Restaurants are increasingly adopting automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and robots across all areas of operation, but these efforts are not always a surefire hit. A Chick-fil-A in Valrico, Florida, for instance, became one of the most recent restaurants to try drone delivery last week, kicking...
Chipotle wants to test whether robots can prepare its burrito bowls and salads. The fast casual chain announced Tuesday (Oct. 3) it had teamed with automated food service platform Hyphen to test a “cobotic” (short for “cooperative robotics”) “digital makeline.” “Approximately 65% of all Chipotle digital orders are bowls or...
Chipotle is tapping into its $50 million Cultivate Next venture fund to invest in Hyphen, a kitchen automation platform, and Meati Foods, a company making food products from mushroom root. Launched in April, Cultivate Next is designed to make investments into Series B-level companies that...
Funds are pouring in for automated solutions that promise to reduce labor needs at every step of the restaurant supply chain. On the delivery side, Berkeley, California-based sidewalk delivery robotics startup Kiwibot announced in a Thursday (Feb. 17) announcement a contract expansion with food services...
November 24, 2023
Restaurants are increasingly adopting automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and robots across all areas of operation, but these efforts are not always a surefire hit. A Chick-fil-A in Valrico, Florida, for instance, became one of the most recent restaurants to try drone delivery last week, kicking off automated delivery with DroneUp, per the restaurant’s Instagram post. […]
October 03, 2023
Chipotle wants to test whether robots can prepare its burrito bowls and salads. The fast casual chain announced Tuesday (Oct. 3) it had teamed with automated food service platform Hyphen to test a “cobotic” (short for “cooperative robotics”) “digital makeline.” “Approximately 65% of all Chipotle digital orders are bowls or salads, so the cobotic digital makeline has the potential to […]
July 21, 2022
Chipotle is tapping into its $50 million Cultivate Next venture fund to invest in Hyphen, a kitchen automation platform, and Meati Foods, a company making food products from mushroom root....
