Yummy Future
Yummy Future is a YC Summer 2019 (S19) company. Based in Champaign, IL, USA. Team of 7.
About Yummy Future
Summary
Yummy Future builds robotic barista systems for food and beverage operators, replacing the manual labor behind the counter with a robot arm, proprietary software, and an operational playbook. Restaurants, kiosks, lobbies, campuses, and transit venues use the platform to serve a full café menu, including espresso, matcha, and cold brew, without staff at the bar. The system targets the repetitive, high-volume preparation work that drives turnover in food service.
Business model
A partnership and quote-based model for deploying robotic café units at operator locations.
Go-to-market
Food and beverage operators, from independent cafés to high-traffic institutional venues, engage through a direct "partner with us" sales process and quote request, rather than self-serve sign-up.
From the Y Combinator listing
We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry.
We amplify worker produtivity by10X. Restaurants and food retail businesses require high volume and consistency, yet many business owners struggle to achieve this. Employees also dislike working in repetitive and labor-intensive environments, where even a slight mistake can lead to customer complaints. This results in high turnover rates in the restaurant industry. Our goal is to let robots and machines handle the boring, laborious tasks so that humans can focus on engaging with customers and collecting product feedback.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- Champaign, IL, USA
- 7
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Garrett Yan
- Jack Cui
Score every batch against your own thesis
GPAgent's sourcing agent reads every company in a batch, scores each one against your fund's thesis in a private workspace, and lines up the founders worth meeting before Demo Day. You decide who to contact. Your scores, notes, and pipeline never appear on these pages.
How Accelerator intelligence works