| Spyce | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Owner(s) | Sweetgreen |
| Head chef | Daniel Boulud |
| Street address | 241 Washington Street |
| City | Boston |
| County | Suffolk |
| State | Massachusetts |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 02201 |
| Coordinates | 42°21′28″N71°03′29″W / 42.3579°N 71.0581°W Coordinates: 42°21′28″N71°03′29″W / 42.3579°N 71.0581°W |
| Website | www |
Spyce Kitchen or just Spyce was a robotic-powered restaurant which prepares food in "three minutes or less". [1]
MIT mechanical engineering graduates [2] Michael Farid, Brady Knight, Luke Schlueter and Kale Rogers [3] developed the kitchen using seven autonomous work stations to prepare bowl-based meals using healthy ingredients such as kale, beans and grains. [4] The four graduates wanted to make healthy meals more affordable, [5] so they built the robotic technology [6] and initially served the food to students at an MIT dining hall. [7] The group received the $10,000 "Eat It" Lemelson-MIT undergraduate prize in 2016 [8] as one of America's top two collegiate inventors in food technology. [9]
The four then teamed up with chef Daniel Boulud to create the new menu for their restaurant. [10] [11] Prices started at $7.50 for an entire meal in a bowl [12] at their first real branch, which opened on May 3, 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts. [13] Referred to as the "Spyce Boys", [4] the four founders were inspired by their experiences as hungry student athletes on tight budgets. Spyce Kitchen automated cooking units also clean up after cooking and dirtying the cooking apparatus. [14]
Spyce raised $21 million in series A funding in September 2018, led by venture capital firms Maveron, Collaborative Fund, and Khosla Ventures. [15]
Spyce operated and then shuttered two restaurants in the Greater Boston area. Their first restaurant was located at 241 Washington St in downtown Boston. [16] Their second restaurant, which opened in February 2021, was located at 1 Brattle Square, in Harvard Square. [16]
In 2021, the company was acquired by Sweetgreen, a chain of salad restaurants. [17] [18]
Both Spyce restaurants were closed following the Sweetgreen acquisition, "to focus on developing technology for Sweetgreen restaurants". The downtown Boston location closed October 22, 2021, [1] and the Harvard Square location closed February 18, 2022. [2]
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