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noviembre 20, 2023
The way forward for quick meals supply is right here.
A Florida Chick-fil-A location is completely providing drone supply service to native clients.
Diners inside a 1.2-mile radius of the Brandon/Valrico Chick-fil-A in Central Florida will now have the choice to have their spicy rooster sandwiches and milkshakes delivered through drone for a restricted time.
Drone supply is on the market between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday via Friday, the restaurant announced on social media last week. The quick meals joint stated it hopes to increase to a 2-mile radius within the close to future.
The restaurant partnered with DroneUp, a Virginia-based tech firm that additionally launched a drone supply service with a Tampa Walmart final yr, The Tampa Bay Times reported.
The favored fried rooster chain declined to share the place drone supply can be launched subsequent.
“We’re within the early phases of testing drone supply at a small variety of Chick-fil-A eating places,” Chick-fil-A spokesperson Chelsea Lee informed the native newspaper in an e-mail.
Clients should choose the “drone supply” possibility on the Chick-fil-A app for particular service. As soon as doing so, workers load their meals order right into a cardboard field and connect the field to a drone exterior of the restaurant, according to a video posted by the restaurant exhibiting how the method works.
The drone then flies the meals to its vacation spot, lowers the field with a cable and drops it gently on the bottom for the shopper to choose up.
Drinks, that are sealed earlier than leaving the restaurant, can be delivered, the situation stated.
“Simply received ours – that was tremendous quick. Meals was sizzling, good – thanks!!!!” one happy buyer commented on the restaurant’s Fb web page.
One other posted a video of her supply being dropped off at her house: “Essentially the most thrilling factor ever,” she quipped.
Drones are the newest supply improvements Chick-fil-A has been making an attempt. The company announced final Might that it was testing out autonomous supply automobiles at choose eating places throughout the nation.
