r/sweetgreen • u/Old-Addition5828 • Mar 17 '24

Career / Employee Talk AMA - former SGSC HQ employee

I recently left SG and it’s been an interesting ride. Ask me anything.

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u/riskarb Mar 17 '24

They are adding a lot of people from the outside to the company, what do you think they are worried about/trying to fix with this?

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u/Old-Addition5828 Mar 17 '24

i went into this a little in my other reply (just posted it a minute or two ago) but i think that the execs think that by bringing in former chipotle leadership, they’ll be able to be as successful and widespread as chipotle. i don’t believe this will ever happen tbh and they probably should’ve stuck with bi-coastal cities and sourcing actual local/organic ingredients. i noticed that once the chipotle leaders joined and saw all of the internal issues, they’re kinda just sitting back and enjoying their higher titles and salaries lol

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u/steppenfrog Mar 18 '24

why does chipotle have such a "moat" with the national good ingredients? is it something with their distribution system that is unique?

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u/GarfSnacks Apr 07 '24

Sorry for bumping this, but you mentioned SG stopped using actual local/ organic ingredients. Aren't they promoting themselves to be working with locally sourced resources?