Sweetgreen , a restaurant aiming to sell food that’s both healthy and fast to get, opened its Darien Commons location on Tuesday, at 126 Heights Road in Darien Commons.
The menu is divided into Salads, “plates” and “warm bowls,” along with drinks, a single dessert (a “crispy rice treat”) and side dishes like barbecued squash and roasted sweet potatoes.
— an announcement from sweetgreen, with other information from its website
To celebrate opening day of its second Connecticut restaurant, there will be a pop-up with sweetgreen’s local supplier Mike Organics and giveaways from local partners including Darien Flower Shop and Flour Water Salt’s chocolate chip cookies for the kids.
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sweetgreen from the outside
For every meal sold on opening day, the restaurant announced, it will donate a meal to Food Rescue US for people in Fairfield County experiencing food insecurity. Food Rescue US alleviates hunger nationwide by transferring excess fresh food from local businesses to social service agencies serving individuals and families in need.
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sweetgreen from the inside
The 2,376-square-foot location at Darien Commons will accommodate 26 diners inside with banquette seating and 16 diners outside on the restaurant’s patio.
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sweetgreen’s now ready to serve you
The restaurant will also feature a pickup window outside. Store hours are 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Mondays through Fridays and 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays.
Sweetgreen’s website describes the restaurant chain (in part) this way:
“When we were in school, there were two choices: food that was slow, expensive, and fresh—or fast, cheap, and unhealthy. We saw an opportunity to create a business where quality was never sacrificed for convenience. On August 1st 2007, two months after graduating, we opened sweetgreen in Washington D.C., and served our first customers with a vision to reimagine fast food.”
SEE ALSO:
• “In a Burger World, Can Sweetgreen Scale Up?” New York Times (2020) “The chain that made salads chic, modular and ecologically conscious now wants to sell you a lot of other stuff.”
• “How I Built This: Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman,” NPR (2020) “… using new technology to re-imagine the fast-casual model”