I got weirdly angry when they threw a bunch of filthy banknotes on the salad

Who's never heard of a sweet green until this video in their life??

The price on the menu: $9.95 After adding anything remotely interesting + tax + tip: $19.95

Sweetgreen is the Starbucks of salads. Overpriced, unoriginal and fast-food like. It’s more about the vibe, the status and the aesthetic than about good-quality, tasty products.

Salads were ever boring only in North America, the rest of the world never had that problem.

“This is what most people consider a salad” Wat “It costs about a dollar” Bruh what *puts the dollar bill on the “salad”* Wtf are u doing?

I love how he begins the video with a clump of lettuce and FOUR croutons and essentially says these were the only "salads" available before sweetgreen.

So many "fast food" restaurants have abandoned affordability. They're like "$20 for lunch is cool, right?" I'm over here trying to find the under $10 option

“they’ve taken a chipotle approach by letting people choose exactly what they want on their salad” oh so you mean a salad bar? that’s been around for decades in every buffet or cafeteria

This video 1% salad 99% sweet green sponsorship

In Greece, we have fancy salads for 3-4$. The prices in us sound so outrageous.

Do you have some videos that get recommended to you constantly, but you usually skip them, and then one day you're really bored, so you decide to go ahead and watch them. For me, this is one of those videos.

14 dollars for a salad. Sounds like eating "healthy" is only for the rich or those poor fools.

Correction - ‘Why Salad Chains Are Everywhere In A Small Area In America’

At the cost of one bowl of salad, I could use that money to buy the vegetables at the grocery store , and have enough for a couple of days

As a cruise ship chef of 12 years. It takes me one look at a sweet green bowl to conclude that the ingredients are probably less than $1. Vegetables are the cheapest ingredients in the kitchen, and since the salad is served raw. They have less labor costs than say a restaurant that has to sautee the vegetables. The whole business model is basically shark businessmen who want 90% profits. And gullible milleneals who are more than happy to let them do it. Learn to cook if you truly want your greens!

There's a new chain in Arizona called "Salad and Go" that has been growing like crazy. Full sized salads for $6. All natural, organic, locally sourced. And they been lowering prices too!

Sweetgreen is so overrated, they're trying to be the cool millennial brand but their prices are prohibitive for most people from the ages of 18 to 25, and it's not even that tasty - one could easily make it at home. There's no innovation with Sweetgreen as there are a ton of similar salad chains, however I applaud Everytable and their founders because what they're doing is truly innovative and unique - bringing healthy food at cheap and affordable prices, I really wish them all the success and I hope it spreads across the US because everyone deserves to eat healthy food at affordable prices, not only the rich and wealthy that Sweetgreen and the other salad chains target.

"Sweetgreen isn't just a restaurant, it's associated with a trendy lifestyle." OH boy.

I'd rather get $10 Poke bowl to be healthy

Eat healthy to stay healthy, not to brag about it.

"How did you know when quarantine had officially broken you?" "I spent a beautiful summer day learning about the history of salad."

I actually worked at one of these places for over 8 months- quit recently for school.. honestly a great job cause like everything’s easy and good pay usually. But yeah I have made like $25 salads cause they add everything imaginable

Sweetgreen has “that” atmosphere. It’s like the Whole Foods of supermarkets. Very particular about their ingredients, and in turn it is quite expensive but it does taste really good

I mean, let’s face it, those aren’t “salads” in the old definition of a salad. These things are whole meals, with grains, protein, dairy, fruits and veggies. “Bowl meals” is a more apt description.

If you’ve never heard of a brand and a channel talks about like it’s always been popular....it’s probably an ad to make you feel like you’re missing out

That price depending on area idea is so good!!

Funny thing is I used to deliver food on my bike and the sweetgreens customers never tipped me as much as the fast food ones

I love sweet green because I get to browse their websites and get great ideas for my lunch. An organic replica of their salad litlery cost me 4 dollars. I went the no organic route and my salad cost me 2.50... did I mention the size was bigger also? Sweet green is a great place to learn how to make your own salad

For the price that Sweetgreen is charging for a salad, I can get two salads at Subway.

Salad is like a regular dish in our daily meals and it seems like we never get bored of salad because we have lots of salad options in Vietnam's cuisine. I recommend you guys check out some simple and affordable salad recipes in Vietnamese style. Just enjoy the meals and stay healthy at the same time 😊

This is the type of content I subscribed for . Thanks !!!

New York is not "everywhere", you know.

The Every table company sounds interesting.

I had an Every Table at my college in LA. It was actually super affordable and tasted good! Was one of the only places on campus I felt comfortable spending money at rather than the Carl’s Jr. or El Pollo Loco on campus.

My school sold salad at the price of the normal food they give, with like 3 times the amount. It was probobly for teachers, but when I learned I could have it... It was so good! Had chicken, boiled eggs, and large packs of dressing too!

With that kind of money, I could go to the local farmers market and get some produce there.

i’m sorry but i am nOt paying 12+ dollars for a meal i could easily make at home. leftover chicken? throw it in! cheese? go ahead! literally they’re so easy to make! i really don’t get it lmfao

Every table made me happy to hear. That’s wonderful

I'm from switzerland and here everything is expensive. But even for swiss standards a salad on the go for 12 dollars is much

$12+ for a salad?? 2020 is officially crazy.

I think Everytable's model is pretty smart. You have to price your product for what the economy will bear in a given area.

It reminded me of Seinfeld when George kept talking about how graceful he is for buying Elaine the BIG salad

Me the whole time watching this video: What the heck is Sweetgreeen? And it's only in a few states. They made it seem like such a big deal.😂

Sweetgreen operates similarly to subway too, where they initially provide healthy choices and popular dishes, people then douse those dishes with extra meat, corn, and sauces. It's still definitely more healthy than say, McDonald's or Wendy's, but eating a salad with 67 garnishes is not the same thing as a chicken caesar. Conclusively, as someone born and raised in NY, I always knew that the main issue with Sweetgreen is the price point. Because only poor people, as per usual have to deal with the repercussions

How hard is it to just toss vegetables and protein into a bowl with dressing? It takes literally 1 minute.

If you live in Phoenix you should go to Salad&Go. All organic ton of toppings and a huge portion all for under $6!!

I tried sweet green once Because it was next to work ..... honestly it was worth every penny. They gave me free focaccia bread, the recipes changed frequently and half the ingredients I would’ve never thought of mixing together & introduced me to parm crisps !! So good. I make my own at home now I’ll go there for flavor inspiration once in a while.

4:50 I got food poisoning from a McDonald's salad in about August/September 2018. I seriously almost died. After I made recovery about 2 weeks later. I did internet search and found many reports McDonald's had a national food poisoning crisis from the lettuce in the salads. The worst part is they knew this and continued to sell the salads. I went back to the McDonald's I purchased the killer salad from to speak with manager and asked him to please stop selling the salad because they are giving food poisoning to people. I showed him my emergency department documents and gave him printout of the news reports. I just couldn't believe he told me that he can't stop selling them. McDonald's knew they were giving people food poisoning and only cared about selling their killer salad. I will never eat a salad from McDonald's again. I don't even go anymore.

You can literally just make a salad at home and bring it with you, boom now you can eat healthy even if you are not wealthy

So this is basically just a giant ad for SweetGreen!

Honestly it scares me how expensive good quality fresh veggies are in the us! Make me a v grateful Brit

Asian: "why aren't those vegetables cooked ? Why pay $12 for raw food ?"

"Vodka is made from potatoes. Potatoes are a vegetable. Vodka is salad."

Really enjoyed this ad for Sweet Green

As someone who's gluten intolerant, it's a lot easier to get salads, so I'm glad their an option, and believe it or not, when it comes to finding things that won't make me sick, they're actually more medium priced. But it would be nice to be able to get a meal for under $15 at some point. So far, in Canada, the only options for that are Thai Express, Taco Bell, and A&W.

When they said the spent that much on salad I thought: "Why aren't they slim?"

First thirty seconds in and I am thinking don’t put that nasty money on the food

I had sweet green for the first time three days ago and I’ve ordered it four times since then. I had it for lunch and dinner today. This is AMAZING

The factors to a perfect salad: greens, herbs, additives like croutons, dressing and protien

For those prices, you could literally just buy the ingredients and make 5x the amount

Lettuce is not the only vegetable we need to eat 😂. It’s actually mostly useless. Eat those fruits and vegetables to level up in life!

Fun fact: Cesar Salad was actually invented in Tijuana, México.

Glad the affordability aspect was highlighted. Great reporting

Random person: "Is that taco salad healthy?" Me: "Of course it is, it's a salad..." *Eating 10,000 calorie taco salad with few shreds of lettuce*

I live in California, and have literally never even heard of a “salad chain” before this video. Panera is the closest thing I guess but their thing is bread

Good video!

Lost 70 pounds over a year literally eating SaladWorks everyday lol i love their salads, and it got me so much healthier!

The fact that some people will pay more than $6 for a salad. 🤦

PROPS TO EVERYTABLE, they sound truly amazing

I remember when I traveled to Miami in transit to Asia. My family decided to take a break outside in the city. We didn't have a lot of money. We were walking on the sidewalks where there was absolutely no people. Just a bunch of cars. And I remember waiting a good amount of time for the light to turn green so we can cross the street. Instead of realizing we had to press the button. We than entered a McDonald's needing something to eat. And we were already worried about the prices. But I remember the joy we all felt when we saw 1$ burgers. Plus the owners gave us coke drinks for free. When they saw with our traveling bags. McDonald's was a life saver back then for all of us because of its prices. But I highly doubt that salad chains will have the same impact for people that we were back then because salads just can't get affordable enough.

I like the approach of Everytable. As far as I can judge it from this video ofcourse!

I worked near a Sweetgreen in NYC and had no kitchen. The salads are so big and filling that I would eat half at lunch and eat half for dinner. They do not allow tipping so knock 2 dollars off the price. 5 dollars a meal in NYC for quick healthy mostly organic food is fine. I would ask for extra bread and it was always givin with a smile. The employees are always cheerful, they must be treated well.

You toss those same ingredients in between bread = sandwich. You cook those same ingredients in a pot = soup. You put the same ingredients in a tortilla = burrito.

I never thought that I will be watching the entire video on the history of salad

Y'all ever hear about My kitchen? I can put whatever i want in my salad and for $12 i can have a weeks worth of salad. 😂

As someone that used to order from Sweetgreens relatively often working in downtown Boston (before getting laid off due to covid)- I can say without a doubt that a large part of the appeal is the ease of fresh, varied meals. When you work in an office 5 days a week, with social/life/work events throughout the week & weekend, fresh veggies you get on a Saturday might go bad before the next week is over, and its also nice to have the variety they offer at Sweetgreens. I can get a kale Caesar one day, an arugula & spinach salad the next, etc. I’d definitely agree that it’s a city thing & a thing largely popular in areas with young-middle aged individuals looking for something healthy, easy, and with lots of options. I could easily pack a basic garden salad every day, but thats not what I want nor what I’m ordering y’know? Also, it might just be a Boston thing, but you’d be hard pressed to find lunch for under $12- whether you got a burger & fries, taco plate, etc. So when salads are on the same price level as unhealthy stuff, its doesn’t feel that crazy to pick the healthier option since you’d be spending the same regardless.

This is why it's hard to eat healthy in America

When i was young there was a salad store in my country called "Salad Days", it was ahead of its time. It had a good run but i think they'll do better nowadays.

I eat something very similar every work night. They’re called “California Bowls” and in 2017, when I was first getting into workout/CrossFit culture, these were ubiquitous. They’re 1 cup of grains or rice, 2/3cup main protein, 2 cups cookable slaw, 1/2 cup of roasted veg, nuts and seeds plus a dressing; I also add 1.5 cups of cooked lentils since I can’t stand nor afford protein powder. I can feel my muscles being nourished when I eat it. It’s exactly what anybody who is active and healthy could need after a long day

Donno why I'm watching this, I don't even eat salads

I live in the uk and salad are considered still as like a average ceaser salad or a cous cous salad and I LOVE them

In indonesia we have a local salad type meal called gado2 and it costs 1 dollar lol...

thanks !

Me getting triggered about why he is mixing money with food ..money could contain viruses

They literally explained why their prices are so high and then just threw “tHeY nEeD tO mAkE iT mOrE aCcEsIbLe” ....

Stable video 👍

Salad and Go is a good, cheap alternative. Just opening their first store in Dallas, but from AZ mostly.

0:59 Caeser salad has nothing to do with Julius Caeser. It was invented in Mexico by a dude named Caeser.

Growing up broke, I was always confused why a salad cost so much but I could get 5 cheeseburgers for a lil over $5 at Mcdonalds. I think they just want us to die faster.

Man the $12 salad like that I can buy at a price of $3, and there are even promotions I can sometimes buy for $1.5.

Never heard of any of these salad chains, but we got a place with similar prices (~12$) in my Southern city

Jell-O salad 🤮🤢

You can buy a lot of prepackaged full meal salads in the Netherlands for 3 - 5 euros a meal.

Haha, the grocery store salad bar is a tasty and cheap choice where I work (so long as you don’t make it too heavy)

It's just like Starbucks. Americans wanted "exclusivity" so now we have coffee with insane markups that not everyone can sustainably afford to buy. It's really sad. I wish people would choose to see value in the product and not the high price... It's such an age where everyone would be able to experience these things.

I have never heard of sweet greens and these salad restaurants until now...

1:10 When grandparents said they were bringing "salad" it was usually of one of these varieties. Especially Jello salad lol

Most interesting. I live in a small city in the UK, and I remember using a salad-bar next door to the department-store where I worked. I could only afford it once a week - I think I was paying the equivalent of around 5-6 bucks (5 years ago). Well, it didn't last long. It went out of business. Bottom line: fresh food IS expensive however it's done. 😏

0:02 the saddest "salad" my eyes have ever been forced to see