Jayleaf has also changed its systems so that it can
supply Sweetgreen with detailed data.
Not exact matches
The company says that in addition to funding expansion, optimizing its
supply chain and tech, the $ 18.5 million will be put towards its «
Sweetgreen in Schools» program that currently reaches 3,000 students across 14 different locations.
Even now, FireFly can't provide enough volume at times, sending
Sweetgreen to a temporary
supplier.
As shown on these pages,
Sweetgreen has already worked with some of its
suppliers to increase their capacities or improve the efficiency of their operations.
Now, as more companies try to tell stories around where their products come from to meet increasingly informed consumer tastes, you can learn a lot from how
Sweetgreen and its
suppliers went from begging a local distributor for arugula to selling Americans on steelhead trout.
The lessons
Sweetgreen and its partners have learned along the way can apply whether your business is a
supplier to bigger companies or one that's trying to set up its own
supply chain.
Each
Sweetgreen location proudly proclaims its transparent, farm - to - table bona fides, with seasonally tweaked menus and chalkboards listing the local farms that
supply many of its salad ingredients.
The payoff: For 76 - year - old Pacific Seafood, which also
supplies large grocery chains such as Kroger,
Sweetgreen is a smaller but important customer.
Sweetgreen's
supply chain counts hundreds of regional growers, producers, and distributors, and has played a major role in its race to achieve national scale.