from 2 - 5 p.m. for a fun and fancy afternoon tea party!
Each location will have feather boas, jeweled tiaras and other whimsical accessories to help dress up all the little girls in attendance. Additionally, photographers will be on hand to capture the moment and everyone will have the opportunity to purchase those pictures to commemorate this special event.
"We are so excited to host our first-ever National Tea Party," said Chris Mitchell, Director of Operations for Celebrity Café and Bakery. "Two of our top company priorities are to provide quality food and drink options to our customers and to give back to the community. This event accomplishes both - we are providing Celebrity's organic, whole leaf teas and specialty bakery items and donating to Kidd's Kids, a locally-based organization that supports ill and physically-challenged kids. It's a win-win situation."
Kidd's Kids was founded with the hope of making a difference in the lives of terminally and chronically ill children. The dream was to gather families of special needs children together and treat them to a fantasy-filled Walt Disney World vacation. During the five-day trip, these kids and their families enjoy all the excitement that a trip to the Magic Kingdom has to offer. It's the goal of Kidd's Kids and Celebrity to make this a trip of a lifetime. With that in mind, the money donated to Kidd's Kids will help cover all expenses including a chartered jet from DFW to Orlando, hotel, park passes, all meals, transportation while in Florida, souvenirs, special private character visits and so much more!
Celebrity Café & Bakery currently has ten locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, including Addison, Arlington, Colleyville, Frisco, Highland Park, Las Colinas, Preston Royal (North Dallas), Plano, Rockwall and the newly opened Allen store. Addresses are as follows:
ADDISON
Village on the Parkway
5100 Belt Line Rd.
Suite 802
Dallas, TX 75204
ALLEN
Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm
968 Village Green
Allen, TX 75013
ARLINGTON
Lincoln Square
546 Lincoln Square
I-30 @ Collins
Arlington, TX 76011
COLLEYVILLE
5509 Colleyville Blvd.
@ Church Street
Suite 200
Colleyville, TX 76034
FRISCO
3520 Preston Road
@ Warren
Suite 111
Frisco, TX 75034
HIGHLAND PARK VILLAGE
Highland Park Village
Preston @ Mockingbird
Dallas, TX 75205
LAS COLINAS
7979 N. MacArthur Blvd.
@ I-635
Suite 130
Irving, TX 75063
NORTH DALLAS
Preston/Royal Shopping Center
10720 Preston Rd.
@ Royal
Suite 1016
Dallas, TX 75230
PLANO
4709 West Parker @ Preston
Suite 450
Plano, TX 75093
ROCKWALL
The Harbor
2109 Summer Lee Drive
Suite 111
Rockwall, TX 75032
nnual AIDS LifeWalk Approximately 5,000 corporations, civic, religious and neighborhood groups and individuals are expected to participate in this year’s 5K Fun Run/Walk. Following the walk, a festival in Lee Park will take place featuring live music, concessions with food, beer, & wine, vendors, information booths, and a ‘kids area’ complete with a bounce house, balloon clown, face painters, and dunking booths. The LifeWalk raffle drawing will conclude the event. The honorary co-chairs for the 18th Annual LifeWalk are Del Shores and Jason Dottley.
8 – Gay List Daily, a swank e-publication ‘dedicated to making trendy gays even more trendy and gay,’ has launched a new localized Los Angeles edition. Gay List Daily also publishes New York City and Dallas editions, as well as a national “anywhere” edition. Subscribers, who can sign up for free at www.gaylistdaily.com, receive Gay List Daily in their email inboxes every morning (Monday – Friday). Each issue highlights one single item that the publication’s editor and writers think subscribers would enjoy reading about.
HOUSTON, October 1, 2008 - SHW Group, one of the largest educational architecture firms in the U.S., recently won the Rice Design Alliance 2008 Design Charrette thanks to the talented teamwork of the company’s Houston office. SHW’s Houston studio and nine other architecture and landscape firms were challenged to “Stir things up along the Buffalo Bayou” by designing activities and physical solutions to encourage the local community to utilize the 53-mile waterway in Houston. The competition focuses each year on a particular design challenge. This year’s charrette was held in early August by the Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the Rice Design Alliance at the School of Architecture at Rice University.
