Sweetgreen opens automation assisted restaurant in Huntington Beach

Kale Rogers, Sweetgreen director of concept automation, helps out on the counter at the new Sweetgreen location in Huntington Beach on Friday. Sweetgreen’s new fast-casual restaurant in Huntington Beach will bring Surf City patrons plenty of salads, bowls or plates to choose from. The Huntington Beach location, which opened on Dec. 12, is just the second of 224 Sweetgreen eateries nationwide to use what the company calls its “Infinite Kitchen” automated technology. The new Sweetgreen location in Huntington Beach utilizes the Infinite Kitchen technology which assembles salads and bowls, then finished by hand at the counter.