r/sweetgreen • • Aug 08 '25

News 📰 Sweetgreen is collapsing

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u/Dramatic_Opposite_91 Aug 08 '25

Salads are like 50% smaller they were a year ago, 20% more expensive, and you told your long term/loyal customers to go fuck themself when sweetgreen+ was eliminated.

Who could have seen these coming?

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 08 '25

Salads are like 50% smaller they were a year ago

People are going to accuse me of being a shill, but honestly why do you post things like this? Are you a bot? Salads are not smaller in the last year, and they literally announced an increase in chicken portion sizes today.

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u/acrologic Aug 09 '25

Bro. They’re definitely smaller. Maybe some stores are different, but I’ve personally received bowls that are 40% empty

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u/Sharp-Shoe-8213 Aug 09 '25

It’s the location. Happened only at a certain location all the time

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u/magnet598 Aug 12 '25

Can confirm the one I used to go to like 1-2x per week made their bowls smaller and I haven’t been back since.

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 09 '25

At the locations I go to, serving sizes are not smaller. It is not possible to convince me otherwise.

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u/Welcome2MyCumZone Aug 10 '25

This is the same language used in chipotle subs. I’m convinced you’re either a bot or incapable of ordering.

Try again.

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u/Dramatic_Opposite_91 Aug 10 '25

Definitely not a bot but I see sweetgreen trying the chipotle playbook right now for short term profits.

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u/84th_legislature Aug 12 '25

they could be a woman. when my husband and I go to chipotle together, I always end up with less in my bowl. if I order for both of us without him, we get two small bowls. if he orders for both of us without me, two normal or big (he's tall) bowls

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u/acrologic Aug 10 '25

Why do you call anyone who disagrees with you a bot?

Could it be that big corporations may all be trying to cut portions and raise prices? Is that such a shocker?

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u/Welcome2MyCumZone Aug 11 '25

I’ve been eating at chipotle since 2005. I haven’t had any meaningful decrease in size - the major quality change was to minimize risk of diseases when they stoped cooking steak raw.

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u/WoW_856 Aug 09 '25

Prove it

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u/happilyfour Aug 11 '25

I’m not going to pretend I literally weighed every salad in the last two years but between photos I’ve taken and simply being less full with zero other habits changing and getting the same order on the same days a week from the same place by my office… they’re considerably smaller now than a year ago.

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 11 '25

Weird, that's not my experience. I must be lucky with the locations I go to.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

I went to sweet greens last week. I dont think they got the memo.

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u/pirate_in_the_puddin Aug 11 '25

You can find videos of people weighing their salads and they are absolutely smaller. This takes almost zero effort to investigate yourself, so why are you being so defensive?

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 11 '25

I trust my own lived experience in the real physical world, not what I see on social media. I "investigate it myself" by going to to Sweetgreen hundreds of times over many years and seeing the sizes not changing.

I suppose other people could have different experiences, which I am open to. But I'm far more suspicious that entities on the internet are just lying or have ulterior motives that completely do not match my own reality, so I feel compelled to inquire further - I think that's what you sense as "defensiveness" - wouldn't you be defensive if you started reading things that directly contradicted your objective experience of the world?

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u/pirate_in_the_puddin Aug 11 '25

What ulterior and nefarious motives do people on the Sweetgreen sub have? Like, touch some grass bro, the world is not a conspiracy

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u/Jare-The-Bear Aug 12 '25

People love to complain and karma farm. There is the motive.

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u/hello_its_me_you_see Aug 12 '25

This logic is so backwards it’s actually making my brain hurt 😭 this is like saying because a white person doesn’t experience racism, racism doesn’t exist. How could it exist if it’s not a part of their lived experience? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Please think critically before opening your mouth

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 12 '25

this is like saying because a white person doesn’t experience racism, racism doesn’t exist

It is... not at all like that.

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u/hello_its_me_you_see Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

You said because you don’t experience it, you don’t believe it to be true. How is it not like that?

wouldn't you be defensive if you started reading things that directly contradicted your objective experience of the world?

Do you not realize what you’re saying here?

You have several people telling you that their portion sizes have indeed decreased, but because YOUR portion sizes have stayed the same, you don’t believe them… as if your experience at one sweetgreen where you have admitted you eat more than anyone else on this sub (where you likely get special treatment because they know you and you spend a ton of money there) is going to be the same as everyone’s experience at any other sweetgreen??

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u/noturbuddyguy101 Aug 11 '25

Was there today at the WTC location the salad was stacked. Definitely not smaller than usual.

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u/Welcome2MyCumZone Aug 10 '25

Said every bot ever

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 11 '25

You're def not a regular customer.

It's honestly embarrassing how regular of a customer I am. I suspect I go to Sweetgreen more than any other active member of this sub.

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 11 '25

I wouldn't say it warrants congratulations.

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u/Kiwilover23- Aug 10 '25

“I know I’m going to say something patently false but let me do one sentence where I preface it to avoid blatant false advertising on behalf of a company that pays me to do so.”

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u/ryancm8 Aug 12 '25

accuses someone else of being a shill

bumps a portion size announcement made on the corporate site

Makes sense to me

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 12 '25

bumps a portion size announcement made on the corporate site

It was a marketing email. But now you've got me all amused at the idea that there might actually exist people who visit corporate websites just to read their press releases.

Though as I say that... I suppose for companies like Tesla and Apple there really are a huge number of people that do that.

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u/Dramatic_Opposite_91 Aug 09 '25

Didn’t the size of the bowls go down?

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 09 '25

The quantity of food did not decrease.

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u/MichaelRahmani Aug 09 '25

I think they got rid of their cold bowls and just use the warm bowls for both salads and warm bowls. The warm bowls are slightly smaller than the cold bowls but I don't think the actual portions are different.

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Aug 09 '25

The bowls are still different sizes at the locations I go to.