The Problem: Restaurant Operations Are Repetitive, Labor-Dependent, and Hard to Scale. The tools remain fragmented: equipment with no connectivity, work without coordination, or software with no capability in the physical world.

Behind most counters, employees still connect the dots by hand - making drinks, managing orders, adjusting recipes, and keeping equipment moving. Most importantly, baristas sometimes make mistakes.

Our vision is to create a brand-new service model in which intelligent robots handle repetitive production so people can focus on hospitality, creativity, and ownership.

Three Live Stores. $1.7M+ in Total Sales. +137% Q2 YoY Growth

Yummy Future has generated $1,735,848 in cumulative, POS-verified sales across three operating locations, with no paid marketing spend. Revenue reached $554K in 2025, and Q2 2026 alone generated $333K. Management projects full-year 2026 revenue of $1.3 million.

Customers love us.

We have built strong organic visibility and engagement across Google Maps, Yelp, TikTok, and Instagram, driven by user-generated content and positive customer experiences. Without paid promotion, customers actively share their visits, showcase their store experiences, and advocate for our brands.

Our market recognition comes from our human-robot collaboration model. Our three-layer intelligent system handles all repetitive tasks, supporting our baristas to deliver consistent, standardized production. This model frees baristas to focus on customer experience, better drink presentation, and thoughtful, customer-first service, helping drive strong reviews, word-of-mouth referrals, and steady organic growth.

Our intelligent robotic F&B platform integrates hardware, software, and native AI.

1: The robot does the physical work. It makes the drink by grabbing, dispensing, measuring, brewing, and topping.

2: The software runs and schedules the whole operation in real time.

3: The AI utilizes a vision-language-action model plus a world model. It sees what's happening, predicts what's next, and decides what to do, instead of following a fixed program.

A new menu is a software update away.

To launch a new menu, we update the recipes, prices, and scheduling logic, then deploy to the existing robotic system, without new hardware upgrades. The same robotic platform begins producing an entirely different menu within one week, allowing us to test the business concept quickly and expand into new categories with minimal incremental cost.

Coffee is a crowded category. In our case, the competition was happening between our own stores. Located just 0.2 miles apart, our first two stores began cannibalizing each other’s sales. Rather than continuously offering the same coffee menu to the same customer base, we decided to differentiate the second location by converting it into a dedicated matcha concept in Mar 2026.

With a software update, we launched the new concept within one week, without any hardware upgrades. The pivot delivered encouraging results. In April 2026, both locations posted their highest monthly sales in 2026: approximately $49,000 at 609 E Green St and $42,000 at 401 E Green St. Rather than one location growing at the other’s expense, the data showed that the matcha concept increased demand to our two-store network.

Our core innovation isn’t merely a coffee-making robot. It is a beverage retail platform that adapts to multiple markets. The robotic system did not need to be redesigned for a new beverage category. A new set of recipes, a new menu, and a new store environment turned the same hardware platform into a different retail concept. This adaptability enables the same equipment to serve distinct beverage markets, support multiple brands, and make locations viable.

Palo Alto is more than 2,100 miles from our headquarters in Champaign. Opening a store that far away meant putting everything we had learned to the test. Every busy morning in our first stores taught us something: how the robot handled a rush, what customers actually ordered, and how the human+robot service model performed.

Our robotic technology has matured, and the nearly 100% uptime has proven they could operate reliably day after day. That reliability was the foundation that made it possible to open a robotic store 2,100 miles away. For us, that is the real story of the Palo Alto shop: we did not just open another store - we learned how to make our technology, operating experience, and support travel farther than our headquarters.

On a Saturday, April 11, 2026, our three Yummy Future locations, two in Champaign, IL, and one in Palo Alto, CA, logged the best single-day sales of $7,245. Our robotic system made over 1,000 drinks in a single day, demonstrating outstanding operational efficiency and consistent reliability. More importantly, each shop was operated by one barista most of the time.

Our robotic system delivers strong unit economics. Built as an industrial-grade system for demanding daily use, it has completed extensive real-world testing in commercial environments. Its durable construction and reliable performance have helped it maintain nearly 100% uptime throughout our commercial deployments.

Here's what the in-store experience looks like: A customer orders a drink. The robot makes it. A barista hands it to the customer while engaging them in conversation.

By handling repetitive production work, the robotic system frees employees to welcome customers, explain the menu, and create a better in-store experience. It also makes staffing more flexible: employees spend less time mastering complex drink production, shifts are easier to cover, and smaller teams can operate more consistently.

Most importantly, it changes what the job rewards. Instead of paying employees primarily for repetitive production labor, our model places greater value on distinctly human skills - hospitality, connection, ownership, and creating memorable customer experiences.

One intelligent robotic platform. Infinite possibilities.

The beverage retail market is huge. Hotel lobbies in the morning. Busy coffee shops handling multiple rushes. Hospital lobbies operate 24 hours. Airport gates operate eighteen hours a day. In each location, there will be customers with their wallets wanting a cup right now. Meanwhile, speedy, quality, and consistent offerings are expected.

The opportunity is not how much one system can produce at a single location; it is how many locations the platform can serve. The imagination isn't how much a single Yummy Future Robot system operates at one location. It's how many locations one platform can tap into. Same hardware. Same software. Different recipes for different market needs. After all, U.S. chain and independent coffee stores generated $74.3 billion in in-store beverage revenue, while the broader U.S. coffee market is projected to reach $150.88 billion by 2034.^{1US Coffee Market Size Likely to Expand at a CAGR of 5.8% By 2034 https://www.custommarketinsights.com/press-releases/us-coffee-market-size/}

Seven years of milestones building

Our story began with a robotic coffee trailer in 2018 - a humble starting point where we validated our robotic coffee prototype and proved our innovative service concept. In 2019, we won the Illinois Cozad New Venture Challenge, the Amazon Alexa Prize, and joined Y Combinator S19.

From our early prototype to our production units, we iterated rapidly, opened our first brick-and-mortar location in 2022, then the second in 2024, then the third in 2025. Through continuous product and operational refinement, we delivered steady revenue growth and market validation, demonstrating the commercial viability and scalability of our Intelligent Robotic System.

Looking ahead, we are expecting to scale revenue from one million to tens of millions of US dollars through nationwide store expansion and continuous technological iteration. But commercial growth is only the beginning. Our far greater vision: to empower and transform the global food and service industry with robotics hardware, software, and native AI technology.

We are redefining the future of food service - building a more humanized, creative, entertaining, and joyful industry. By replacing repetitive, labor-intensive operations, we bring warmth, interactive experiences, and genuine happiness to both barista teams and customers. Ultimately, we deliver consistent joy and value through robotic intelligence.

Today, we operate three stores. Our ambition is to build Yummy Future into the infrastructure layer for the global food and beverage industry - powering the launch, operation, and scaling of the next generation of concepts, just as Stripe provides infrastructure for payments and Shopify for commerce.