Sweetgreen was started in 2007 by three Georgetown University students.

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Local salad chain Sweetgreen’s quest for world domination (or large, corporate conglomeration) continues apace. The company announced on Tuesday that it’s purchasing Galley Foods, a meal delivery service also local to the District. The purchase marks Sweetgreen’s first-ever acquisition of another company.

“The acquisition of Galley Food represents the next step in Sweetgreen’s evolution from fast-casual restaurant to fully integrated food platform,” the company said in a press release.

The purchase is meant to dovetail with another recent Sweetgreen initiative, SG Outpost, which delivers orders straight to customers and cuts out delivery service middlemen like Uber Eats or Caviar (presumably also a part of Sweetgreen’s transformation into a “food platform”). The CEO of Galley Foods, with his expertise in meal delivery services, is joining SG Outpost as the vice president of logistics.

Galley Foods is a service that brings chef-prepared meals to your door. It’s sort of like Hello Fresh or Blue Apron, except even less work for you—you don’t have to actually cook anything, just heat it up. (DCist named Galley one of the best meal delivery services in the city back in 2017).

The acquisition is the latest proof of just how much Sweetgreen has grown since it was founded by three Georgetown University graduates in 2007. The first salad shop opened up in Georgetown that year, and more than a decade later, it has around 100 locations (projected to be 110 by the end of 2019). Two years ago, it moved its headquarters to L.A. to help along its West Coast expansion. In 2018, it opened up a market called Tavern in the Georgetown storefront where everything began more than a decade ago. This year, it reversed its two-year-strong cashless policy, and began offering five months of paid parental leave for its employees.

Sweetgreen and Galley will remain separate brands and services for now, though Galley will newly be able to make use of “Sweetgreen’s supply chain made up of regional growers, producers, and distributors,” the chain announced.