Awards & Press

Awards

• Michigan 50 Best 2008 - 2009 – “Top 50 Companies to Watch”
• Fast Casual Magazine January 2008 – “2009 - Top 100 Movers & Shakers”
• HOUR Detroit Magazine – “Best Soup” 2002-2009
• Metro Times October 2007 – “Best of Detroit”
• Fast Casual Magazine January 2007 – “2006 - Top 100 Movers & Shakers”   
• Restaurant Business July 2006 – “The Best of Everything”
• Nation’s Restaurant News 2005 – “Hot Concepts!” Winner
• AOL City Guide Detroit – “City’s Best Healthy Dining” 2005
• Detroit Metro Times – “Best place to get full from liquid-based meals” 2005
• Inc. Magazine’s, Inc. 500 (named Zoup! as #155 of 500 fastest growing private companies in the U.S.) 2003
• The Detroit News readers voted Zoup! as “Best Place for a Hearty Bowl of Soup” 2003, 2005
• Citysearch (Detroit.citysearch.com) voted “Best Comfort Food” 2003
• Restaurants and Institutions magazine – “Named an “Up and Coming Chain Restaurant” 2002
• Midwest Foodservice News – “The Best of Michigan” 2002

Press

• Michigan 50 Best 2008 – “Top 50 Companies to Watch”
• Food & Drink March/April 2008 – “Comfort Food”
• Crain’s Detroit Business July 2, 2007 – “Business Lives Section”
• Fast Casual Magazine June 2007 - “Soups On”
• The Detroit News June 7, 2007 – “Franchise Expansion Simmering at Zoup!”
• Fast Casual Magazine January 2007 – “2006 Top 100 Movers & Shakers”
• Restaurant Business July 2006 – “The Best of Everything”
• Fast Casual Magazine July 2006 – “Zoup! Is Du Jour”
• Nation’s Restaurant News March 2005 – “2005 Hot Concepts! Winner”
• The Detroit News April 2005 – “Zoup! Grows in Steady Steps”
• Nation’s Restaurant News January 2005 “Contender Puts Expansion on Slow Burn, Plans Simmering for 12 New Outlets in 2005”
• Corp! May 2004 – “Zoup! Everything Matters”
• The Detroit News July 2003 – “After 5 years, Zoup! Plans Regional Franchise Push”
• Midwest Foodservice News September 2002 – “The Best of Michigan”
• Crain’s Detroit Business September 2002 – “Motor City Soup:  Online Ordering Drives Soup Sales at Zoup!”
• The Detroit News July 2002 – “Have You Tried Zoup! Yet?”