Sweetgreen

Operations

Sweetgreen expands menu to include more dinner-worthy plates

Three new hearty plates are making their debut with some new ingredients designed to build sales later in the day, when a salad might not be enough.

Food

Sweetgreen makes the switch to extra virgin olive oil

In a move to upgrade quality, all of the chain’s proteins, veggies and grains will be cooked with EVOO starting Tuesday.

Sweetgreen, Cava and Salad and Go are part of a new generation of chains looking for the Holy Grail of the restaurant industry: Building a national chain of healthy fast-food restaurants. This is how they're doing it.

The chain's two-tiered Sweetpass loyalty program now allows members to earn and redeem rewards in restaurants, rather than just digital orders.

In a complaint filed in New York Supreme Court, 10 plaintiffs described an atmosphere of racial slurs and sexually inappropriate comments, mostly coming from two managers.

This will be the break-even year for the fast-casual chain, the company predicts. CFO Mitch Repack shared details on the strategies that are gaining traction.

Chad Brauze is the new head of culinary and Michael Kotick is leading the marketing team. Both are alums of fast-casual rival Chipotle.

Innovations like the fully automated restaurant and Sweetpass loyalty program are showing early signs of bottom-line results.

So far, the two-tiered loyalty program has been digital only. In the next few months, the loyalty perks will also apply for in-store purchases.

And in other fast-casual highlights from investor conferences: Portillo's is killing it in the Sun Belt, and Potbelly is carrying momentum into 2Q.

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