The consumer pushback on expensive lunch salads is benefitting one Los Angeles-based chain: Everytable.
Everytable is a unique 41-unit chain with tiny low-cost storefronts served by a central commissary kitchen. The goal is hyper efficiency to keep prices low, though Everytable uses a sliding scale to determine pricing. A dish might be $6 in a lower-income neighborhood, and $8 in a higher-income area, which helps subsidize food costs.
The concept, founded by Sam Polk, is also built around multiple channels. The chain, for example, provides meals to seniors or homeless shelters, under contract…