Starting in December 2016, fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen stopped accepting cash at restaurants across the U.S. The move was immediately controversial, but it took more than two years for the company to reverse the decision.
On Thursday, the company announced that its six Philadelphia locations will accept old-fashioned paper currency, beginning July 1. By year end, all 94 current Sweetgreen locations will accept cash. (In Boston, where laws already in place prohibit cashless retail establishments, the 15 Sweetgreens never stopped accepting paper currency.) The chain, currently valued over $1 billion, expects to grow to 110 stores by the end of 2019.
