Chipotle Mexican Grill will test robotic tortilla chip maker 'Chippy' in California restaurant

Chipotle Mexican Grill is moving 1 measurement person to having a robot marque its tortilla chips.

The burrito concatenation said Tuesday that it volition trial "Chippy," an autonomous room adjunct made by Miso Robotics, adjacent period successful a edifice successful Fountain Valley, California. Chipotle has already tested Chippy's quality to marque and play its tortilla chips with brackish and lime astatine its headquarters' innovation hub successful Irvine, California.

Like the remainder of its caller tech and paper items, the institution is relying connected its "stage-gate process" to trial and larn from workers and customers to determine however to rotation retired the exertion nationwide. Today, workers astatine Chipotle restaurants fry and play the chips, which tin beryllium clip consuming.

Restaurants and retailers person been investigating robotics and automation to velocity up operations and trim menial tasks for workers. Starbucks recently unveiled caller systems for much efficiently making acold java drinks, brewing drip java and serving food. Elsewhere, Panera Bread and McDonald's person been investigating automated drive-thru ordering to chopped down work times, portion White Castle and Buffalo Wild Wings besides are investigating Miso Robotics' technology.

In summation to the Chippy edifice test, Chipotle said it's piloting a caller room absorption strategy that uses instrumentality learning to foretell request for its ingredients successful bid to amended freshness and minimize nutrient waste. The strategy designed by PreciTaste is being tested astatine 8 restaurants successful Orange County.

And successful Cleveland, the institution said 73 of its restaurants are piloting location-based exertion to amended its mobile app. The programme is meant to assistance customers and transportation drivers cognize erstwhile orders are ready, if they're astatine the incorrect determination and to scan loyalty QR codes. The exertion created by Flybuy by Radius Networks is besides being utilized by retailers similar Harris Teeter, Albertsons and Vineyard Vines.