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December 9, 2025
Olo Inc., a number one restaurant expertise supplier, has partnered with Zipline, an autonomous supply service, to combine drone supply capabilities into the Olo platform, in accordance with a press launch.
The combination is anticipated to launch in early 2026. It would allow restaurant manufacturers utilizing Olo Rails to supply Zipline’s autonomous drone supply as a success choice, streamlining operations whereas increasing their attain to serve extra visitors sooner, extra conveniently and extra effectively.
Olo Rails consolidates orders from third-party marketplaces immediately into eating places’ point-of-sale methods and kitchen shows, unifying workstreams, eliminating guide entry and lowering errors. Integrating Zipline’s service into Rails will enable manufacturers to handle conventional and autonomous supply channels from a single supply.
The partnership comes because the drone supply market experiences explosive progress and as visitors more and more anticipate and wish sooner, on-demand service.
“Olo is dedicated to powering the restaurant of the longer term, partnering with cutting-edge expertise suppliers that assist eating places run extra effectively and serve extra visitors nationwide,” Noah Glass, founder and CEO at Olo, stated within the press launch. “As manufacturers embrace modern applied sciences to automate low-touch duties equivalent to supply, we’re guaranteeing our platform evolves with them. Integrating Zipline’s confirmed drone supply capabilities into Rails offers our clients – from rising manufacturers to enterprise leaders – seamless entry to the way forward for last-mile logistics with out added complexity. Collectively, we’re redefining comfort, consistency, and brand-controlled visitor experiences.”
Zipline has practically 2 million industrial deliveries accomplished and now serves clients in virtually 20 cities throughout the Dallas-Fort Price metroplex. Zipline operates on 4 continents and safely makes a supply someplace on the earth each 30 seconds.
“Olo has constructed an intensive community of enterprise and rising restaurant manufacturers which are completely positioned to profit from the rise of autonomous supply,” Chris Kenney, vice chairman of partnerships at Zipline, added within the press launch. “By way of this partnership, we’re making drone supply accessible to modern, forward-thinking manufacturers of all sizes, in order that they’ll improve visitor experiences whereas lowering operational complexity and environmental influence. Folks love getting meals Zipped to them — it retains scorching objects scorching, chilly issues chilly and brings dinner for the entire household in a magical supply expertise.”
Zipline presently delivers orders as much as 5.5 kilos, with plans to extend to eight kilos over time. Supply flights are sometimes below 5 minutes, and Zips are thermally insulated to keep up meals high quality.
