Chipotle Partners with ASAP, Hits 500 Chipotlanes
Chipotle is still on the gas as it opens its 500th restaurant with a Chipotlane, its digital order drive-thru lanes, and outlined a new partnership with regional marketplace ASAP.com. The latest Chipotlane location just opened in Louisville, Kentucky. “We are thrilled...
Miso Sees Mass Market Push for Mass Automation
Miso, best known for Flippy the burger-flipping and fry-frying robot, is coming to Jack in the Box. It’s the latest announcement in what Miso CEO Mike Bell calls a “drumbeat” of new pilots and partnerships. In the mix, Chipotle’s Chippy test,...
Miso Bot ‘Chippy’ Slinging Chips in Chipotle Test
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...
Big Brand Management Talks Ghost Kitchens and Geographic Shifts
When COVID-19 hit, it was clear that things in the restaurant industry were going to change. Many of those changes, such as the rise of delivery, were obvious. But other changes and their knock-on effects would have been harder to predict. “I never thought I’d see the...
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