Spyce Kitchen

Spyce Kitchen or just Spyce is a robotic-powered restaurant which prepares food in "three minutes or less".[1]

Spyce
Restaurant information
Head chefDaniel Boulud
Street address241 Washington Street
CityBoston
CountySuffolk
StateMassachusetts
Postal/ZIP Code02201

History

MIT mechanical engineering graduates[2] Michael Farid, Brady Knight, Luke Schlueter and Kale Rogers[3] developed the kitchen using seven autonomous work stations to prepare bowl-based meals using healthy ingredients such as kale, beans and grains.[4] The four graduates wanted to make healthy meals more affordable,[5] so they built the robotic technology[6] and initially served the food to students at an MIT dining hall.[7] The group received the $10,000 “Eat It” Lemelson-MIT undergraduate prize in 2016[8] as one of America's top two collegiate inventors in food technology.[9]

The four then teamed up with chef Daniel Boulud to create the new menu for their restaurant.[10][11] Prices start at $7.50 for an entire meal in a bowl[12] at their first real branch, which opened on May 3, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.[13] Referred to as the "Spyce Boys",[14] the four founders were inspired by their experiences as hungry student athletes on tight budgets. Spyce Kitchen automated cooking units also clean up after cooking and dirtying the cooking apparatus.[15]

Funding

Spyce raised $21 million in series A funding in September 2018, lead by venture capital firms Maveron, Collaborative Fund, and Khosla Ventures.[16]

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References
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  2. "Xconomy: Spyce, MIT-Born Robotic Kitchen Startup, Launches Restaurant: Video". Xconomy. 2018-05-03. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  3. Albrecht, Chris (2018-04-11). "Spyce Kitchen Robot Restaurant Opening This Spring". The Spoon. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  4. "Restaurant keeps its prices down – with a robotic kitchen". newatlas.com. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  5. "Robotic woks are the chefs in this Boston restaurant". Engadget. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  6. "Go to Downtown Crossing for a Meal Cooked by a Robot". Eater Boston. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  7. "When a Robot Makes You Dinner". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  8. "Collegiate inventors awarded 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize". MIT News. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  9. "MIT students invented a robotic kitchen that could revolutionize fast food". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  10. Kolodny, Lora (2018-06-16). "Robots make the food at this Boston restaurant, but the recipes come from vaunted chef Daniel Boulud". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  11. Holley, Peter (2018-05-17). "The Boston restaurant where robots have replaced the chefs". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  12. "In Boston's newest restaurant, all the chefs are robots". Digital Trends. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  13. Muzzi, Madeline. "Watch: Are Grain Bowls Made by Robots the Food of the Future?". Grub Street. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  14. "Restaurant keeps its prices down – with a robotic kitchen". newatlas.com. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  15. "Four MIT graduates created a restaurant with a robotic kitchen that cooks your food in three minutes or less". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  16. Maffei, Lucia (2018-09-07). "MIT-Born Spyce Raises $21M Series A to Open New Robotic Restaurants". BostInno. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
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