Sweetgreen's plan after selling the robot — the Sweet Growth Transformation reset

A late-afternoon Sweetgreen pickup shelf with paper bowls lined up under warm overhead lights, the line cooks blurred behind the make-line.

Sweetgreen closed the Spyce-to-Wonder deal at the top of 2026 and printed a Q4 that left no room for ambiguity. The Sweet Growth Transformation Plan is the official frame. The contrarian read: management sold its most differentiated technology asset to buy 12-18 months of runway, and the next two prints will decide whether that was discipline or capitulation.

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