KAIKAKU.AI

Founded by a serial food and technology entrepreneur, the former Head of Ocado 10x + Head of Engineering of Autonomous Vehicles, and UK’s youngest and fastest promoted McDonald’s Crew Trainer turned LSE-dropout, KAIKAKIU aims automate the boring and streamline the “human” parts of food service using robotics.

To realize this goal we’ve launched our first store in Q1 2024 under our brand Common Room.

This serves the joint purposes of us generating revenue and showcasing our technology to the world, as well as operating as a living laboratory, allowing us to rapidly iterate new food and beverage automation innovations directly in house, without the need to rely on external clients.

Common Room deploys our first key breakthrough, a robot dubbed Fusion that can assemble a freshly made bowl of up to 26 ingredients in just 20 seconds.

The core engineering philosophies that drive this are simple.

Future proofing is the enemy of success, automate what your customer needs, not what you think they need, and if you’re not embarrassed of your first product, you’ve shipped too late.

Keeping these in mind is how we’ve gone from startup inception to launching a robot store within 6 months.