{"id":132921,"date":"2025-08-09T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132921\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:24:09","slug":"california-sandwich-chain-mendocino-farms-expanding-to-chicago-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132921\/","title":{"rendered":"California sandwich chain Mendocino Farms expanding to Chicago \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mendocino Farms, a fast-casual restaurant chain known for its fresh sandwiches and salads, has revealed plans to enter the Chicago market. <\/p>\n<p>In a page on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mendocinofarms.com\/eathappychicago\/?utm_source=fb&amp;utm_medium=social_paid&amp;utm_campaign=120232041694600237-facebook_ct%3Aconversion_ge%3Aillinois_st%3Arivernorth_so%3Anso-preopen_cv%3Aonline_cn%3Amymendo_c1%3Ax_c2%3Ax_jump&amp;utm_content=120232990022570237-image_lg%3Astatic_hk%3Ax_an%3Arivernorth-nso-A_id%3A22158_lp%3Aeathappychicago_c1%3Apreopen_c2%3Amymendo_pr%3Ax&amp;utm_term=120232744546930237-rivernorth-nso-mymendo_ob%3Aprospecting_tt%3Ainterests_dt%3Ax_ge%3Aillinois_br%3Achicago_c1%3Aeathappychicago-lp_c2%3Aconversions-Facebook_Desktop_Feed&amp;hsa_acc=568565174004442&amp;hsa_cam=120232041694600237&amp;hsa_grp=120232744546930237&amp;hsa_ad=120232990022570237&amp;hsa_src=fb&amp;hsa_net=facebook&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;utm_id=120232041694600237&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawMCOBhleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqydFH1wovWJyaWQRMXcxMXJid3M1WGZoM3Y1YXIBHg4NrgsybsnAzA_gJJ2jSIK1zMNDYaVpcsN-KWeJwM0lJhtc-lWhqsJqcEX0_aem_h_GfAZrupRSS_YNj4Uas7w&amp;campaign_id=120232041694600237&amp;ad_id=120232990022570237\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website,<\/a> the California-based chain announced it&#8217;s opening a location in Chicago&#8217;s River North neighborhood in late August and a second restaurant inside Willis Tower in the winter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello Neighbor! Welcome to your new happy place,&#8221; a message on its website read, in part. &#8220;&#8230;We first opened our doors in 2005 as a family business with a vision to offer much more than great food \u2014 20 years, 75+ locations and a few million awesome meals later, we\u2019re bringing our EAT HAPPY vibes to Chicago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The River North location, which will be at 508 N. Clark St., is slated to open on Aug. 26. New customers can sign up for a &#8220;My Mendo&#8221; rewards account online and select Chicago-River North as their favorite location to receive a free entr\u00e9e when the restaurant opens, according to the company. <\/p>\n<p>Mendocino Farms promises to take customers &#8220;on an unexpected culinary adventure with fresh ingredients and fearless flavor combinations&#8221; through its creative sandwiches and salads. While the chain operates dozens of restaurants in California, it has expanded to other states including Colorado, Texas and Washington. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mendocino Farms, a fast-casual restaurant chain known for its fresh sandwiches and salads, has revealed plans to enter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,8364,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-132921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-food-drink","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115001390812526303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}