Case Study: Sunbasket achieves a 10% reduction in production staff and 25% greater consistency with Chef Robotics

Sunbasket - Customer Case Study

Sunbasket, a meal-delivery company whose demand surged after COVID-19, faced a critical labor shortage and needed flexible automation to handle hundreds of SKUs, fast changeovers, and cold-room conditions. To solve this, Sunbasket engaged Chef Robotics and chose Chef Robotics’ collaborative robot system — an AI- and machine-learning-driven robot arm with proprietary utensils — to replace repetitive human assembly while fitting into existing lines.

Chef Robotics deployed four systems with no retrofitting and reached production in three weeks, fully onboarding within five weeks. The Chef Robotics solution displaced about 10% of the staff required per line, improved deposit weight consistency by 25%, increased throughput by 17%, and produced 78K+ servings by 10/18/2022, all delivered under Chef Robotics’ Robot-as-a-Service model that avoids upfront CapEx.

Sunbasket

Mike Wargocki

SVP of Operations