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Awards

• Nation's Resaurant News 2005 - "Hot Concepts!" Winner.
• AOL City Guide Detroit - "City's Best Healthy Dining" 2005
• HOUR Detroit Magazine - "Best Soup" 2002 - 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.
• Voted “Best Comfort Food” by visitors to Citysearch (Detroit.citysearch.com), Detroit’s online city guide, 2003.  The website’s editors also named Zoup! #1 and described it as “soup just like mom makes – if she were to have more than 200 recipes.”
• Named an “Up and Coming Chain Restaurant” by Restaurants and Institutions, October 2002.
• Chosen from hundreds of possible winners as “The Best of Michigan” by Midwest Foodservice News, Sept./Oct. 2002.

Press

• Nation's Restaurant News, (October 2004), Zoup! Stirs Up Growth Plan to Push Chain off Back Burner
• Corp!, (May 2004), Zoup! "Everything Matters"
• The Detroit News, (July 2003), After 5 Years, Zoup! Plans Regional Franchise Push
• Crain's Detroit Business, (June 2003), Zoup! Signs Franchisee in Expansion
• Midwest Foodservice News, (September 2002), The Best of Michigan
• Crain's Detroit Business, (September 2002), Forty Under Forty: Eric Ersher
• Chain Leader, (July 2002), Motor City Soup: Online Ordering Drives Soup Sales at Zoup!
• The Detroit News, (July 2000), Have You Tried Zoup! Yet?