U.S: “Zipline Collaborates with Chipotle Restaurants for Drone Delivery”

Select guests in the Greater Dal­las area can now have their Chipo­tle Mex­i­can inspired dish­es like bur­ri­tos, bowls, tacos and sal­ads, deliv­ered to their home by Zipline drones in just a few min­utes, reports a press release. The col­lab­o­ra­tion is referred to as “Zipotle’s Ear­ly Access Pro­gram.”

This new deliv­ery option will use Zipline’s fleet of qui­et, zero emis­sions air­craft, to make super-fast, con­ve­nient deliv­er­ies that save cus­tomers’ time and keep orders dine-in fresh. Chipotle’s entire menu is eli­gi­ble for deliv­ery. Ini­tial­ly, Zipo­tle will car­ry orders up to 5.5 lbs and will increase to 8 lbs over time.

The aim is to begin small, but in the com­ing weeks broad­en the ser­vice to a wider Dal­las area.

Curt Gar­ner, Pres­i­dent, Chief Strat­e­gy and Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer at Chipo­tle, com­ment­ed, “Zipo­tle is a quick and con­ve­nient source of deliv­ery that lets guests enjoy our real food from places that are tra­di­tion­al­ly chal­leng­ing to serve, includ­ing back­yards and pub­lic parks.”

He con­tin­ued, “Zipline’s com­mit­ment to build­ing an effi­cient, envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly deliv­ery expe­ri­ence is syn­ony­mous with our mis­sion to cul­ti­vate a bet­ter world.”

How The Ser­vice Works

: Guests in the Rowlett area can down­load the Zipline app on the Apple store or Android store and, if eli­gi­ble, place their Chipo­tle order.

: Employ­ees will place the order into a Zip­ping Point, which allows Zips to autonomous­ly pick up the order for deliv­ery.

: After fly­ing to its des­ti­na­tion, the air­craft will hov­er about 300 ft in the air, while the Zip low­ers to the ground. This droid craft auto­mat­i­cal­ly avoids obsta­cles and gen­tly and pre­cise­ly places the order at the guest’s address.

: The Chipo­tle at 3109 Lake­view Pkwy, Rowlett, Texas will be the first to offer Zipo­tle deliv­er­ies. Zipo­tle will oper­ate sev­en days a week, ini­tial­ly from 12 pm to 8 pm, and will then expand to 10 pm.

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Keller Rin­au­do Cliffton, CEO and Co-Founder of Zipline, added, “You tap a but­ton, and min­utes lat­er food mag­i­cal­ly appears — hot, fresh, and ultra-fast, whether it is for lunch or din­ner. What once felt like sci­ence fic­tion is soon going to become total­ly nor­mal.”

The release explains, “With more than 100 mil­lion com­mer­cial autonomous miles flown to date, Zipline is the world’s largest and most expe­ri­enced drone deliv­ery ser­vice. Today, it oper­ates on four con­ti­nents, makes a deliv­ery some­where in the world every 60 sec­onds, and serves more than 5,000 hos­pi­tals and health facil­i­ties.” 

Chipo­tle has over 3,800 restau­rants in the U.S, Cana­da, UK, France, Ger­many, Kuwait and the UAE. The com­pa­ny has more than 130,000 employ­ees.

For more infor­ma­tion

Zipline.com

chipotle.com

(Top image: Zipline’s drone drop­ping a droid)

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