Mar 14, 2023 / 04:10PM GMT
John William Ivankoe - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division - Senior Restaurant Analyst
Welcome, everyone. We're going to jump right into it. Jonathan Neman is one of the 3 founders, current Chief Executive Officer of Sweetgreen; Mitch Reback, the company's Chief Financial Officer. Gentlemen, thank you so much for coming.
Questions and Answers:
John William Ivankoe - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division - Senior Restaurant AnalystSo let's see. You went public in what was obviously a robust IPO market in the second half of '21, I mean at that point. And I think investors were generally focused on probably what could go right in the business, maybe a little bit more than what could potentially go wrong, which is always interesting to see how waves kind of come back and forth. And certainly, I think just from your stocks movement, a number of things over the past year did not meet your own expectations.
So -- and not to necessarily dwell in the past, but let's think about kind of in the future of putting Sweetgreen on kind of the right