Miso Featured in The Washington Post: The robots are here. And they are making you fries.
Miso Featured in The Washington Post: The robots are here. And they are making you fries.
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The Washington Post’sLaura Reiley and Lee Powell visited the Miso Innovation Lab in Pasadena, CA:
Meet Flippy, Sippy and Chippy, the newest technology stepping in to address a protracted labor crunch in food service
Flippy 2 at the Miso Innovation Center. Courtesy The Washington Post.
At the end of July, a Jack in the Box in Chula Vista, Calif., got a new employee. He stood there for a couple of weeks while other workers swirled around him, jockeying between flattop and fryer, filling up paper sleeves with the tacos that the fast-food brand sells every year by the hundred million.
And then, having learned the ropes, he began to work, focusing exclusively on the fry station, dropping baskets of seasoned curly fries and stuffed jalapeños into vats of oil, eagle-eyeing when they were perfectly golden. He doesn’t take breaks, never shirks when the boss isn’t looking, won’t call out sick or lean heavy on the company health insurance. But that doesn’t mean he comes cheap. Flippy the Robot cost $50 million to develop, and cost Jack in the Box about $5,000 for installation and $3,500 per month for rental.
Crunchbase News’ Joanna Glasner interviewed Rich Hull, CEO of Miso Robotics, to learn more restaurant automation and Miso’s role. With the hospitality industry facing significant
Grant Powell from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, spoke to Miso Robotics‘ VP of Product Development, Alana Abbitt, about how Flippy is transforming foodservice
