Hayward, California-based and Indian American-led food prep company Chowbotics is being sold to San Francisco-based DoorDash.
The purchase of the seven-year old company founded by Deepak Sekar promises to help DoorDash expand its fresh meal offerings, according to reports.
Chowbotics makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Sally that can store up to 22 prepared ingredients. Sally uses those ingredients to make up to 65 salads, bowls and other meals at a time, a Feb. 11 Associated Press report said.
Prior to this year, Chowbotics had sold around 125 of its $35,000 robots, mostly to universities, medical centers and grocery stores. But the company said sales jumped during the pandemic as customers looked for touch-free ways to dispense food, the AP report said.
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Automated Salad Station Comes to Reasor s Stores
Three northeast Oklahoma Reasor’s locations now feature Sally, the Fresh Food Robot, an automated salad station, reports
Progressive Grocer. The robot was developed by Chowbotics and offers as many as 22 ingredients freshly prepared daily by Reasor’s deli associates, enabling hundreds of combinations for salads and bowls.
“We are thrilled to be the first to introduce Sally, the create-your-own salad robot, to our community,” said Reasor’s CEO Jeff Reasor. “Sally complements Reasor’s culinary teams by expanding our fresh meal solutions through technology that assembles made-to-order fresh salads and bowls on the spot. In the era of COVID-19, Sally’s proprietary technology has become even more important as it allows for a little if any touching of the ingredients. With Sally, we are offering a better solution that is fresh, safe and fun.”
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