Assembly
Lays down sauce, cheese, toppings, rice, protein and dressing in the right amount and the right order, portion after portion.
It does not bake, does not fry and makes no dough. It does not cut anything that arrives whole.
Robot kitchens and hatches, with Daylited
A pizza at SEK 86 instead of SEK 130.
Same dough, same cheese, same oven. Three costs shrink instead: our share is 18 per cent where the industry takes thirty, a machine takes the assembly step, and the hatch has no dining room to pay for. To the öre it is SEK 85.88, and the whole calculation is below.
Every price on this page leaves exactly as many kronor per portion as you keep today. We never show a lower price and a higher profit at the same time.
What a kitchen robot actually is
A robot cooks no dish. It performs one step.
Dispensing sauce, cheese and toppings onto a pizza is the same motion as dispensing rice, chicken and dressing into a bowl. A line that manages one manages the other, which is why we sell by step and not by dish.
Sell by dish and you have to invent a machine per dish. Sell by step and you can point at an installation that exists, and say plainly which dish we have not yet seen it make.
The evidence base is nine real installations and five companies that folded, all read 2026-08-14. Sources sit beside each machine below.
The fryer
Lowers and lifts the baskets, holds the time per item, and logs the temperature of the oil.
It does not bread, does not season and does not plate. It changes no oil, and it cannot see when something has landed beside the basket.
The cell
A whole kitchen in a few square metres, from stock in the magazine to a finished portion at the hatch.
It does not change menu in an afternoon. What the cell can cook is what is rigged into it, and a new dish is a job rather than a setting in an app.
Four dishes, one arithmetic
What the price can be with the same kronor per portion
A machine is a fixed monthly cost and never a saving per portion. Below its break-even it costs more than the labour it replaces, and then the price goes up rather than down. We print that in the same table as the good numbers.
| Dish | Today | With us, same kitchen | With us and the machine | In a hatch | Machine pays from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pizza | SEK 130 | SEK 110.98 | SEK 107 | SEK 85.88 | 2,414 a month |
| Burger | SEK 145 | SEK 123.78 | SEK 137.95 (higher, see note) | SEK 116.84 | 6,933 a month |
| Bowl and salad | SEK 135 | SEK 115.25 | SEK 136.99 (higher, see note) | SEK 115.87 | 7,956 a month |
| Kebab and taco | SEK 120 | SEK 102.44 | SEK 126.82 (higher, see note) | SEK 105.70 | 9,945 a month |
The note behind the higher figures
The starting volume in the table is 3,000 portions a month, which is 100 a day. At that volume the pizza line pays for itself and none of the other machines do. That is not an error in the calculation, that is the answer.
Make more portions and the line moves. It is why the form at the bottom asks for your volume and not for your budget.
Pizza, with Picnic Pizza Station
Pays from 2,414 portions a month, against 3,000 in the starting value
The machine costs SEK 38,000 a month
Burger, with Fritösarm på skena
Pays from 6,933 portions a month, against 3,000 in the starting value
The machine costs SEK 58,000 a month
Bowl and salad, with Doseringslinje för skålar
Pays from 7,956 portions a month, against 3,000 in the starting value
The machine costs SEK 81,000 a month
Kebab and taco, with Doseringslinje för skålar
Pays from 9,945 portions a month, against 3,000 in the starting value
The machine costs SEK 81,000 a month
Rak avskrivning över fem år, utan ränta och utan restvärde. Restvärdet är noll med avsikt: Karakuris tillgångar såldes för 2,6 procent av insatt kapital i konkursen juli 2023, så andrahandsvärdet på kökrobotik är i praktiken noll. Dollarbelopp räknas till 10,80 kronor. Kursen är vald med marginal och inte hämtad ur en notering, så att maskinen räknas som dyrare än den troligen är.
The ghost kitchen
The room carries the low price, not the robot
Follow the order in which the kronor disappear. The machine removes labour minutes and adds a fixed cost, and in a kitchen that already pays for a dining room the two nearly cancel out. What actually moves the price is losing the dining room, the till and the staffing during opening hours.
The only operator in our whole review that counts square metres rather than wages runs an entire pasta kitchen in three square metres, with no seating, in Paris. In a city where rent is the expensive line and the wage is not, that is a different calculation from the American one, and it is the only one in the material built for European costs.
Source: Freethink, Sifted och The Spoon via sammandrag, read 2026-08-14, rapporterad. The company sells no machine and runs its own premises, so there is no list price and we set none.
SEK 1,250,000To open a hatch with a kitchen behind itMachine, oven, refrigeration, hatch, card terminal, ventilation and fitting out. Our estimate, not a quotation.
SEK 36,000 a monthRent, restocking, cleaning and supervisionAn unstaffed kitchen still has someone responsible, and that someone is a person.
75 a dayPizzas needed for the hatch to break even at SEK 85.88Machine included, meaning SEK 74,000 a month in running cost.
The question we have not answered yet
Svensk vägledning för obemannad livsmedelsförsäljning hittade vår genomgång inte i augusti 2026. Verksamheten ska registreras hos kommunen som all annan livsmedelsverksamhet, men den specifika vägledningen för en obemannad lucka är inte utredd. Vi reder ut den per kommun innan vi öppnar något, och vi påstår inget om den innan dess.
The boundary
The dough is yours, the oven is yours
The assembly line makes no dough and bakes nothing. Mixers and sheeters are old technology every bakery already owns, and they are not the new part. The new part is that the dispensing, the queue and the log hang together with the order.
Pizza
Sauce, cheese and toppings on ready bases. The dough and the oven stay yours.
Burger
The baskets at the fryer, meaning the fries and anything breaded. The grill, the bun and the plating stay yours.
Bowl and salad
Rice, protein, greens and dressing into the bowl. The cooking and the knife work stay yours.
Kebab and taco
The filling in the bread or the box. The spit and the grill stay yours.
None of our sources shows an installation making this particular dish. The step is the same as in a bowl and so is the machine, but we do not claim a throughput we have not seen. The figure is a starting value for you to replace.
With source, read date and counterweight
The machines we count on, and what went wrong for the people who built them
Every machine carries its counterweight in the same card as its capacity. An operator about to spend money should hear the worst case from us, not from somebody else afterwards.
Picnic Pizza Station
SEK 38,000 to SEK 54,000 a month. Source: PMQ Pizza 2021-08-23 och TechTimes 2021-08-25, read 2026-08-14.
Rapporterat till mellan 3 500 och 5 000 dollar i månaden, räknat till kursen ovan. Samma rapport ställer det mot ungefär 2 400 dollar i månaden för en linjekock som gör samma jobb, alltså är maskinen dyrare än en person tills volymen är tillräcklig.
100 portions an hour according to the supplier. Hundra pizzor i timmen är tillverkarens tak vid full matning. Kalkylen räknar med 45, eftersom en linje som ska nå taket kräver att någon matar den utan avbrott och att ugnen hinner med. Ett tak är inte ett snitt.
Zume tog in mellan 423 och 500 miljoner dollar på pizzarobotar och ugnar i leveransbilar. Osten gled av pizzan under körning. Robotdivisionen lades ned 2020 och bolaget likviderades i juni 2023. Källa: Physics World och Nation's Restaurant News, läst 2026-08-14.
Doseringslinje för skålar
SEK 81,000 to SEK 99,000 a month. Source: Restaurant Dive 2023-11-06 och 2024-08-12, samt QSR Magazine via sammandrag, read 2026-08-14.
En linje av Sweetgreens och Hyphens slag rapporteras kosta 450 000 till 550 000 dollar per butik. Den hyrs inte ut, så talet här är vår egen avskrivning av köpeskillingen enligt regeln ovan, och inte ett pris någon har offererat.
500 portions an hour according to the supplier. Femhundra skålar i timmen är det påstådda taket. En demonstration i Penn Plaza gav knappt 200 skålar på 30 minuter, alltså omkring 400 i timmen, och det är den enda mätning vi har sett. Kalkylen räknar med långt lägre tal, se rätten.
Sweetgreens personalkostnad som andel av omsättningen steg från 27,9 till 28,9 procent samtidigt som antalet butiker med linjen gick från tio till trettio. Bolaget sålde hela tekniken till Wonder den 29 december 2025 och halverade utrullningstakten. Källa: Sweetgreen 10-K 2026-02-27, belagd, läst 2026-08-14. Automation skyddar inte mot vikande efterfrågan: när volymen faller blir maskinens fasta kostnad en hävstång åt fel håll.
Fritösarm på skena
SEK 58,000 a month. Source: The Robot Report och Restaurant Dive 2022-06-14, read 2026-08-14.
Hyra 5 400 dollar i månaden utan startkostnad, räknat till kursen ovan. En äldre prismodell låg på 5 000 dollar i installationsavgift plus 3 000 dollar i månaden.
100 portions an hour according to the supplier. Drygt hundra korgar i timmen enligt leverantören, nästan dubbelt mot en människa. Ingen mätmetod anges, så talet är ett påstående och inte en mätning. En korg är dessutom inte en portion: kalkylen räknar på hur många portioner stationen lämnar ifrån sig, inte på korgar.
Tillverkaren har tio robotar i fält per den 31 mars 2026, en ackumulerad förlust på 153,7 miljoner dollar och en revisorsanmärkning om fortsatt drift. Kostnaden för sålda varor var 1 426 907 dollar mot en intäkt på 514 798 dollar under 2025, alltså förlust på varje såld robot. Tre CaliBurger-restauranger avinstallerade sina under 2024. Källa: Form 1-K till SEC 2026-04-20, belagd, läst 2026-08-14.
The vending unit we do not sell
Burgarautomat i vending-format, klar på omkring sex minuter. 6,99 dollar per burgare. Bolagets egen investerarsida beskriver verksamheten som ett tidigt bolag utan intäkter som lanserar sina första kommersiella enheter 2026, sju år efter grundandet.
Vi säljer den inte, och vi räknar inte med den. Den står här för att den ska vara igenkänd.
What we publish about every machine we install
Nobody in this industry publishes measured outcomes per real installation. Every figure that exists is either a supplier's model or a chain's quarterly slide with no working shown. This is what we put out instead, and it covers what we install ourselves.
- Portioner per timme, uppmätt i köket och inte hämtat ur ett datablad
- Arbetstimmar före och efter, per station och per vecka
- Vad maskinen kostade och vad den kostar att hålla i gång
- Månaden då den gick jämnt ut, eller att den inte har gjort det ännu
The partnership
Who you call, and who answers for what
A partnership that does not say who does what is two parties pointing at each other. Here is the split, and it sits on the page before you sign anything.
Daylited AB
Company number 559593-4240. Hardware and AI are two of the company's four fields, alongside electric vehicles and electric transport.
- Picks the machine per kitchen and per step, and says no when the volume will not carry it
- Installs it, connects it and keeps it running, with a person who answers
- Builds the control layer that lets the machine and our systems speak the same language
Gaddr Foods
The orders, the money and the numbers.
- Orders, the queue and the route into the machine
- Reconciliation and payout every banking day
- The calculation on this page, using the same figures as your portal
The manufacturer
Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, applying from 20 January 2027. Read 2026-08-14.
- Produces the technical documentation and runs the conformity assessment
- Applies the CE marking and draws up the EU declaration of conformity
- Answers for the design, meaning that the machine can be cleaned around and underneath
What we are not
We manufacture no machine and we CE mark none. We hold no certifications to lean on here, and we would rather write that than leave it out.
The line nobody else sells
The machine writes the hygiene log while it works
It already controls on temperature and time, which means it measures them. The log is written as the step runs, not afterwards by someone recalling it.
SEK 49,920 a yearWhat 3 hours a week costs in working timeThree hours a week is a starting value and not a measurement. Tell us what your own checks take and we run that figure instead.
Article 5Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 requires a permanent HACCP-based procedureEvery critical control point the machine affects, meaning temperature and time, has to be monitored and documented. Source: EUR-Lex, förordning (EG) nr 852/2004, read 2026-08-14.
The machine and the kitchen
Equipment, not a promise
The photographs set a mood and are never evidence. No machine in these pictures is ours, and no caption carries a figure: the figures are in the tables.
An arm in a cell, not a robot shaped like a person. It has to be cleanable around and underneath. 
The step is identical in every portion. That is why a machine can do it. 
The kitchen stays. The machine takes a station, not a job title. 
The dough proves at its own pace, and no machine in our calculation touches it. 
The oven is yours. The assembly line bakes nothing. 
The unstaffed hatch is not new. What is new is that the queue lives in the phone.
Ask us to run it
Give us your volume and we say yes or no
We answer with the same calculation as above, run on your figures instead of the starting values. If the answer is no we say so, and it has cost you one email.
- We rerun the table on your portions, your menu price and your food cost.
- Daylited looks at the premises and says which machine will go in, and whether the ventilation and the power supply are enough.
- You get an answer with the figures written out, and a quotation only once somebody has seen the kitchen.
Questions an operator asks
You write yourself that the machine does not pay off on three dishes out of four. Why should I get in touch?
Because that calculation runs on a starting value and not on your restaurant. The number that decides it is how many portions you make in a month, and you have that number, not us. Put it in the form and we run it again.
And because one line drops whatever your volume is: our share of the sale is lower than the one you pay today. That part needs no machine at all.
Do you build the machines yourselves?
No. They come from manufacturers who design, document and CE mark them. Daylited picks the machine, installs it and keeps it running, and we connect it to the orders and the payouts. We hold no certifications in this, and we would rather write that than leave it out.
Can a hatch stand anywhere?
No, and that question is not fully settled. The business is registered with the municipality like any other food business, but our review in August 2026 found no Swedish guidance specific to unstaffed food sales. We resolve it per municipality before we open anything.
What does an installation cost?
You get that answer after a site visit. What it costs to put a machine in depends on the premises, the ventilation and the power supply, and a figure published by a page that has not seen your kitchen is a figure that changes once we have. The machines' own list prices are above, with source and read date.
To run the numbers on your own pizzeria with your own figures, the calculator is on the pizzeria page, and our terms towards restaurants are on the restaurants page.