Sweetgreen

Sweetgreen, Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryRestaurants
GenreFast casual
FoundedNovember 2006; 18 years ago (2006-11)
Founders
  • Nicolas Jammet
  • Nathaniel Ru
  • Jonathan Neman[1][2]
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
U.S.
Number of locations
221 (December 2023)
Area served
California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington
ProductsSalads
RevenueIncrease US$584 million (2023)
Negative increase US$−122 million (2023)
Negative increase US$−113 million (2023)
Total assetsDecrease US$857 million (2023)
Total equityDecrease US$483 million (2023)
Number of employees
6,186 (December 2023)
Websitesweetgreen.com
Footnotes / references
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Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman in front of their Dupont Circle Sweetgreen restaurant, 2014

Sweetgreen (legally Sweetgreen, Inc., stylized as sweetgreen, previously swɘetgreen) is an American fast casual restaurant chain that serves salads. It was founded in November 2006 by Nicolas Jammet, Nathaniel Ru, and Jonathan Neman. In August 2007, they opened their first store in Washington, D.C., three months after they graduated from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.[4]

Sweetgreen's corporate headquarters moved to the Los Angeles area from Washington, D.C., in 2016.[5] As of September 2023, it had 221 stores in operation in 18 states and the District of Columbia.[6][7][8][9][10] The CEO is Jonathan Neman,[11] and the company had over 4,000 employees as of 2016.[12]

  1. ^ Neman, Jonathan (August 30, 2021). "78% of hospitalizations due to COVID are Obese and Overweight people". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on August 31, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2021. 101 comments
  2. ^ Recker, Jane (September 2, 2021). "Sweetgreen Co-Founder Claims "No Vaccine Will Save Us" From Covid—But Salads Just Might". Washingtonian. Archived from the original on September 28, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  3. ^ "Sweetgreen, Inc. 2023 Annual Form 10-K Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 29, 2024.
  4. ^ Witchel, Alex (June 27, 2013). "Inheriting the restaurant gene". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  5. ^ "Sweetgreen to move headquarters to L.A." Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  6. ^ "How these 33-year-olds are taking Sweetgreen from a dorm room start-up to the 'Starbucks of salad'". CNBC. March 13, 2019. Archived from the original on April 12, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  7. ^ "sweetgreen: Order Online". order.sweetgreen.com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  8. ^ "Sweetgreen, Inc 10-Q: Quarterly report for quarter ending March 27, 2022". SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. May 6, 2022. p. 5.
  9. ^ "Salad bar restaurant sweetgreen opens first Michigan location in Oakland County". August 10, 2022. Archived from the original on August 10, 2022. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  10. ^ "Sweetgreen locations".
  11. ^ "Sweetgreen".
  12. ^ "Sweetgreen raises more lettuce to continue expansion". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2016.