Simon Jacobs

Overview

Hale and Hearty Soups, New York City's premiere gourmet fast casual restaurant, operates 34 locations in the NYC, Brooklyn and Long Island regions. Staying true to its name, Hale and Hearty offers a menu of homemade soups from scratch, gourmet sandwiches with only the finest ingredients, and fresh tossed to order salads served with homemade dressings. Year after year Hale and Hearty continues to receive favorable reviews not only from New Yorkers but also local & national media as well as the ever-popular Zagat guide.\\The first Hale and Hearty Soups opened in 1995 on 64th Street and Lexington Avenue. We quickly gained a reputation for an outstanding selection of delicious soups. With such great success in our first location, and the plan to open more restaurants, we built our first commissary in the Chelsea Market in 1997. We wanted to make sure that each and every guest in Hale and Hearty would enjoy the same soul- satisfying soup, made with a lot of love. As our company continued to open more retail stores in the city and our Foodservice division expanded, we outgrew our space in Chelsea, and built a much larger facility in Brooklyn in 2008. The Brooklyn Commissary uses state-of-the-art technology that allows us to cook large quantities of soups without sacrificing quality. We use only the freshest ingredients, and our soups are never frozen.\\Hale and Hearty has many more new store openings planned for New York City, and recently expanded to Boston, where we opened our first store in January of 2015.