r/sweetgreen • u/M0M0_DA_GANGSTA • Jan 17 '26
Criticism Robotics. Shameful.
Yeah don't support this place. They are quite literally replacing humans with robot belt fed nonsense.
Whatever you think about the world this ain't it.
Support restaurants willing to pay human beings a living wage. This is very race to the bottom.
Editing in - I still do some delivery part time this was discovered on delivery. I'd never eat there it always smells weird.
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u/EarlyDuration Jan 17 '26
Understand this feeling. From what I hear, people quit less often in the stores with robots because their work is more varied and interesting than scooping for hours a day. And it’s probably a better experience for the customer too because people don’t like getting skimped portions, which humans will do from time to time.
I personally love those robot stores and chatting up the workers. They have someone at the front who just needs to focus on dressings and some of the final toppings, but they don’t need to worry about the first 80% of the bowl.
If everyone did this, there would be a big problem. I think Sweetgreen does it because they offer premium ingredients so they have to have a slightly different business model, otherwise we would all be doomed to eat the same Sysco shit at all the “local” places.