MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sweetgreen, the mission-driven restaurant brand serving healthy food at scale, today announced the opening of its fourth newest sweetlane location in McLean, Virginia, on August 20th, bringing the brand's innovative order-ahead drive-up format to Northern Virginia. Located at Chesterbrook Shopping Center (6220 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, VA 22101), the new restaura...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sweetgreen today announced the Sweetgreen x Fishwife Summer Niçoise, a limited-edition salad developed with pioneering tinned seafood brand, Fishwife. Available nationwide for two weeks only, from August 11 through August 24, the Niçoise-inspired dish arrives with a custom co-branded tin of Fishwife Albacore Tuna with Spanish Lemon for guests to open and add themse...
Traffic to salad chains has fallen as consumers avoid greens due to the ongoing cyclospora outbreaks across the U.S. Dollars sales of prepackaged salads has also plummeted, according to data from NielsenIQ.
As the cyclosporiasis outbreak continues to rage across the United States, salad chains like Sweetgreen are preparing for a significant decline in sales.
For the second quarter ending June 28, Sweetgreen's same-store sales fell 6.2% – its sixth straight decline.
Shares of Sweetgreen slumped 15% in premarket trading on Friday, a day after the salad chain slashed its annual same-store-sales projections as consumers grew wary of fresh produce amid a wide outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the U.S.
As overlapping food-safety concerns continue to sweep up restaurant chains this summer, Sweetgreen on Thursday became the latest to put numbers on the impact.