page_title: Sweetgreen
hierarchical_section_title: Sweetgreen
caption_attribution_description: Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York
context_page_description: Sweetgreen is an American fast casual restaurant chain that serves salads. It was founded in August 2007 by Nicolas Jammet, Nathaniel Ru, and Jonathan Neman, three months after they graduated from Georgetown University's undergraduate business school. Sweetgreen's corporate headquarters moved to the Los Angeles area from Washington, D.C., in 2016. As of March 2019, it had 91 stores in operation in eight states across the United States, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, and the District of Columbia. The company has over 3,500 employees.
  In November 2018, it was announced that Sweetgreen had raised US$200 million in funding. Sweetgreen won the 2020 Webby Award for Food & Drink in the category Apps, Mobile & Voice.
context_section_description: Sweetgreen (stylized as sweetgreen, previously swɘetgreen) is an American fast casual restaurant chain that serves salads. It was founded in August 2007 by Nicolas Jammet, Nathaniel Ru, and Jonathan Neman, three months after they graduated from Georgetown University's undergraduate business school. Sweetgreen's corporate headquarters moved to the Los Angeles area from Washington, D.C., in 2016. As of March 2019, it had 91 stores in operation in eight states across the United States, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, and the District of Columbia. The company has over 3,500 employees.
  In November 2018, it was announced that Sweetgreen had raised US$200 million in funding. Sweetgreen won the 2020 Webby Award for Food & Drink in the category Apps, Mobile & Voice.
caption: Sweetgreen Location in the Upper East Side, New York City
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