Sweetgreen Files For an IPO
Francesca Billington is a freelance reporter. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter for dot.LA and has also reported for KCRW, the Santa Monica Daily Press and local publications in New Jersey. She graduated from Princeton in 2019 with a degree in anthropology.
![Sweetgreen Files For an IPO](https://dot.la/media-library/sweetgreen-introduced-its-first-new-major-menu-category-since-adding-bowls-four-years-ago-u2013-nine-different-plates-ranging.jpg?id=26765647&width=2000&height=1500&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C244%2C0%2C245)
Sweetgreen, the Culver City salad chain that struggled last year, is going public.
The company announced Monday it has confidentially filed for an IPO. Earlier this year, the lunch chain raised $156 million at a $1.8 billion valuation. To date, it's pulled in over $671 million in venture capital.
Terms of the deal aren't yet solidified, the company said in a statement.
Founded in 2007 by college friends, the chain has relied heavily on online orders and is popular with young office workers.
Last April, just weeks after the first COVID-19 shutdown, 10% of employees at Sweetgreen's Culver City headquarters were blindsided by layoffs. Though the company was an early adopter of online ordering, orders on the app reportedly sank soon after the pandemic hit.
"Like all restaurants, Sweetgreen's revenue has been dramatically affected during this unprecedented time," the company's co-founders wrote in a blog post last year.
By July of 2020, the company brought back 75% of furloughed workers, hinted at plans to open 20 locations and introduced its first new menu category in years.
- Sweetgreen Lays Off 10% of Staff at Its L.A. Headquarters - dot.LA ›
- Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman on How It's Adapting to COVID ... ›
- Sweetgreen CEO Deletes Vaccine Hot Take After Backlash - dot.LA ›
- Sweetgreen CEO Walks Back Coronavirus Claims - dot.LA ›
- Winc Makes Disappointing IPO, Stock Price Slips - dot.LA ›
Francesca Billington is a freelance reporter. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter for dot.LA and has also reported for KCRW, the Santa Monica Daily Press and local publications in New Jersey. She graduated from Princeton in 2019 with a degree in anthropology.