Sweetgreen Plunges to Record Low as Pricey Menu Add-Ons Misfire

Workers inside a Sweetgreen restaurant in New York.

Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg

Sweetgreen declared that its ripple fries would “redefine fast food.” Made with hand-cut potatoes, salt, potato starch and parsley, they were air-fried in avocado oil and sold as “Fries You Can Feel Good About.”

They lasted five months before disappearing from the menu.