The name Sweetgreen comes from froyo (frozen yogurt) and salad — sweet green.
Nicolas Jammet is the co-founder and chief concept officer of Sweetgreen, a health-minded fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 200 locations. In this podcast, Jammet joined Motley Fool host Mary Long for a conversation about:
- The future of automation and eating.
- Creating an “Apple-like” retail experience at a restaurant.
- Sweetgreen’s balance between value and growing to become profitable.
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Nicolas Jammet: We’re like, this guy is creating vegetables from scratch around optimized flavor. Let’s invent a vegetable together and treat it like it’s the greatest new consumer product in the world and drop it with the same marketing campaign.
