# Sweetgreen agreed to sell Spyce, the unit behind its Infinite Kitchen automated makeline, to Wonder for $186.4 million, keeping the technology in its 20+ automated restaurants under a supply deal

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20251106-chef-1
Date: 2025-11-06 · Stage: Deployment
Can this record move a task judgement? yes
Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/chef

## Scope

One US fast-casual chain (bowls and salads): assembly-line automation of a fixed menu, with 38 Spyce staff moving to the buyer. Company release; earlier earnings calls cited labour savings, this release gives none.

## Source

- Sweetgreen — press release (investor relations) — https://s28.q4cdn.com/367108596/files/doc_news/Sweetgreen-Announces-Strategic-Sale-of-Spyce-to-Wonder-2025.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

A deployment record with a retreat inside it: a chain runs an automated makeline in 20+ restaurants and will keep using it, but sold the unit that builds it for $186.4 million rather than keep owning the robotics. For the fixed-menu task it confirms assembly-line automation of bowls and salads is production, not demo; for 'working alongside kitchen automation', the 38 Spyce staff moving to the buyer and the supply deal show that tending and maintaining the line is now a vendor's business — a deployment-layer fact about who employs those roles.

## What it does not show yet

Twenty-odd automated restaurants at one chain, on a menu built for assembly, is not quick-service cooking in general and says nothing about kitchens that fry, grill or plate to order. This release gives no labour figures, so the earlier earnings-call claims of savings per store stay unverified here, and selling the robotics unit can be read as a cash need as much as a verdict on the technology.

## How to verify it yourself

List the items on your kitchen's menu and mark those assembled from pre-prepped components in a fixed sequence versus those cooked or finished to order; the first group is the only part of your menu a makeline like Infinite Kitchen addresses, and its share of covers tells you whether this record concerns your kitchen at all.


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