Salad-loving foodies are about to get their arugula with a side of automation. Sweetgreen stores are enthusiastically gearing up for an AI overhaul.
Dubbed the "Infinite Kitchen," the chain has been testing a 100% robotic production line that assembles all of Sweetgreen’s orders from start to finish. Prep is still human-orchestrated, as employees make the ingredients, but robots are assembling those ingredients in the bowls. The first Infinite Kitchen prototype opened less than a month ago in Naperville, Illinois, and if it’s any indication of what’s to come, Sweetgreen is thrilled. So far, it isn’t affecting the overall customer experience, […]
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