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Sweetgreen Shares Tumble After Ripple Fries Fail to Thrill
Workers prepare food inside a Sweetgreen Inc. restaurant in Boston.
Photographer: Adam Glanzman/BloombergSweetgreen Inc. is discontinuing its ripple fries, a menu item that it promised customers could “feel good about,” after only five months.
The move comes as the chain booked a second consecutive quarterly sales drop. Shares plummeted 23% Friday in New York for their biggest decrease on record.