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sweetgreen, the mission-driven restaurant brand serving healthy food at scale, will open its first Utah restaurant on September 8 at 2188 Highland Drive, Suite #103, in Salt Lake City's Sugar House neighborhood. In celebration of the grand opening, guests will be able to enjoy exclusive special offerings including an OLIPOP Soda Float Bar featuring local ice cream from The Creamery, alongside a week-long lineup of festivities and exciting local collaborations.
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The new 3,160-square-foot restaurant will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and feature sweetgreen's signature menu of chef-crafted salads and warm bowls, protein-forward plates, and handheld wraps. In addition to fan favorites like the Crispy Rice Bowl and Miso Glazed Salmon, guests can explore sweetgreen’s newest menu innovations, including its lineup of wraps, which bring the brand’s signature ingredients into a more portable format, and the limited-time Fall Harvest menu, featuring the seasonal-favorite Autumn Harvest Bowl, a new Maple Glazed Salmon plate and Roasted Bacon Brussels side.
sweetgreen’s menu is built around fresh, thoughtfully sourced ingredients, prepared daily in an open kitchen. Each restaurant features a source board highlighting the farmers and growers behind the food. In Salt Lake City, sweetgreen is partnering with Nicholas and Company, a nearly fourth-generation, family-owned foodservice distributor, to help bring ingredients from our growers and suppliers to the Sugar House restaurant.
“Opening our first sweetgreen in Utah is an exciting step for the brand as we continue to thoughtfully grow into new markets,” said Ryan Slemons, Chief Development Officer at sweetgreen. “Sugar House is a natural fit for us, with a strong community and a lifestyle that aligns closely with the way our guests think about food and wellness. We’re excited to establish a presence in Salt Lake City and build a long-term relationship with the community as we grow.”
The Sugar House restaurant will feature a large-scale original work by multidisciplinary artist Jason Hackenwerth, whose practice spans painting, sculpture and installation. Hackenwerth previously created the artwork for sweetgreen’s St. Petersburg Edge District restaurant, one of the largest paintings featured in any sweetgreen space. Given the scale of the wall in Sugar House, the team immediately thought of Hackenwerth and his ability to create work that responds to and transforms a space. The new piece was painted acrylic on canvas and will be installed directly on the wall, creating a bold focal point within the restaurant. Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Hackenwerth has exhibited internationally and is a recipient of the 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the 2018 and 2022 Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grants, and the 2024 Palladium Theater Creative Fellowship.
Grand opening festivities kick off Tuesday, September 8, and continue through the week with a lineup of local and Utah-based partners:
*Available while supplies last with the purchase of a bowl, salad, wrap or plate.
The opening will also support WasteLess Solutions, a Utah nonprofit focused on food insecurity. sweetgreen will donate one meal for every meal purchased on opening day, supporting Waste Less Solutions' work to nourish Utahns experiencing food insecurity.
Orders can be placed in-restaurant, online or through the sweetgreen app, where guests can sign up for SG Rewards to start earning 10 points per eligible dollar spent toward personalized offers, perks and free menu items. Full program details are available here.
To learn more about sweetgreen, its menu, and its loyalty program, visit www.sweetgreen.com. Follow @sweetgreen on Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, and YouTube.
About sweetgreen: sweetgreen (NYSE: SG) is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. Since 2007, the brand has reimagined what quick, accessible food can be: fresh, flavorful and built on real relationships with growers. From regional farms to kitchens across the country, sweetgreen serves seasonal, chef-crafted menus across more than 285 locations nationwide, creating spaces where food, people, and purpose come together.
Terms and Conditions:
Limit one promotional item per person, per event. Offers valid in-store only at sweetgreen Sugar House (2188 Highland Drive, Suite 103, Salt Lake City, UT) during opening week, September 8–12, 2026, while supplies last. Guests must make an in-store purchase of any salad, bowl, or plate during the applicable activation to receive the promotional item. Promotional items and activations vary by day and are subject to availability. No substitutions. Offers are non-transferable and have no cash value.
Sweetgreen to Plant Roots in Salt Lake City with First Utah Location Opening September 8
Sweetgreen to Plant Roots in Salt Lake City with First Utah Location Opening September 8
Sweetgreen to Plant Roots in Salt Lake City with First Utah Location Opening September 8
The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday, leading Tehran to respond with missile and drone fire as hostilities flare once again between the two countries. U.S. Central Command said the latest strikes were in response to Iran trying to attack commercial ships and American forces in the Middle East. President Donald Trump offered an additional explanation, telling Fox News in a phone call that U.S. forces struck Iran’s radars.
Iranian state media reported that the U.S. bombed civilian sites along Iran’s southern coast and hit a civilian airport. A U.S. strike hit a home where a wedding ceremony was being held in Kuhestak in southern Iran, killing two people and wounding at least 20 others, Ahmad Nafisi, Hormozgan Province’s deputy governor, told Iranian state television in a phone call.
The U.S. strikes followed others on Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz that abruptly ended a month without military action and threatened to fully reignite an intermittent war that has dragged on for more than six months. The renewed fighting comes after Trump appeared to pivot last month toward punishing Iran economically with sanctions, though on Monday he acknowledged more strikes might be necessary.
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“You have an enemy that has waged a forever war against us,” he said.
When asked whether the new hostilities would be a reason for Congress to hold a formal vote backing the war in Iran, Mast said such a move was “not necessarily” needed.
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The president said in a post on social media that the U.S. was striking targets near the Strait of Hormuz.
“If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings,” he said.
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The U.S. military has tried to cast the renewed fighting as limited.
Central Command said in a statement on X on Monday that its attacks on Iranian targets on Sunday were narrowly focused on preventing IRGC forces from placing new mines in the Straight of Hormuz.
“U.S. forces took limited, precise action against IRGC minelaying forces posing an imminent threat in the Strait of Hormuz,” Central Command stated. “In essence, Iran created the threat and the U.S. military eliminated it to protect civilian mariners, commercial shipping, and the free flow of global commerce.”
Central Command reiterated on Tuesday that its attacks only followed Iranian aggression against commercial vessels and American troops in the region.
The renewed fighting also comes after Trump appeared to pivot last month toward punishing Iran economically with sanctions, with the president promising an “economic D-Day” against a country that has withstood nearly five decades of punishing American sanctions.
The Trump administration argued that it was only a matter of time and that striking the right economic target would get Tehran to its breaking point.
But at the same time, U.S. stockpiles of advanced weapons have been diminishing, while the war has been unpopular among Americans and could make Republicans vulnerable in November’s midterm elections.
The U.S. military says it’s striking new targets in Iran as hostilities flare again after a month without military action.
U.S. Central Command said Tuesday that the strikes “follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.”
On Sunday, the U.S. military said it struck rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by launching missiles at U.S. sites in Jordan, which were intercepted, while United Arab Emirates said it stopped an Iranian drone over its waters.
President Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that more strikes might be necessary.
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The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said it received reports of an attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, and a second report of an incident involving a tanker in waters nearby.
In the first, the UKMTO said a tanker was hit by three projectiles Monday on its way out of the Persian Gulf through the strait east of Oman. The monitoring agency said there were no reports of casualties on the boat or any environmental impact from the attack.
In the second, the UKMTO said it had received a report “involving a tanker and military forces” on Monday off the coast of Oman, also east of the strait. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.
The Strait of Hormuz “is a place where at least 120 ships used to transit every 24 hours. Even if two or three ships manage to pass through on some nights now, that in fact shows that we have control over the entire Strait of Hormuz,” Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said in a video posted on a state TV Telegram channel.
“The information we have — open and covert, visible and hidden — shows us that after failing in the military and diplomatic arenas, the enemy has added a very broad economic war and cognitive war to its military campaign,” Qalibaf said. “The enemy’s objective in this hybrid war is to create unrest and chaos inside the country. That is their malicious intention. ... Or they may try to force us to surrender through diplomacy. Never.”
Scott Bessent said the Strait of Hormuz will be a “worthless piece of water in two years,” after predicting that shippers and other users of the narrow strait will find alternative means of transit as they conduct less and less business with Iran.
The Trump administration launched “Operation Economic Outcast” against the Islamic Republic in August as a means to economically punish the country and encourage other nations to do so.
He made the comments on the sidelines of the G20 Tuesday morning as he spoke with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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