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Pickpad addresses the chaos of restaurant takeout


There was a time when baristas just had to write a customer’s name on a cup and call it out. They wouldn’t always get the name right, but more often than

The product, which was showcased at CES 2025, is a small platform where coffee shops and restaurants place food and beverage when ready for takeout. Founder and CEO Yaro Tsyhanenko told TechCrunch that the system will be offered as part of a hardware as a service (HaaS) package, at a price of $9 to $19 a month per pad. The company is also eying the creation of full shelves that can easily slot into an Ikea bookcase, creating an automated cubbyhole system for order pickup.

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