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- The founder of Chipotle
opened his first restaurant 31

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years ago, and since then,

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Steve ELs has revolutionized fast food.

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There's a whole category of
restaurants called fast casual,

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all built on the Chipotle model.

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Now ELs is looking to upend
the industry again with Kernel,

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a robot powered restaurant
serving plant-based foods.

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Sounds weird. That's kind of the point.

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Kernel opened their first
restaurant in downtown Manhattan

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three months ago, but it's
been quite different from a

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usual grand opening.

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The idea is that as kernel scales,

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it will employ vastly
fewer employees than a

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normal fast food chain.

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ELs is already working on
opening the second store

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and says This thing is
built to scale fast.

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- Again, I did not have a technology

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background when I started this, right?

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I just had a, a vision for the hub