Column | Bring Sweetgreen home with a crispy rice bowl and spicy cashew dressing
The reason for the trio’s modest expectations: “Back then, a lot of the feedback was like, ‘This isn’t a full meal. I don’t know how many of these [salads] you can have. It’s so niche.’” But along the way, in what Jammet calls “right place, right time,” the company found itself in the middle of a shift in the food conversation led by Michael Pollan, Michelle Obama and the influential documentary “Super Size Me.”Sweetgreen has proved that plenty of people want salad on the regular — if not every...