Eating places
Photograph: Donato’s Pizza
Could 27, 2025
Donatos Pizza will launch its first absolutely autonomous pizza restaurant this June on the John Glenn Columbus Worldwide Airport.
The restaurant, a partnership with Donatos’ sister firm Agápe Automation and expertise agency Appetronix, will likely be positioned earlier than safety in entrance of Concourse B and operated by restaurateur HMS Host, in keeping with a press launch
The robot-operated kitchen is designed to ship made-to-order pizzas 24/7, using superior robotics and knowledge science. The expertise goals to offer a quick and environment friendly service for vacationers, permitting them to observe their pizzas being ready.
“We’re not simply including tech to a restaurant; we’re leaping in with a completely autonomous restaurant,” Kevin King, president and CEO of Donatos Pizza, stated within the launch. “However, most significantly, we will proceed to serve nice tasting abundantly topped pizzas and supply a top-notch buyer expertise that Donatos has all the time been identified for. In a busy airport atmosphere, the place clients are most targeted on catching their flights, we predict the merchandising machine model location will likely be an enormous success.”
Donatos indicated the expertise might doubtlessly remodel meals service in different places the place conventional kitchens aren’t possible, equivalent to hospitals and faculty campuses.
“I am extremely happy with the innovation my dad, Jim Grote, has championed over the previous 62 years,” Jane Grote Abell, government chairwoman of Donatos Pizza, stated within the launch.
“It is in his DNA to continuously search higher methods to ship the identical constant, high-quality pizza we have all the time served. At Donatos, we consider individuals are on the coronary heart of innovation — and this absolutely automated location permits our visitors to take pleasure in Donatos on the run, with out sacrificing the expertise. Extra innovation, extra ardour, and extra alternatives to eat nice pizza — that is what that is all about.”
