The story
Sausalitos was founded by Gunilla und Thomas Hirschberger. The name Sausalitos was inspired by the city Sausalito in California.
In 2014 the founders of Sausalitos sold the company to a private equity investment company called Ergon Capital (now named Apheon).
At the beginning of 2017, there were 37 locations in Germany. Two years later, this number grew to 43 with goals to expand further to all cities in Germany with more than 100,000 residents. As a result of financial decline which had begun during the COVID-19 pandemic, Anton Dürrbeck and Michael Werner filed for insolvency for several of the companies belonging to their group; Michael Schuster from the Munich law firm Jaffé Rechtsanwälte Insolvenzverwalter was appointed provisional insolvency administrator. Schuster has said the current course of action is to keep the restaurants operational while searching for new investors.
From Wikipedia’s article on Sausalitos, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4