Tropical Smoothie Café adds Beyond Meat’s ‘chicken’

Atlanta-based Tropical Smoothie Café will become the first national restaurant chain to offer a Los Angeles-based company’s plant-based, chicken-free products on the menu.

Whole Foods began selling Beyond Meat’s products last year, and it is the only retailer with the brand on its shelves in metro Atlanta. Beyond Meat says its products - a soy and pea protein blend - look, taste and chew just like chicken.

Tropical Smoothie Café, which has only a few locations in Georgia, but 338 across the country, said customers can replace any chicken item with the chicken-free strips at no extra charge.