AC Restaurant Group acquires MAD Greens

FORT COLLINS – MAD Greens, a restaurant with two locations in Fort Collins, has been acquired by Coors-family company AC Restaurant Group.

AC Restaurant Group opened its first restaurant in Centennial nine years ago. MAD Greens has a total of 11 locations in Colorado, including on Harmony Road and College Avenue as well as one in Longmont.

Darden Coors, who served as counsel for Einstein Noah Restaurant Group Inc. in Denver, will join MAD Greens as chief executive. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

MAD Greens co-founders Dan Long and Marley Hodgson, which will maintain a minority stake in the company as well as serve in leadership roles, said in a post on the company’s Facebook page that the acquisition will fuel the MAD Greens’ growth.

“It’s a big change for us, but it absolutely does not change our commitment to the future of MAD Greens, a restaurant company that we are proud of and want to build for many years to come,” Long and Hodgson said on Facebook. “This is what we love to do – and new ownership and capital will allow us to do what we love on a broader scale.”

MAD Greens sells salads, sandwiches and soups, and says it gets its ingredients from Colorado farms, bakeries and dairies. The company plans to open additional locations in Colorado, a spokeswoman said.

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