After its new owners shelved the Zoe’s Kitchen brand, the Mediterranean-style eatery is making a comeback with its original owners.

Joe Cassimus, who expanded his parents’ original Zoe’s Kitchen to turn the Birmingham fast-casual restaurant into a chain with more than 300 locations, is teaming up with his family to bring back the brand founded in 1995.

Cassimus sold Zoe’s Kitchen to Cava, which in turn decided to change all the Zoe’s to the Cava brand of Mediterranean-style restaurants. Only one Zoe’s is currently open in the Birmingham area.

In a Facebook video released Thursday, Cassimus said Zoe’s is returning at its former Crestline Village location in Mountain Brook.

Cava has “given me and my mom and dad the opportunity to resurrect the original Zoe’s Kitchen here in Birmingham, Ala. at the Crestline location to all those fresh, tasty and healthy unique menu items that you love so much,” Cassimus says in the video.

An opening date for the new Zoe’s has not been scheduled, but Cassimus said more details on the opening would be posted to www,zoeskitchenbhm.com.

Founded by Zoe and Marcus Cassimus in 1995, the Mediterranean concept expanded under their son John Cassimus to include additional restaurants in Alabama and Tennessee. Cassimus eventually sold his majority interest in the company and stepped down as its CEO.

Zoe’s Kitchen moved its corporate headquarters from Birmingham to Plano, Texas in January 2013, and in March 2014 the company went public. The chain now has about 250 restaurants in the U.S.

In 2018, Cava bought Zoe’s Kitchen in a deal reportedly valued at about $300 million.

Cava opened its first location in Montgomery last year, along with a storefront in Birmingham at Brook Highland Plaza along the U.S. 280 corridor that was formerly a Zoe’s.