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The salad chain continued to miss analyst expectations.
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The salad chain continued to miss analyst expectations.
Sweetgreen is about two-and-a-half months into its fully automated restaurant in Naperville, Illinois, and one key record has already fallen. The store's restaurant-level margin in June was 26 percent—"significantly" higher than any new location in its first month, said CEO Jonathan Neman. And the brand expects the stabilized margin to be higher going forward. For perspective, sweetgreen's Q2 restaurant-level margin was 20.4 percent. Usually, new units are well below 20 percent in the first month.
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