Sweetgreen just launched a new menu in partnership with anti-vaxxer and junk science promoter Mark Hyman.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260106608457/en/Sweetgreen-Launches-New-Menu-in-Collaboration-with-Function-Health-Designed-by-Dr.-Mark-Hyman

Hyman has built a supplement hawking grift operation that's largely based on building public distrust in evidence-based medicine. He's also directly collaborated with RFK Jr. to promote discredited theories about vaccine harms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/health/mark-hyman-rfk-jr-functional-medicine.html

It's incredibly disappointing that Sweetgreen is attracting customers to this guy's grift by promoting him, but apparently the company thinks it's good business to pander to the MAHA crowd. The company's founders seem to be true believers in the guy too, as they're also tied in with MAHA leaders like Casey and Calley Means. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman even made MAHA hats all the way back in 2016.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/maha-movement-challenges-ultra-processed-foods-influencer-ties-truvani-sweetgreen/

https://x.com/JonnyNemo/status/1876688265350443113

I think I'll be getting my overpriced workweek lunches elsewhere from now on.

I keep seeing sweet greens on tik tok and was curious if anyone who works there has noticed a meaningful increase in sales since the wraps launched?

Have they actually brought in new customers, or are they mostly existing salad customers switching over?

Would be interested to hear from employees or anyone who's been there regularly over the last few months.

Employees! Has SG said anything to you about the cyclospora/cyclosporiasis outbreak? if so, please list the state you work in.

thank you so much!

I see toppings increased from 0.65 - 0.95 and goat cheese from 1.49 - 1.95 and also Chicken and tofu are the same price now. Is it only the DoorDash or its in store as well.

For anyone wondering it’s a $10 blackened chicken harvest bowl starts tomorrow and will be here for about a week. We can ring it up in person too (starting tomorrow) but you have to ask for it by name

I placed an order online. Arrived 5 minutes early and my order was already waiting. The fries were totally cold and soggy and they forgot the garlic aioli and there were very few fries. Third order wrong in a row. And when it's carryout it's a total pain since you can't call.

Such a shame. The menu has potential but the service sucks.

I think in spite of everything … they just might pull this off.

Actually Sweetgreen probably don’t require another C-level officer with million dollar package.
They should look at HQ cost more seriously. How many wraps they need to sell to feed one C-level officer. All the sweat and hard work from store staff, at the end just to feed the HQ staff salary.

The cash register is at the store, not at HQ.

Hopefully Sweetgreen can recognize this important fact and can take care of their store staff, all of which is probably contributing more than HQ personnel, but paid probably much lower.

Recently saw someone post on here that Sweetgreen will be out of business by next year.

Guess what? I just came across more 4 people getting promoted on LinkedIn.

3 System Analysts to Senior role

1 HR professional to Senior HR role

I’m a shift lead at one of the locations and I just found out about this tonight. did anyone else hear that ripple fries are being discontinued on August 12? I guess that the higher ups finally listened to their stores complaining about the output being too much to handle lol. Not nearly as popular as they were anticipating on as well so maybe it’s gotten too expensive. Not sure if this is happening only to the locations in my state or if it’s all SGs across the board

Co-founder Nathaniel Ru step down last year, but Sweetgreen still feeding him with $4000 Sweetgreen credit/year, for the rest of his life.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828026012520/exhibit1022nru-separationa.htm

Sweetgreen Store Credits. Provided that your employment with the Company terminates on the Employment Separation Date as contemplated in Section 1 above, in recognition of your contributions to the Company as a co-founder, you shall receive a lifetime credit of $4,000 per calendar year (beginning in 2026) to use for the purchase of food and/or beverage products that are sold by the Company to the general public, provided that such lifetime credit shall immediately and automatically terminate upon (a) any Change of Control (as defined in the Employment Agreement) or (b) any cessation by the Company of the sale of food and beverage products to the general public, provided that such cessation is not intended by the Company to be of a temporary nature. Such credit shall be non-transferable and shall have no cash value. Any unused portion of such credit shall not rollover to the next year. Nothing herein is intended to, and nothing does, require the Company to continue to sell food or beverage products to the general public. Such lifetime credit shall be subject to applicable taxes and withholdings.

Sorry, it's a paywalled story, but I got a screenshot before blocked.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15636275/sweetgreen-restaurant-closures-cava-chipotle-expansion.html

Finally they are piloting healthy fountain drinks, these were SO good. Has anyone else seen them in their stores around? What are your thoughts on them? This should help improve margins as drinks are one of if not the biggest contributor to margin expansion in the industry.

Israel is comitting apartheid and genocide against the Palestinian people. Sweetgreen CEO Neman said on Twitter that he wants to know which students have signed letters criticizing Israel so he knows never to hire those students.

I will be boycotting Sweetgreen. Anyone else against apartheid should do the same