Zipline, a leading drone delivery company, is expanding its footprint in Texas, adding new restaurant and retail partners in the Rowlett area east of Dallas as it builds its aerial network.
Eligible customers can order from brands including Walmart, Crumbl Cookies, Little Caesars, Popeyes and Blaze Pizza, along with local concepts like The Village Coffee by Altara and Torta Shell Taqueria.
The company first launched in Rowlett in August 2025, with early restaurant partners including Chipotle. Since then, its merchant base and delivery coverage widened with service extending to more than 25 locations across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, including parks, a University of North Texas campus and the Rowlett Public Library.
Orders can also be delivered to front yards, backyards or patio—a model built for direct-to-consumer drop-offs rather than traditional doorstep handoffs. Orders are prepared by staff and retrieved by drones from Dropbox, pickup points outside the restaurant.
The expansion builds on growth in the DFW area, where the company reports completing thousands of deliveries per day less than a year after launching operations.
Zipline also took to the air in Houston and Phoenix earlier this year.
“Autonomous logistics is now the backbone of communities, and in 2026 it will become an everyday staple for people across several states in the U.S.,” Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, CEO and co-founder of Zipline, said in a previous press release.
Zipline is among a handful of companies, including Wing, Flytrex, DroneUp and Matternet,making waves in the meal-delivery space with autonomous drone technology.
Flytrex, for example, recently expanded in Wylie, Texas, with Little Caesars. Its new Sky2 drone can carry up to 8.8 pounds, fit two pizza boxes and has a delivery range of about four miles.
As more providers enter the market, the model is shifting from pilot programs to embedded fulfillment infrastructure, with drones operating as another delivery layer alongside traditional couriers.
