Miso

Our Story

In the summer of 2016, when John Miller – the owner and operator of the international, 36-restaurant CaliBurger chain – lamented that keeping employees safe, productive and engaged was the hardest part of his job, Buck Jordan – a prolific emerging technology investor and builder – heard a business challenge that he knew technology could solve.

In the summer of 2016, when John Miller – the owner and operator of the international, 36-restaurant CaliBurger chain – lamented that keeping employees safe, productive and engaged was the hardest part of his job, Buck Jordan – a prolific emerging technology investor and builder – heard a business challenge that he knew technology could solve.

Armed with just an idea, Buck set out to demonstrate the viability of automation to complement John's restaurant team by creating a robotic arm that could flip a burger for him. Less than two months later, in a rented Pasadena garage in the shadows of Caltech, where Buck recruited a small team of student engineers to help him solve this challenge, a simplistic robotic arm – affectionately named “Flippy” – successfully turned over a burger patty on a flat top grill all by itself. This proof of concept earned Miso Robotics its seed capital to bring Flippy to market and its first customer.

Since our first commercial application at CaliBurger, we have been deployed at Levy Restaurants at Dodger Stadium and White Castle. Today, we’re an AI-powered robotic restaurant platform for high-volume restaurant operators focused on helping restaurant teams thrive. Like the French culinary phrase that inspires our name “mise en place,” our automation solutions help a restaurant’s back of house “put things in place” to make the work of people safer, simpler and more enjoyable.

Miso Robotics. In Place for People.

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