Chipotle is trying out a new worker who prepares the famous net avocado twice as fast because it currently does.
Mexican grill on Wednesday introduced Autocado, a robot that will probably be tasked with the tedious means of slicing, coring and peeling avocados in front of human hands, then mashing the fruit and adding other ingredients. The new device can delay to 25 kilos of avocados at a time, which could be loaded by a restaurant employee, the corporate said.
The prototype is currently being tested on the Chipotle Cultivate Center in Irvine, California. The corporate plans to test the device in restaurants later this 12 months, reported CNBC.
Chipotle partnered with robotics company Vebu, who worked with certified training managers from Chipotle to learn the way avocados are prepared before serving to customers.
“We’re committed to exploring collaborative robotics to increase efficiency and alleviate the pain of our employees,” Curt Garner, Chipotle’s director of customer and technology, said in a statement.
“The intensive work of slicing, scooping and scooping avocados might be alleviated with Autocado, but we still retain the core culinary experience of hand mixing and handcrafting guacamole to our exacting standards.”
For the time being, it takes about 50 minutes to prepare a serving of guacamole, and the goal is to cut that point in half with Autocado.
“Autocado has the potential to work with members of the Chipotle crew to create the identical delicious guacamole that Chipotle fans love, but more efficiently than ever before,” said Buck Jordan, CEO of Vebu.
Chipotle expects to handle 4.5 million cases of avocados this 12 months, equivalent to greater than 100 million kilos of fruit, the corporate said.