Chipotle Moves Autocado From Test Kitchen to the Floor

A Chipotle restaurant interior with the makeline visible from the customer side, the prep area behind glass.

Autocado is no longer a lab toy. The Huntington Beach pilot, the Corona Del Mar Augmented Makeline, and Serve Robotics' acquisition of Vebu turn a press-release partnership into an operations program. Five-point-two million cases of avocados a year is the unit-economics ceiling that decides whether any of this works.

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