Infinite Possibilities: Powering Wonder’s Next Chapter with Advanced Food Robotics

Infinite Possibilities: Powering Wonder’s Next Chapter with Advanced Food Robotics

At Wonder our mission is to make great food more accessible. That means reaching more people, in more places, at more times of day and at prices that more families can afford. We do this by rethinking everything that limits traditional restaurants today.

Most fast-casual brands reach only a small fraction of the country, given the lack of population density and customer demand to support the fixed infrastructure of a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant. Many close early, limiting consumer access. And the best-quality options are often priced out of reach for most families. At Wonder, we believe there’s a better way.

Over the last year, we’ve moved faster and further than ever toward that mission, evolving Wonder from a first-of-its-kind multi-restaurant operator into a truly scalable, technology-powered food platform. By bringing multiple premium brands under one roof, operating extended hours and using automation to reinvest savings into lower prices, Wonder is uniquely positioned to bring fast-casual and fast-fine quality to everyone. Our goal is to become the primary destination for mealtime, delivering chef-crafted originals, beloved local restaurant favorites, meal kits and prepared foods all from a single platform.

Today, we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Spyce from sweetgreen the company behind the groundbreaking Infinite Kitchen technology. With this acquisition, Wonder will own one of the world’s most advanced food robotics platforms, accelerating our vision to redefine how food is prepared and served. 

When we look back at this moment in time, I believe today will quite possibly be the most transformational in Wonder’s history.

Infinite Kitchen blends elite engineering, proprietary IP and proven commercial performance. The technology will unlock the ability to operate over 100 restaurants out of a small kitchen across every cuisine type, delivering unmatched variety and quality with flawless accuracy and consistency, from temperature to portioning.

We’re thrilled to continue working closely with Sweetgreen and their visionary co-founders as they scale Infinite Kitchen. And we’re especially excited to welcome the remarkable Spyce team led by Michael Farid to Wonder, including 38 MIT-trained engineers and support staff. This team has brought to life what no one else has: the only fully automated bowl-making system operating in commercial kitchens today, with expansion underway across woks, fryers, beverages and more.

By integrating Infinite Kitchen into Wonder’s platform, we gain a decade of innovation overnight, accelerating our automation roadmap and unlocking new opportunities to reinvest directly into customer value. This technology will expand our restaurant capacity, boost throughput and enhance quality, while enabling Wonder to bring great food to more people, in more places, at more affordable prices.

In the end, this acquisition is about scale and possibility. It’s about proving that higher quality food can reach every neighborhood, that great food can be available well past traditional hours, and that automation can make meals more affordable without sacrificing quality, flavor, or consistency.

With this acquisition, we take a monumental leap forward. The future is closer than ever.

Your doing amazing things , i just wanted to say that

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marc, this is wild. you’re out here turning ‘dinner time’ into a sci-fi origin story. i’m just over here wondering if your robots can teach me to stop burning toast.

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