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sweetgreen to Acquire Boston-based Spyce to Scale the Future of Healthy Fast Food | Business

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 24, 2021–

sweetgreen, the mission-driven brand serving healthy food at scale, announces today its plans to acquire Spyce, the Boston-based restaurant company powered by automation.

The acquisition will allow sweetgreen to reimagine healthy fast food with even better quality, consistency, and efficiency.

“Spyce and sweetgreen have a shared purpose,” said Jonathan Neman, co-founder and CEO of sweetgreen. “We built sweetgreen to connect more people to real food and create healthy fast food at scale for the next generation, and Spyce has built state-of-the-art technology that perfectly aligns with that vision. By joining forces with their best-in-class team, we will be able to elevate our team member experience, provide a more consistent customer experience and bring real food to more communities.”

Sweetgreen is determining when and where they will introduce Spyce’s technology into its restaurants. The main drivers for the acquisition are:

  • PEOPLE:
    • sweetgreen team members will be able to focus more on preparation and hospitality moments, while having the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology
    • Invest more in training and development to support team members to become Head Coaches. Interested team members will be able to develop technology-facing skills to operate and maintain Spyce technology
  • CUSTOMERS:
    • Generate faster and more consistent orders, creating an even more seamless customer experience and furthering sweetgreen’s position as a forward thinking, fast casual restaurant
    • sweetgreen to further enhance their menu of healthy options beyond warm bowls, salad, and sides, all the while maintaining the same craveability and convenience that
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Entrepreneur explains how she built healthy fast food brand Nuli

Ada Osakwe, founder and managing director of Nuli.

Ada Osakwe, founder and managing director of Nuli.

Ada Osakwe started Nuli as a juice delivery company operating out of her kitchen and delivering to customers via motorbikes. She has since expanded to selling a range of food and drink products in the biggest supermarkets in the country, as well as six cafés between Lagos and Abuja. Osakwe tells James Torvaney about growing the company, the challenges she encountered and the opportunities in the healthy food industry.

Give us a snapshot of your business.

Nuli Juice is a healthy fast-casual dining brand. Our mission is to galvanise healthier lifestyles through fresh, locally grown food.

Our food and drinks are prepared with produce sourced locally from indigenous farmers. For example, fonio stir-fry, cassava waffles, and fruit juices.

We currently have six physical stores in Lagos and Abuja. These are a mix of larger stores – with ample seating space where people can eat, have meetings, and relax – and smaller outlets more focused towards ‘grab and go’ customers. We also provide branded Nuli products to supermarkets and hotels, and manufacture drinks and snacks for other retailers.

What motivated you to start Nuli?

Starting Nuli Juice was an accident – I never set out to be an entrepreneur. After working in finance, I became the senior investment advisor to Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, working on bringing agriculture investment into Nigeria. In this role, I observed how Nigeria was sending over $10 billion every year importing basic items like rice and fish.

The

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