Sweetgreen is betting that you want fries with that salad

After a year of development and months of testing, Sweetgreen’s “ripple fries” land in the salad chain’s roughly 250 locations today.  “This is a way to show that you can come to Sweetgreen, eat a salad, and have a little bit of a permissible indulgence around fries,” says CEO Jonathan Neman during an interview at the chain’s Los Angeles HQ. Better known for its healthy salads than starchy sides, Sweetgreen’s embrace of the traditional fast-food staple is also bound to raise...