Overview
American fast-casual restaurant chain deploying the Spyce Infinite Kitchen automated robotic makeline across its stores. Acquired Spyce in 2021 and scaled the Infinite Kitchen to 20+ locations before selling the robotics unit to Wonder Group for $186.4M in November 2025, while retaining a supply and license agreement to continue deployment.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 4 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Founded
Stage
Nationality
Infinite Kitchen fleet
Spyce acquisition
Wonder sale
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Sweetgreen has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)1× joint2 total
Most recent
- Sweetgreen x Spyce2021-08-24with Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)operating
Sweetgreen on the deployment map
View the global map4 verified deployments across 4 regions, newest verified Dec 2024. Explore where Sweetgreen's robots are operating, by place and type.
- operationalSpyce Infinite Kitchen at Chicago →Illinois · verified Dec 2024
- operationalSpyce Infinite Kitchen at Hingham, Massachusetts, USA →North America · verified Nov 2024
- operationalSpyce Infinite Kitchen at New York City, New York, USA →Northeast · verified Jul 2024
- operationalSpyce Infinite Kitchen at Huntington Beach →West Coast · verified Jan 2024
View the full Sweetgreen deployment record →
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Sweetgreen, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What are food service robots and how do they work?
What is Spyce and how did it become Sweetgreen Infinite Kitchen?
Current leadership (1)
- Jonathan Neman Co-founder and CEOSEC-verified
Founders (1)
- Jonathan Nemancofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Sweetgreen.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Sweetgreen in third-party press
Sweetgreen completes sale of Spyce robotics business to Wonder
Wonder acquires restaurant automation solution from Sweetgreen for $86M
'It’s what AI automation looks like when it hits everyday life.' - Sweetgreen Customer Shows How THeir Salad Was Made By A Robot At One Of The Restaurants
Mentioned on (9)
Registry pages whose text names Sweetgreen.
Companies (2)
Robots and products (1)
Deployments (3)
Spyce Infinite Kitchen at Naperville, Spyce Infinite Kitchen at Hingham, Massachusetts, USA, Spyce Infinite Kitchen at Boston, Massachusetts, USA
People (3)
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating · 1 ended
Every company Sweetgreen has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Sweetgreen x Spyce2021-08-24with Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)operating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)1× joint2 total
Timeline
Every recorded move in Sweetgreen’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipSweetgreen x Spyce
2021-08-24Sweetgreen acquired Spyce, the MIT-founded robotic kitchen startup, for approximately 70 million USD in August 2021 to integrate automated cooking technology into its fast-casual restaurant chain. Spyce's Infinite Kitchen technology was subsequently deployed in Sweetgreen restaurants.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 11, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
What is Sweetgreen?
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Is Sweetgreen safe?
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Sweetgreen.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Sweetgreen from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Sweetgreen completes sale of Spyce robotics business to Wonder
Wonder acquires restaurant automation solution from Sweetgreen for $86M
'It’s what AI automation looks like when it hits everyday life.' - Sweetgreen Customer Shows How THeir Salad Was Made By A Robot At One Of The Restaurants
Sweetgreen sells Spyce robotics unit to Wonder for $186.4M
Sweetgreen sells Spyce robotics unit to Wonder for 86.4M
Sweetgreen sold Spyce robotics business to Wonder Group for 86.4M; Infinite Kitchen now in 20+ Sweetgreen locations. 38 Spyce engineers transition to Wonder.
Wonder to Buy ‘Infinite Kitchen’ Tech from Sweetgreen. What’s next?
Sweetgreen opens first drive-thru location with automated makeline
Why Americans are giving up on Sweetgreen
With Spyce acquisition, Wonder takes big step toward more automation
Sweetgreen’s dream of being a tech company is finally dead
Sweetgreen agrees to sell Spyce robotics unit to Wonder
Sweetgreen Sells Restaurant Robotics Arm to Wonder While Continuing Infinite Kitchen Expansion
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/sweetgreen.md
- RSS feed: /companies/sweetgreen/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/36edd3f6-ff67-4f97-bc75-458848f0b312
- Revision history: /companies/sweetgreen/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Sweetgreen against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 4 verified deployments. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 4, 2026