Delivery robots are coming to a college dorm near you

Starship Technologies autonomous food delivery robots college campus last mile delivery

If you look up while walking on a college campus, you’ll most likely see a flurry of activity – students riding to class on bikes, athletes zipping around on scooters, Subway sandwiches and Frappuccinos cruising around on miniature delivery robots — hold on, what?

You read that correctly. There’s a new vehicle adding to the traffic of campus corridors: fun-sized autonomous food delivery robots, courtesy of Starship Technologies. The company is adding the University of Illinois Chicago, the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/delivery-robots-are-coming-to-a-college-dorm-near-you

Ghost kitchens accepted into college

Chartwells adding ghost kitchens to college campuses

Ghost kitchens have become the default way to profitability for many restaurants that faced extinction because of COVID-19 restrictions on in-person dining. They drew in both established restaurants as well as a bevy of startups looking to capture the hot meal delivery market.

On college campuses, many dining halls do not allow students to leave the facility with food. That could be changing as Chartwells, one of the largest operators of college campus dining halls, is rolling out ghost kitchens...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/ghost-kitchens-accepted-into-college

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