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Meet Sweetgreen -- the 'next Chipotle' Salads, rice and grain bowls have customers lining up
KOTA-TV ^ | July 10, 2015 | Heather Long

Posted on 07/10/2015 1:18:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - When Americans line up for salad, you know there must be something special about it.

That's exactly what's happening at the hot new restaurant chain Sweetgreen. It is already being dubbed the "next Chipotle."

Sweetgreen was founded in 2007 by three Georgetown University friends who had a simple vision: make healthy food yummy, affordable and fun.

"Healthy food shouldn't just be for the top 1%," Jonathan Neman, one of the co-founders, told CNNMoney.

He studied abroad in Australia and was frustrated when he returned to the U.S. and felt his affordable meal options were limited. Just a few months after graduation, he and pals Nicholas Jammet and Nathaniel Ru opened the first Sweetgreen....

(Excerpt) Read more at kotatv.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chipotle; fastfood; food; retail
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The elites want us peons eating rabbit food so there's more Wagyu (Kobe) beef, lobster, sea bass, heritage pork, veal and wild game for them to eat in their posh restaurants and gourmet kitchens.
1 posted on 07/10/2015 1:18:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How is this different from SouperSalad or any of the other salad bars that have been around for about 25 years?


2 posted on 07/10/2015 1:21:14 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmm...first it’s Pink News now it’s rice bowls and salads...what’s going on over there 2cdDiv? :)


3 posted on 07/10/2015 1:22:25 PM PDT by bkepley
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>>The elites want us peons eating rabbit food so there’s more Wagyu (Kobe) beef, lobster, sea bass, heritage pork, veal and wild game for them to eat in their posh restaurants and gourmet kitchens.

Yep. The message is always “eat less, consume less, do less, work more” while the Elites do the exact opposite.


4 posted on 07/10/2015 1:23:34 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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I was thinking that I could go here instead of Chipotle until I read that crap about the 1%. I just can’t win. :p


5 posted on 07/10/2015 1:23:50 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." -Thomas Paine)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I enjoy your food. Could you please spare me your moral self-righteousness AND your shaky scientific marketing claims?


6 posted on 07/10/2015 1:24:07 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s nothing wrong with a good salad. All those things you list can be used as excellent salad toppings.


7 posted on 07/10/2015 1:25:03 PM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
"Healthy food shouldn't just be for the top 1%," Jonathan Neman, one of the co-founders, told CNNMoney.
IOW, Occutards. Won't be eating there, even if I ever see one. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet..
8 posted on 07/10/2015 1:25:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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How is it different? Good question. Do they use organic foods only? Do they grow their own? Do they cater to liberal causes and pay their hired help at least $15 an hour?

As with any other business, the market will indicate whether they can make a go of this. Or if this is so similar to all the soup and salad bar places that there’s no more room for them.


9 posted on 07/10/2015 1:25:34 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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It’s not.
Different name ,promotion etc...
It still is a salad.
And by the way,I think Chipotle is garbage.One cruise through that place and out the door I went.


10 posted on 07/10/2015 1:26:12 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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How can this place make a salad any more "special" than the countless other salad places in that market segment?
I wish them luck, yet their basic marketing premise didn't sound like a concept that would set the industry on fire.

11 posted on 07/10/2015 1:26:36 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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During summer I eat salad and during the winter I eat soup for lunch.

At no time do I eat at places that preach at me.

12 posted on 07/10/2015 1:26:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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They make it for you while you watch and advice. Like Chipotle or Subway. We’ve got a good custom salad place in Tucson, you don’t follow it down the line, but they do chop it up and stir it up real good.


13 posted on 07/10/2015 1:27:27 PM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: mbarker12474

Notice the workers are “peopel of colour” and the customers enjoy white priviledge. I wonder if this company pays its employees $15 per hour.


14 posted on 07/10/2015 1:27:28 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Vegetables are good. My food eats it all them time.


15 posted on 07/10/2015 1:27:31 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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Are you trying to out-weird pissant or that liberal house wife whose name I can’t recall from way-back-when?


16 posted on 07/10/2015 1:29:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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How is this different from SouperSalad or any of the other salad bars that have been around for about 25 years?

Yep. How is this different from pastoral grazing on the fruits of God's freely supplied earthly bounty? How is this different from harvesting vegetables and animals from your farm and field? Both of which have been around since the time Jacob and Esau.

Serve me your nice food. It's good. I'll pay you. Just shut up.

17 posted on 07/10/2015 1:30:18 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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Are you trying to out-weird pissant or that liberal house wife whose name I can’t recall from way-back-when?

Maybe you should calm down and re-phrase that because I have no idea what that sentence is trying to ask.

18 posted on 07/10/2015 1:31:33 PM PDT by bkepley
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anu Jain found bugs in her salad and tweeted about it.AWWWWWW
Guess what Anu, bugs and slugs like their greens.


19 posted on 07/10/2015 1:32:14 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Poofter food...


20 posted on 07/10/2015 1:32:37 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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