Local and sustainable restaurant chain Sweetgreen is leaving cash behind in 2017. Becoming one of the first chains to do so, the brand will implement a no-cash policy at all of its locations, which according to the co-founder won’t have a significant impact on business: “Cash has become such a smaller piece of our tender…When we opened nine years ago, it was 40 percent. Now, all stores are between 10 percent and 15 percent.” With one-third of its business coming from mobile, the chain has always embraced the advancements of technology and hopes the change will make them “more like Uber” in terms of speed. (Mashable)
