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At Kernel, your veggie burger will be served by a robot


Kernel only has three human employees on-site at a time.

In many ways, Kernel resembles other restaurants catering to office workers — it’s a vegan fast-casual joint sitting in an unassuming block of Manhattan, nestled between outposts of Paris Baguette and Just Salad. “Traditional fast food restaurants have 8-15 people on staff for the week, which creates a lot of administrative work for managers, so they can’t focus on delivering value to customers,” Black says. Olaaf Rossi, Kernel’s chief technology officer, says the company was mindful of how they designed the entire system, from finding Kuka to choosing the microservice to help keep reheating times consistent.

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