The Death of the $15 Salad
How pizza won the pandemic—and Sweetgreen got left behind
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9 min readNov 10, 2020
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The best meal I had all pandemic cost $1.14 and took about 90 seconds to make. It was a Margherita pizza inhaled in the car on a desolate day in late April. I know the precise cost because my husband is the chef who made it: 61 cents for a few slices of fresh buffalo mozzarella, 24 cents for the San Marzano tomatoes and…
