Kernel

“So we closed down the two Kernel restaurants after less than a year spent a couple of months you know, retooling, and opened counter service”

“And so the, your question, will robots displace that? I mean, maybe someday, but certainly not Not anywhere in the near future.”

“So you look at my brain on psilocybin from Kernel, you see my patterns before, like the New York to London connection. You see my brain afterwards, and it's exactly what you said. New patterns are emergent. The old ones have quieted down. It's like a new map o…”

“I actually measured my brain at my brain interface company, Kernel. I looked at my brain based upon sleep patterns, and I saw, we saw in my brain, I had less willpower when I had a poor night sleep, when I had less REM and less deep. And so, yes, when you have…”

“No, I was speaking with Chipotle. Of course I have a non-compete in, in place, but I asked them, I said, well, what do you think if I started a plant-based restaurant, have nothing to do with Chipotle or the fast casual format that Certainly something complete…”

“So Guy, I'm not I don't adhere to a plant-based diet. I still eat meat. I still eat fish. But I've noticed over the years I eat less and less meat.”

“So we do all of our preparation, all of the food prep in a central kitchen, and that will service a couple of handfuls of restaurants within a, Five to 10 minute bicycle ride. And we'll put this prepped food into totes and load the totes onto a wagon and pull …”

“And so where a typical fast casual restaurant might have, you know, a dozen folks at peak period Colonel would have three.”

“We can operate out of 800 square feet, where a typical fast casual might be 2500 square feet, and our build-out cost is a lot less.”

“A typical fast casual restaurant will have a grease hood, fire suppression systems, gas lines, grease traps, you know, all of these sort of infrastructure pieces. We don't need any of that.”

“We bought an off-the-shelf KUKA robot. It's a robot that's typically used on assembly lines. They work 24 seven for years. They're very reliable. Of course, we custom program that. We use an impingement oven that we took and modified.”

“I just completed my series a round and raised thirty six million. And so, so, you know, that'll take us through the next couple of years and that will be a lot to open up 15 restaurants.”

“And since we only have three people we'll be able to afford those higher wages. Plus I think our Purpose is bigger than our product. Being able to address global warming, being able to address some of the inequality with pay for folks in, in, in the world of f…”

“There will always be a place, you know, for our teams to operate the kernel model for the foreseeable future, and I'm talking about the next decade at least, right?”

“While hospitality may not be face to face, With the customers, it's providing a really good experience through the app. It's providing reliability on service times. It's making sure that everything that we serve is delicious.”

“What we, at Kernel what we've done is we've built a neuroimaging helmet. Like you said, Sam, you just put it on your head. It takes one minute to set up. It uses light to measure the brain activity.”

“So if you look at the pyramid of measurement, Wearables are like part of the first category. And then you get to biofluids, like blood draws and, you know, urine and whatever else. Imaging is an entirely different quality class. And so if you want to get reall…”

“He put, ah, so they've raised 53 from outside, 54 from his own money.”