Miso Robotics Flippy: Specs, Pricing, and Where It Works

What Is Miso Robotics?

Miso Robotics is a Pasadena, California robotics company focused on commercial kitchen automation. Its flagship product is Flippy, an AI-guided robot arm built to run the fry station in a fast-food kitchen, and it has since added Zippy, a software layer for restaurant operations.

The company first put Flippy to work flipping burger patties at CaliBurger in 2017, then moved on to fry-station work, which turned out to be the better fit: consistent baskets, a repetitive motion, and a hot, oil-splashed job that is hard to staff.

Miso sits alongside other named systems we track in our kitchen robots explainer, which covers which stations automate well and which do not.

Flippy: What It Does And How It Works

Flippy is an AI-vision-guided robot arm mounted at the fry station. It identifies baskets and food type, lowers baskets into the fryer, tracks cook time, and moves finished baskets to a hot-holding area, freeing kitchen staff from the hottest, most repetitive station in the line.

The newest Flippy generation is smaller than earlier versions, taking up roughly half the floor space, and Miso says it can be installed in a few hours rather than the longer retrofit earlier models needed. It is built to handle multiple fried items, including french fries, onion rings, chicken, and other fried proteins, and Miso has cited millions of baskets fried across live commercial deployments as of 2026.

Flippy is a narrow, station-specific robot rather than a whole-kitchen system, which matches the pattern we describe in our industrial kitchen robots guide: automation succeeds when it targets one consistent task, not an entire menu.

Zippy: The Operations Layer

Zippy is Miso's restaurant operations app, built after Miso acquired Zignyl, an AI-powered scheduling, forecasting, and employee-incentives platform, and folded it into what had been a stealth Zippy project. Zippy is not a physical robot; it is a dashboard and conversational assistant operators use to check performance, labor scheduling, and forecasting across locations, including brands beyond Flippy's fry-station customers such as Auntie Anne's, Jersey Mike's, and Jamba.

The pairing gives Miso two revenue lines: Flippy for the physical fry-station work and Zippy for the software layer that runs the rest of the kitchen's operations, positioned by the company as a combined hardware-plus-software platform rather than a single robot.

Where Flippy Is Deployed: White Castle And Jack In The Box

White Castle is Flippy's longest-running customer, first testing the robot in 2020 and later expanding the partnership to install Flippy across 100 locations. Miso has reported White Castle deployments spanning multiple US states with thousands of fry-station orders processed daily.

Jack in the Box has also piloted and scheduled additional Flippy installations, and Miso has partnered with equipment integrators such as Roboworx to broaden restaurant automation deployments beyond the earliest test sites.

For the wider category Flippy competes in, see our restaurant robots overview, which covers front-of-house and back-of-house robots across the industry.

Flippy Pricing: Robot-as-a-Service, Not A Purchase

You cannot buy a Flippy outright. Miso sells the Flippy Fry Station exclusively as a Robot-as-a-Service subscription, reported at roughly $5,400 per month, which is meant to cover the hardware, software, and maintenance rather than a separate purchase and service contract.

That subscription model is common in commercial kitchen robotics, where operators want to avoid a large capital outlay and unpredictable repair costs. Our robot restaurant price guide breaks down how RaaS pricing compares with outright purchase across the category.

Is Miso Robotics Stock Available To Buy?

No, not on a public exchange. Miso Robotics is a private company, and searches for "Miso Robotics stock" are looking for a public ticker that does not exist. The company has raised capital through a series of equity crowdfunding rounds under Regulation A+ rules, letting individual investors buy shares directly through platforms rather than through a stock exchange.

Shares also trade on private secondary marketplaces aimed at accredited investors, where estimated per-share prices have varied noticeably between platforms, a sign of how illiquid and hard to price private-company shares are before any IPO. There is no confirmed public listing date, so treat any "Miso Robotics IPO" figure as speculation, not fact.