Sweetgreen, a fast-casual restaurant chain, will open a new restaurant in the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station on Tuesday.
This will be the chain’s third Long Island location, following others in Garden City and Woodbury. A fourth Long Island Sweetgreen will likely be opening in Manhasset early next year.
The new 2,807-square-foot Sweetgreen restaurant at 160 Walt Whitman Road will accommodate 27 diners inside with banquette and bar-counter seating and 14 diners outside on the restaurant’s patio.
For every meal sold on opening day, Sweetgreen, which offers a menu focused on salads and bowls, will donate a meal to Island Harvest to support Long Island families experiencing food insecurity. In addition, the first 100 customers will be receiving Hu Chocolate as a gift with purchase. There will also be a bouquet bar by Hometown Flower Co., as well as seasonal cupcakes inspired by Sweetgreen’s menu from Shae La Vie Bakery, which is owned by local high school student Shae Curtin, both of which are while supplies last.
Publicly traded Sweetgreen was founded in 2007 when it opened its first restaurant in Washington D.C. and now has more than 160 locations. The company reported 2022 revenue of $470 million.
Brian Schuster and Tom Rettaliata of RIPCO Real Estate represented Sweetgreen, while landlord Simon Properties was self-represented in the Huntington Station lease transaction.
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