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Sweetgreen wants to make the country great healthy again by eliminating offerings that Americans love. Beginning today, the District-based salad chain is ridding its menu of sriracha and bacon. The changes are part of the company’s campaign to fix America’s “broken” food system.
While the company changes its menu five times a year, it admits that “for this menu rollout, we went a little further.” The hot sauce packs too much sugar, so it’s being replaced with dried chiles. As for the pork? “Simply put, you can’t be a healthy food business and serve bacon,” the company says.
The new menu also has the addition of portobello mushrooms and sustainably farmed trout, which will go into the company’s “Hello Portobello” and “OMG Omega” bowls, replacing the Avocobbo and Wild Child menu items.
In the coming months, the chain, which has about 50 restaurants across the country, will be “leading conversations around various issues in the food system, from nutrition and economics to transparency,” in order to raise awareness of “the flaws in today’s food system and work together to envision a sustainable future that protects real food.” Purchase an overpriced hat and join them?
