{"id":6517,"date":"2026-06-10T01:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:30:36","slug":"marc-lores-robots-make-500-burrito-bowls-an-hour-a-human-can-make-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=6517","title":{"rendered":"Marc Lore\u2019s robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45."},"content":{"rendered":"

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An \u201cinfinite bowl-making machine\u201d can make 500 salads, Tex-Mex, and poke bowls with the exact ingredients you want down to the personalized macros you\u2019re tracking in one hour. A human worker can\u2019t compare, according to entrepreneur Marc Lore.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know exactly how many a single person can do, but it\u2019s not going to be more than probably 30 an hour, maybe 45,\u201d said Lore, who spoke at the 25th annual Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen on Tuesday. Lore previously sold two businesses, Diapers.com and Jet, to Amazon and Walmart, respectively, for $3.8 billion before founding food-tech startup Wonder in 2018, where he serves as chairman and CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The automated infinite bowl technology, which Wonder acquired from salad chain Sweetgreen, spins each bowl on a turntable while ingredients drop into place, based on the specs from an online delivery app order. The resulting bowl, said Lore, has \u201cno errors,\u201d so a hungry patron gets exactly what they ordered. Lore said Sweetgreen already runs the infinite bowl tech across 32 locations, and it will land in its first Wonder kitchen next month.<\/p>\n

Lore described Wonder as a \u201cvertically integrated food platform\u201d that owns 26 restaurant brands including a Bobby Flay steakhouse and delivery options that include fried chicken, pizza, Chinese, and Thai food. Wonder also owns and manages the kitchens, and handles delivery after buying GrubHub in a deal valued at $650 million that closed in 2025. By combining all the different brands in a single kitchen, Lore said Wonder can serve geographies and regions that don\u2019t have the population numbers to support larger fast-casual chains like Chipotle or Cava.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With everything included in a single profit pool, Lore claims, the prices are less expensive because the margins don\u2019t need to support both restaurants and delivery companies. A single 10-ounce Bobby Flay steak \u201ccooked to perfection\u201d costs $36 and bowls are under $10, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can stay open until 2 a.m. in the suburbs because we can operate all 26 restaurants with three people late night,\u201d Lore added. One human staffer answers the hotline, another handles finishing the dishes, and the third works the handoff to delivery drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lore wants this business to have an indelible impact on the public company landscape and is pursuing an IPO, something that has eluded him, he told \u201cThe Aisle\u201d founder Jason Del Rey.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to be ready to go public early next year,\u201d said Lore, although the market will likely help dictate the timing of a potential public offering.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lore, who also owns the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx basketball teams, said he wants to builds a \u201clong-standing, legacy business that becomes a household name\u201d with Wonder, and he said it has a competitive moat that AI can\u2019t disrupt. And more machines are on the way. An \u201cinfinite sauce machine\u201d can spin up 500 sauces an hour from 152 raw ingredients, said Lore, and an \u201cinfinite beverage machine\u201d is slated for next year.<\/p>\n

From there, Lore said he expects that some people will want to start their own delivery-based restaurants using Wonder. Through a feature he called Wonder Create, Lore said anyone can describe a concept in an AI prompt like, \u201cbuild me a fast-casual Mexican restaurant for Gen Z, for people that love cycling.\u201d From there, Wonder will output a branded restaurant concept, with its own name, menu, pricing, photos and nutrition information, built on Wonder\u2019s automation in about two minutes. Lore said users can push their concepts live for $10 a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThink Shopify on steroids,\u201d Lore says. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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