Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.77
June 16, 2022
…the management and operation of brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardee's, Krispy Kreme, TGI FRidays, and Wimpy in 12 countries. In 1934, Edward Gold was inspired by a Popeye cartoon character and created Wimpy Grills in Bloomington, Ind. The chain has expanded in the U.K., South Africa, and the Middle East. Since 1969, Wimpy has served American fast food in Egypt and Kuwait. It has 16 locations in those countries and plans to launch in the United Arab Emirates this year. Wimpy has been serving hamburgers across the MENA region since the 1970s and revamped its operations in 2021.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.98
July 22, 2022
…PuduBot 2 for indoor deliveries. PizzaHQ last week said it is partnering with Picnic Works to further automate its pizza-making processes. Piestro yesterday said Capriotti's Sandwich Shop will begin a pilot test of its Piestro Pod in its flagship Las Vegas location.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.83
April 10, 2023
…space is becoming more common today—see Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. In the case of Amazon and Kohl's, it's not on the sales side but the returns side. Why would Kohl's allow Amazon users to return items to its stores? Returns helped its foot traffic for buying. How have this evolution and micro-fulfillment affected warehouse processes? Kohli: Robotics and automation can make half their problems go away. As human beings, we think of different brands, but the challenges for warehouse managers are how to manage resources and getting personnel trained on picking and packing. The analogy here is that robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.64
February 12, 2022
…said Amrhein. “A 27-lb. robot the size of a pizza box can maintain two to three football fields per week, as long as the robot isn't trapped in a hole or stuck on a tree limb. Only one groundskeeper is required to manage up to 70 goats per week, or 145 acres, about the size of an average golf course. How are we optimizing them, and what's the human engagement rate?” “It still takes a human to oversee the robots, but what if one human could oversee 50 to 100 of them?” he asked. “Groundskeepers are responsible for beauty, like…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.50
December 06, 2021
…orders.” “For example, there might be 75 orders for pizza between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.,” he said. “You'd need 75 trips with a standard robot; we can cut it by 50%.” RaaS and partnerships The RaaS model can provide immediate benefits for restaurants and retailers, said Vijay. “We keep the barrier of entry low—the more they use the systems, the better,” he said. “Post-COVID labor costs have increased substantially, from $9 per hour to $15 per hour, to $19 per hour by 2022. Labor is not coming back.” Another benefit of the service model is that data sharing is clearly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.33
April 26, 2021
…area around it.” “To use another analogy, a small pizza box is 1 sq. ft.,” he said. “At 2,000 feet-per-second coverage or one weed in 2,000 boxes, the robot could spray an area of four to six boxes rather than the whole area. That's not only beneficial to the bottom line but also sustainability.” The system enables a farmer to control the amount of nutrients sprayed, droplet size, and even distance from the plants by automatically adjusting the volume, pressure, and height of the boom, which is attached to the sprayer and can measure up to 120 feet wide with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.43
March 24, 2021
…we're looking for partners like Lowe's, Home Depot, or Pizza Hut as potential users of the robot,” he said. “So if we're not using the robot at a particular time, maybe someone else can use it to make deliveries to their customers.” “How do you chop away to a core MVP use case that makes good sense?” he said. “Starship is doing a good job of that—they're focused on universities, where you know the landscape and are dealing with more tech-savvy folks.” “FedEx is also testing drones with Google Wing in Christianburg, Va., which is a small town where we're…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.12
September 26, 2019
…“30-minutes or free” standard that used to be a pizza delivery promise. If you could begin deliveries only blocks from your customer's door instead of miles, that time to order completion could be drastically reduced. Again, that's where the idea of local distribution hubs solves e-commerce challenges. When the order starts its journey three blocks away, there's no need to wait until the end of the day for delivery. Rising Cost of Conventional DC Lands We are running out of space for large distribution centers. Major metropolitan areas have for years seen DCs circled around the outskirts, clustered near major…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.54
July 15, 2022
…to Burnstein's point about applications. “Is making salad or pizza the most economical use case?” he asked. “Many of these high-profile redirections reached 'unicorn' status [with $1 billion valuations], but they couldn't meet revenue targets.” “We saw companies getting ahead of themselves and expanding their teams too fast,” he added. “Once certain companies get to be large, they act like sports teams—'I don't just want three midlevel engineers; I want one of the best.'” “We can't control the market, but we can de-risk it. At ffVC, we focus on founder-friendly and accurate valuation,” Mitchell added. “Robotics is a tough industry,…
