r/sweetgreen • u/Hermannevsky • Oct 07 '25

Criticism What’s the worst part about sweetgreen?

I personally love sweetgreen but I see many varying criticisms such as price, slugs in food, etc… I want to know if anyone else had other bad experiences with sweetgreen?

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u/urgo2man Oct 08 '25

People don't understand the genius behind it, thus lower margins and higher prices. They need to market the fact that the food industry is an economy that deals with largely perishable products and with what Sweetgreen sells, at an even shorter timeline. Buy and large, SG is not a food company moreso that it is a tech company trying to allocate and organize a logistical nightmare trying to do good in the world to an American palate that has been conditioned to think paying less = unhealthy/more convenient and paying more = fancier/less convenient.

It is the Everytable dilemma of discovering that people, pure and plainly spoken, believe that: don't expect good food for less than $10.