Sweetgreen just banned bacon and sriracha from its menus
While many chain restaurants are adding more bacon-wrapped and sriracha-topped items to their menus, Sweetgreen is bucking the trend.
The salad chain announced in a Medium post Tuesday it’s banning bacon and sriracha from the menus at all 50 of its locations, including its six Massachusetts spots.
Why? To “make America healthy again.”
The ban kicked off the company’s campaign to fix America’s “broken” food system by educating “people about the food they’re eating, where it comes from and how to make more informed choices.”
With the new mission, Executive Chef Michael Stebner decided there was no room on the menu for bacon and sriracha.
The hot sauce was cut because of its added sugar content, but it will be replaced with dried chiles. There will be no substitute for bacon.
“Simply put, you can’t be a healthy food business and serve bacon,” the company said in a statement.
But Sweetgreen isn’t just taking items off its menu.
The chain will be adding two new bowls: The OMG Omega Bowl (arugula, spinach, cucumbers, tomato, basil, avocado, roasted steelhead, nori furikake, and miso sesame ginger dressing) and the Hello Portobello (wild rice, shredded kale, beets, sprouts, basil, spicy sunflower seeds, portobello mushrooms, and miso sesame ginger dressing).
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