Slutty Vegan

Pinky Cole, a former television producer, founded the restaurant in August 2018.[1][2] She intended for it to be a ghost kitchen, where customers would order food online and use a delivery service to get it.[3] Cole started the restaurant because she found that there was no place available to eat vegan food after 9 p.m.[4] She decided to use sex as a theme for her restaurant because of its ability to attract non-vegan customers.[5][4][6] Social media[7] and word-of-mouth[3] was used heavily to promote the restaurant.

It originally started in a shared kitchen, before moving to a food truck several weeks later,[1][6] and later moved to a brick-and-mortar location in Westview on January 13, 2019.[1][2] Two locations were opened in the Atlanta area in 2020.[1] The restaurant is known for its growth despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[1][8] The chain has collaborated with Shake Shack to release plant-based burgers that were available for only one day.[5]

As of January 2023 there is a pending lawsuit over loss wages from an ex-employee.[9]

Locations

Slutty Vegan food truck in Durham, North Carolina in 2020

As of April 2023, the chain has five locations in the Metro Atlanta area and a plant-based bar, Bar Vegan.[4] Cole also recently opened restaurants in Athens and Columbus, Georgia,[10] Birmingham, Alabama,[2] and Brooklyn and Harlem in New York City.[4] There are also plans to open a new location once every month in 2023, in a different city.[2]

The chain has a mobile food truck, which hosts pop-ups at various locations in the South.[2]

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