Initially, Baylis and Miller hired friends and family to develop the business, including a trainer and marketer.

[2] From 2013 to 2015, Sumo Salad partnered with Paleo diet advocate Pete Evans.

[3] In October 2015, James Miller, one half of the pair responsible for starting up the Sumo Salad franchise was found dead by his flatmate, Nasser Elkordi in their Elizabeth Bay, Sydney home.

A key reason given for its move was “legacy debts”, thought to relate to crippling rents the chain has been lumbered with at Westfield shopping centres.

Sumo Salad's core business appears to have failed to find a buyer and been wound up.