Clean Eatz: Healthy, Flavorful and Affordable Meals Made Locally in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach

Clean Eatz originated in 2011 in Wilmington, N.C. and has expanded to 112 franchise locations. The Clean Eatz restaurants offer healthy, convenient, flavorful food at an affordable price. All of their meals are carefully prepared with a balanced ratio of proteins, carbs and fats, without any added sugar, salt, butter or oil. You can choose from premade meals from their in-store “grab & go” refrigerators, custom-made meals in their cafés, or weekly meal plans.

Dylan Richmond joined Clean Eatz in 2016. Born and raised in Charleston S.C., Richmond was working in the fitness industry when Clean Eatz opened their fourth location there. The opportunity to combine fitness with healthy eating sparked his interest. He began by working at the new location and learned every job from Cashier to Kitchen Line Cook. Soon he was running the store as its Manager. He eventually helped open and manage other locations in the Southeast.

His ambition to own his own store led him to Virginia Beach. In August 2018 he brought the healthy, fast, casual dining franchise to the Haygood area. It quickly became one of the highest volume locations for the entire company.

Thanks to their established online ordering system, they survived and thrived during the pandemic by providing customized meals that could be ordered online and safely picked up or delivered.

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In 2021, Richmond took advantage of the company’s offer to expand to Chesapeake and opened a store there in January of 2022. Both of his stores are open seven days a week and serve approximately 6,000 meals weekly.

Historically, the most popular item on his menu is the Mac n Cheese. Since the company encourages innovation and development at a local level, Richmond built on the success of the Mac n Cheese and created his Bourbon Chicken Mac n

Cheese (chicken, penne pasta, and cheddar cheese). It was a hit at all of the Clean Eatz locations and became the best-selling meal across the company during 2023.

Richmond sees an opportunity for expansion into the corporate world where healthy and tasty lunch options are limited. He wants to provide large corporations nutritious lunches for their employees which will also serve to benefit employee health.

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