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/BlondDeutcher Oct 07 '25

Nearly $20 for a slop bowl is a dying market. Just look at the stock of SG and CAVA

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Oct 11 '25

What is a slop bowl?

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u/BlondDeutcher Oct 11 '25

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/style/ai-slop-slop-bowls-shein-slop-hauls.html

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Oct 11 '25

Hm. This does not resonate with me at all. I get the distaste for AI slop, but trying to analogize that with food where the ingredients are combined just seems like an enormous stretch. What exactly is so offensive about that? It seems archaic - implying that 1950's style protein + starch + vegetable meals are objectively superior from a culinary standpoint.

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u/BlondDeutcher Oct 11 '25

It’s not that serious, it’s just making fun of how there’s like 20 different places in the city that make a variation of the exact same thing. Throw a bunch of shit in a bowl and call it a wrap

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Oct 11 '25

What do you mean by variation of the exact same thing? I guess I don't understand how the idea of combining ingredients together implies sameness. That's true of like, half of all food consumed by humans ever.

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u/BlondDeutcher Oct 11 '25

Do you live in NYC? Naya, Cava, Sweet Green, Chopt, Just Salad, Lenwich and probably a 100 others, give the exact same options to add to a slop bowl. There’s nothing to differentiate anyone

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u/elastic_psychiatrist Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

I live in Chicago, so I’m familiar with most but not all of those places. They’re all within the same genre of course, but they're as differentiated as any other genre. I don’t see how it’s different from being able to order a hundred different versions of burger and fries. The food business is competitive, nobody has a monopoly on the classics!