Salad restaurant company Sweetgreen said it's purchased Spyce, an automated restaurant with two Boston locations, for an undisclosed price.
According to Boston Inno, a sister publication, Spyce uses robots to prepare its made-to-order bowls of food. "Spyce’s new kitchen is reminiscent of an assembly line with each lane able to be customized to fit certain ingredients," Inno wrote last November.
Culver City, California-based Sweetgreen, founded in 2007, said it's "determining when and where they will introduce Spyce’s technology into its restaurants."
“We built Sweetgreen to connect more people to real food and create healthy fast food at scale for the next generation, and Spyce has built state-of-the-art technology that perfectly aligns with that vision," said Jonathan Neman, co-founder and CEO of sweetgreen, in a statement.
Sweetgreen has more than 130 restaurants nationwide and employs more than 4,300 people. Spyce has two locations in Boston and employs about 51 people.
Earlier this summer, it was reported that Sweetgreen confidentially filed a draft statement for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
