California Pizza Kitchen to Deploy 1K Automated Kiosks by 2029
The kiosks will use Turbo-chef equipment to cook restaurant-quality pizzas in about 90 seconds, CPK said.
- California Pizza Kitchen announced Friday plans to deploy up to 1,000 automated pizza-making kiosks across 30 major U.S. markets over the next three years through a partnership with T-ROC Global.
- The initiative aims to reverse a years-long decline in restaurant locations; CPK has lost restaurants consistently since 2021, dropping from 167 total locations to 121 by early 2026, per its FDDs.
- Touch-Screen kiosks use TurboChef equipment and "data-driven intelligence" to cook 7-inch pizzas in about 90 seconds, expanding on existing machines already operating at airports including Boston Logan and Atlanta.
- Brett Beveridge, CEO of T-ROC Global, said the partnership combines CPK's brand with T-ROC's nationwide infrastructure to "build a new national distribution channel at a meaningful scale."
- Early deployments target high-traffic venues including universities, hotels, and sports venues, with 15 additional machines planned for several universities by the end of the year.
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This vending machine makes a California Pizza Kitchen pizza in 90 seconds. Now 1,000 could be coming
Tucked in America’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, a California Pizza Kitchen-branded kiosk whips up barbecue chicken pizza; macaroni and cheese; and spaghetti, kung pao or Bolognese, in just 90 seconds. On busy days, travelers order 140 pizzas. Following a small pilot at airports in Dallas and Boston, the restaurant operator announced on Friday it plans to roll out up to 1,000 of these autonomous vending machines over the next …
Serving a pizza in 90 seconds without opening a place is no longer a prototype: California Pizza Kitchen validates an autonomous restoration model with 1,000 machines and leaves a replicable lesson. From a kiosk in Atlanta to 1,000 machines: the data validated by the pilot Let's go to numbers. At Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, the California Pizza Kitchen kiosk already dispatches up to 140 pizzas a day on peak days. The offer includes ba…
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