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Creator, the Robot Burger Restaurant, Adding Dinner Hours

by Chris Albrecht
March 5, 2020March 5, 2020Filed under:
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Creator, the robot-powered hamburger restaurant in San Francisco, is expanding into dinner service. Starting March 9, Creator will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., the company posted on Instagram yesterday.

Creator is kind of a bellwether for the food robot industry. It’s a concept built around the idea of having a robot take over the manual repetition of grilling and assembling hamburgers, so human employees can focus on providing better customer service and learn new skills.

But up until this year, the Creator restaurant has had limited hours, operating only Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Then this past January, the restaurant expanded service to five days a week (and added a plant-based burger option) but was still only open for lunch.

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Next Monday, March 9. Hours expand again … to 8pm. We'll be open after school and after work! Yes, we'll have HAPPY HOUR specials. The bigger the group you bring, the better the beer, wine & burger deals. 🍻🥂🍔🍔🍔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We can't wait for curious kids and families to stop by after school and for dinner! Many of you work far from SoMa during our lunch hours but live or play in SF at night. Now is your time.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Reservations allow large parties to beat the line, but we welcome walkups too. For group reservations and robot tours email events@creator.rest. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ —————————–⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ HAPPY HOUR⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ $30 pitcher + 3 burgers⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ $10 burger + beer, add fries for $2

A post shared by Creator (@eatatcreator) on Mar 4, 2020 at 11:00am PST

Those limited hours meant that really the only people who could enjoy Creator were office workers in downtown San Francisco. More specifically, those office workers in San Francisco within walking distance of the restaurant’s location at 3rd and Folsom. By opening up dinner hours, Creator should be able to attract a different clientele and really put its robot through its paces in terms of volume and uptime.

Food robotics is at an interesting point in its evolution. Robots that make food and drinks are still relatively new and remain more of a novelty than a common feature of restaurants. Even then, how those robots are being implemented is undergoing big changes.

In January, Miso Robotics unveiled the next iteration of its Flippy robot, which is no longer stationary and will be suspended on a rail to move back and forth as it grills burgers and fries tater tots. That new version of Flippy won’t be available until the end of this year, and in the meantime, Miso is turning to equity crowdfunding, not traditional VCs, to raise its next round of financing.

Other food robots have fallen on harder times. Cafe X shuttered its three downtown robot barista locations in order to focus on airports, and Zume closed its robot-assisted pizza delivery operations.

It looks like Creator’s slow, methodical approach is paying off, at least for its first location. Instead of trying to scale too quickly, Creator has seemingly been intentional in its addition of service hours. As it expands into dinner, the next challenge for Creator will be growing beyond one location.


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