Miso Robotics and Chipotle are testing an automated chip-making robot to see if it can keep up with human counterparts and meet the burrito giant’s exacting standards. Dubbed “Chippy,” the chip-making robot will look familiar to Flippy fans. It’s based on the same platform that powers Flippy, the burger-flipping and fry-frying robotic arm. Chippy, however, is slimed down from the typical multiple-fryer outlay and was designed to work with a single fryer as Chipotle restaurants typically only have the one chip-making station. There were some significant tweaks to the platform […]
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A Lime Fresh Mexican Grill franchisee accused Google of using “bait-and-switch” tactics to encourage customers to place orders on third-party delivery marketplaces, depriving restaurants of profitable first-party sales they would have otherwise made.
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DoorDash announced a new small business educational program called the Accelerator for Local Goods.
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Nextbite has hired Michelle Wickham, a 37-year enterprise restaurant executive, as its general manager of operations.
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Two restaurant companies are scaling up their ghost kitchens, and they’re taking some slightly different approaches to make ghost operations fit with their brands. Health-focused WOWorks, the parent company of Saladworks, Frutta Bowls, Garbanzo Mediterranean and The Simple Greek, is rolling out 20 Saladworks locations with Combo Kitchen. Combo Kitchen, itself a franchise, has grown to 170 locations in its first year of business, partnering with franchisees to bring more cuisine types into their restaurants. These 20 ghost kitchens will be inside WingHouse restaurants in central Florida. Under the three-way […]
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Kitchen robotics are having a moment, both in terms of popular interest and investor support. Miso Robotics, the maker of “Flippy 2,” a robotic arm designed to operate a fry station and a handful of other automation products, is monetizing the interest through equity crowdfunding. Over the past two years, the company raised an impressive $50 million from more than 18,000 investors and recently announced another round of crowdfunding, hoping to raise an additional $40 million. The crowdfunding has been done under the Regulation A+ exemption. Sometimes known as a […]
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Serve Robotics announced a new investment from chipmaker Nvidia that deepens the relationship between the two companies and helps speed up growth and development. Nvidia will invest $10 million in the company as a strategic investment. Among investments in the robotic food delivery space, it’s not massive, but it’s important for a few reasons. According to data from investment analysis firm Crunchbase, this represents the largest direct investment by Nvidia in a partner company in the last several years. The next largest is $3.5 million investment in Kore.ai, a conversational […]
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Toronto-based Ghost Kitchen Brands discusses what it means to be a ghost kitchen, and explains their vision for the future.
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Uber Eats is relaunching its Group Ordering with new features that allow friends, family and coworkers to split the bill.
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Grubhub has severed its ties with Yandex Self-Driving Group in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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