How Healthy Fast Food Became a Billion-Dollar Business, with sweetgreen Co-Founder Nicolas Jammet

Keeping It Real with Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels | Crossover Media Group

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4.4 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nicolas Jammet, co-founder and Chief Concept Officer of sweetgreen started a salad bar in college with his two buddies because they didn't like the school cafeteria. Now they're millionaires. In this episode, we look at how to make healthy food sexy, and how they built that into a billion-dollar business. And most importantly, how we can change the future of fast food so it saves lives instead of taking them.

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0:00.0	Oh man do I have a treat for you guys. There's a new podcast in town squad and it's called
0:11.4	back in the saddle with Jillian and Janice!
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0:24.8	It's like Happy Hour with your old friends except Janice is sober,
0:28.4	but it's still a great time.
0:30.0	Go to anywhere you get your podcast,
0:32.1	arguably where you got this one, and just search back in the
0:35.2	saddle with Jillian and Janice, and you're ready to have some fun.
0:39.7	Welcome to Keeping It Real Conversations with Jillian Michaels.
0:43.6	Today's conversation is with entrepreneur Nicholas Jemay,
0:47.9	who started a healthy fast food chain
0:51.1	called Sweet Green with his two friends in college. So he's friends with
0:58.4	Casey means, right? Casey was like, have you met Nick, Jimmy? I'm like, no. And she's like, he's one of the
1:05.7	founders of Sweet Greens. And I started doing a little research on this kid. He's not a
1:12.2	kid anymore, but it's a billion dollar salad briss, Cindy.
1:17.0	I certainly wasn't thinking stuff like that when I was in college.
1:20.0	No, no, no, no. But here's the part that I find so interesting about him is that I have thought about that since then.
1:27.3	I'm not, you know, a kid anymore. I have had certainly the knowledge and you would think the access and the opportunity to do such a thing and I have found it extraordinarily challenging.
1:41.0	And I've looked at the landscape of health and wellness and we're definitely in a weird time.
1:48.9	I was giving an interview on Cheddar News the other day when I was in New York and the guys like, do you think that the narrative
1:57.4	and the knowledge around health has evolved or how much has it evolved since your days on biggest loser and I was like it hasn't at all.
2:06.0	And he looked at me like I had three heads.
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