Autonomous kiosks serving restaurant-quality hot meals in 2 minutes, anywhere, 24/7.
Confirmed by founderNowCuisine deploys autonomous ZipKitchen™ kiosks that serve restaurant-quality hot, fresh meals in 2 minutes, 24/7. We're targeting locations traditional foodservice can't easily reach, or which often become food deserts at night or on weekends, such as hospitals and 3-shift factories. Our software-centric tech leverages low-cost hardware. Meanwhile, our ops-light business model (customers make the food and restock the kiosks) generates recurring revenue. Our team has done this before: Our CEO brought three distinct 3D printing technologies to market including the first 3D printer, and founded two exited startups. Our CTO pioneered robotic foodservice kiosks and exited to Coca-Cola. Advisors include the founder of Chili's and the director of MIT's leading AI/robotics lab. We've completed our Capital Factory pilot and are preparing to launch in Q4 '26 under a signed contract with a ~$2B national operator. We're raising a pre-seed round (partially funded) to finance early deployment.
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Adam Lloyd Cohen
founder
Charles Studor
founder
Dave Berkus
advisor
Roger Kaplan
advisor
Harold McGee
advisor
Benjamin Lipson
advisor
Dennis Smalley
advisor
Ed Maurer
advisor
Alex Eagle
advisor
Tens of millions of Americans work or live in locations underserved by quality foodservice: Hospitals (24/7, but with an often-closed cafeteria), distribution centers, three-shift factories, and other buildings that can't support a restaurant because of staffing, capital, or space constraints. Existing options force consumers to drive, pay 30–100% delivery markups, or settle for vending machine snacks. Simultaneously, foodservice operators face labor shortages and high costs, leaving tens of billions in addressable revenue unreachable. NowCuisine solves both sides of this equation, addressing a massive, unmet market that traditional foodservice can't economically reach.
ZipKitchen™ kiosks autonomously serve hot, fresh meals in 2 minutes that match the quality of in-restaurant dining. Unlike other kiosks, ZipKitchens provide affordable meals with optimal serving temperatures and textures, 24/7. Kiosks are compact, require no facility or utility changes, and are continuously cloud-connected and monitored.
• Signed a recurring-revenue deployment contract with a ~$2B firm, with a launch in Q4 '26 • Production kiosk operational and running demos • Pilot with Beta kiosk at Capital Factory completed: served meals to paying, often repeat customers • Soft launch garnered strong, positive consumer response • 3 issued patents, plus pending
A ~$2B firm approached us with a huge pain point they're having in providing healthy meals at reasonable cost Their leadership experienced our kiosk meals firsthand, tried our competitors, and chose our solution. We just signed a non-exclusive, recurring revenue contract with them.
The contract covers a pilot with 6-8 ZipKitchen™ kiosks in Q4 '26, then deploying up to 3 (possibly even 7) machines per month. Over the 1st year of deployment, we could see sizeable revenue from this contract alone. When combined with 3 similar enterprise wins, we expect >$4M TTM revenue with positive cash flow in ~2 years.
NowCuisine's new VP has a decades-long career working in the foodservice industry.
Our Production ZipKitchen--with many improvements over the Beta unit we piloted at Capital Factory-- is now up and running, running demos driven by our proprietary software.
Our soft launch at Capital Factory/Station Austin (at the Austin downtown Omni Hotel) was a great success. People were really excited about having affordable, restaurant-quality food at their fingertips, and really loved the food. Video at https://docsend.com/view/wi649qakz4gybq74.
Our first U.S. patent was issued. Within our extensive portfolio we have additional pending U.S. nonprovisional patents and foreign filings.
