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This says it all. > There are also companies like Sweetgreen, the salad company that has tried to position itself as an automation company that serves salads o
by softwaredoug 1y ago
This says it all.
> There are also companies like Sweetgreen, the salad company that has tried to position itself as an automation company that serves salads on the side. Indeed, Sweetgreen has tried to dabble in a variety of tech, including AI and robots
Please just make me a good salad.
- afavour 1y agoBut just making good salad doesn’t make the stock market valuation go brrrr!
- jsheard 1y agoFlashback to when Long Island Iced Tea rebranded as Long Blockchain Corp and their stock price tripled overnight for no sensible reason.
- cess11 1y agoThanks for mentioning it, I had missed that one. Apparently it was an obvious insider hustle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.
- Esophagus4 1y agoAnd then Kodak said, “Wait for me!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin
- thenthenthen 1y agochef’s kiss!
- BrokenCogs 1y ago"You are a three time Michelin star chef. Make me a salad that will convince me salads are tasty! Do not ask questions, just make the salad. Do not give me the salad's background story, just make the salad and feed it to me."
- xhkkffbf 1y agoBlue cheese adds salt and fat. Bacon adds protein and fat and usually salt. Anything after that doesn't matter.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoI think they’re looking at AI and robotics because it is expensive to make a good salad, and consumers won’t buy at the expensive price point. They need automation to work in a big way for their business to succeed
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- mjevans 1y agoI don't need AI for that automation, I need _good robotics that are cheap_.
- rvnx 1y agoThis is the approach of 1X NEO Home Robot, and of Starship Technologies delivery robots. They do the robotics part, and then remotely operate them (though on the paper it is officially "hybrid").
- spwa4 1y agoFor what, actually?
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- pinkmuffinere 1y agoI agree the AI play is dumb. But lots of people are unsolved problems in robotics and think “I’m sure an LLM can do that”. I think sweet green is doing the same
- garciasn 1y agoCrisp and Green say otherwise. Their salads are absurd and absurdly expensive. No; I’m not paying $15+ for a salad. But; plenty of people do.
- afavour 1y ago
- amarcheschi 1y agoYour salad may have a non pre determined amount of olives, vinegar, and tomatoes. The unpredictability of salad composition is what makes our products so unique and loved by people all around the world!* *While on average it's a very good salad, there's a non zero chance that the salad may contain asbestos, plutonium, chalk, antimonium, rubber, NaN, steel rods
- pton_xd 1y agoSweetgreen investing in robotics and AI is central to maintaining US salad making superiority, you see. We don't want to live in a world where we're not a leader in this space.
- Moto7451 1y agoAs an aside that absolutely is not intended to detract from your point, Sweetgreen has always had some sort of “This is what we do but also make salads because money.” Like when they were a lifestyle brand with annual concerts. The first time I went into a Sweetgreen I was very confused by the 10 foot tall poster of Kendrick Lamar performing and promotion for that year’s convention and concert. Could you imagine being offered a ticket to Arbyfest or Jambacon? Like you said, please just make a good salad. I got Google’s DPA update email included a number of Uber’s Model training side gigs and analytic products. I’m guessing this all came out of the Self Driving car project, but it’s another - albeit less goofy - data point of “We’re and AI Company but we do X for money.” I feel like I see a few of these every month. A few years ago Foresquare realized their business model was less profitable than that of the data aggregator they used so they bought the aggregator and basically became that company given the other hooks they have. I sort of wonder if that’s what is running through some of these companies’ C suite meetings.
- vrosas 1y agoIt’s not good but it’s commonplace for every company these days to be a {whatever pumps the stock price/gets us the most VC interest} company that does {original business model} on the side.
- rvnx 1y agohttps://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/how-ai-powered-automated-counting-is-brewing-a-better-experience-at-starbucks/ https://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/how-ai-powered-automa...
- macNchz 1y agoAI, web3, Blockchain, VR, Big Data, Mobile Apps, Social, Cloud, Mashups, Semantic Web, Portals, “put .com after or e before your company name”…
- ethbr1 1y agoThe difference between good CEOs and bad CEOs is how aware they are of the game. Good CEOs say they're a {whatever pumps the stock price/gets us the most VC interest} company, but continue to invest and excel in being a {core competency / original business model} company. Bad CEOs confuse the Kool Aid for water.
- tvaughan 1y ago> Please just make me a good salad. No. > sudo Please just make me a good salad. Ok.
- ponector 1y agoIf there is a success story of icetea company added Blockchain why salad cannot be with AI?