Kernel

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”