Sweetgreen Just Sold Its Robot Kitchen for $186M — The Future of Food Starts NOW
Right then — big news in the world of salads and silicon. Sweetgreen has officially sold its Spyce robotics division to Wonder Group for a hefty $186.4 million.
Yes — nearly two hundred million dollars… for robots that make bowls. Welcome to the future.
Spyce was created in 2015 by a group of MIT engineers who decided the world needed automated food assembly — because assembling grain bowls manually simply wasn’t science-y enough.
Sweetgreen bought Spyce in 2021 for about $70 million, shut down the original restaurants, and focused on developing the now-famous Infinite Kitchen — an automated system that builds your lunch with precision that would make a Swiss watch nervous.
Today, it’s already running in more than 20 Sweetgreen locations across the United States.
But Sweetgreen has had to navigate shifting economic winds. So, selling Spyce brings in $100 million in cash, plus Wonder stock worth $86.4 million. That gives Sweetgreen room to streamline operations, boost profitability, and continue rolling out Infinite Kitchens nationwide.
Wonder, led by Marc Lore, will take over Spyce’s engineering team and integrate the Infinite Kitchen into its own mission: creating tech-powered kitchens capable of running dozens of restaurant concepts, all from compact robotic hubs.
Here’s why this matters to you — whether you order salads, burgers, tacos, or anything in between:
- Faster food: Robots don’t get tired, distracted, or stuck chatting at the counter.
- More accurate orders: No more “I asked for no onions” situations.
- Lower costs over time: Automation eventually means more affordable meals.
- More restaurant choice in more places, from small towns to busy cities.
This deal accelerates a future where high-quality, consistent, affordable food can be made anywhere, anytime — by kitchens the size of shipping containers, powered by robotics.
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