Chipotle founder and ex-CEO Steve Ells is plotting a return to the upscale fast-food scene with robot-powered restaurant chain and kitchens that will require just three employees to operate, The ...

Chipotle founder Steve Ells recently tapped longtime food delivery industry executive Stephen Goldstein to serve as president of his new plant-based, automated fast-food startup Kernel, The Post ...

Founder of Chipotle and Kernel, Steve Ells. Photo: Melanie Dunea. Ells opened the first Kernel three months ago, right beside Madison Square Park in downtown Manhattan.

Chipotle founder Steve Ells is returning to the industry with a new startup that will serve meat-free sandwiches in restaurants powered by robots and skeleton crews. Fox Business.

Last June, Steve Ells, who founded Chipotle and launched the restaurant industry's fast-casual wave, carved out time for a vacation. The entrepreneur--who for years poured every waking hour into ...

Steve Ells, the founder and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill, highlighted Tuesday evening in Lohrfink Auditorium the importance of changing the way people think about and eat fast food. Throughout the ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG1.44%increase; green up pointing triangle founder Steve Ells built an empire on chicken and beef burritos made in assembly-line fashion. Now he’s dropping the meat and ...

Chipotle founder Steve Ells is set to open a new restaurant run by robots aimed at reducing waste. The new restaurant, Kernel, is scheduled to open in Manhattan soon, according to reports, and ...

When Ells started Chipotle over 30 years ago in Denver in 1993, he said “I didn’t understand I was reinventing the ...

Ells founded Chipotle in 1993 out of Denver and stepped down as CEO in 2020, Nation’s Restaurant News reported. He raised $36 million in funding to start Kernel in 2023 and opened its first location ...

Steve Ells, the founder and ex-CEO of the fast casual food giant Chipotle, is plotting a return to the industry early next year with a new startup that will serve meat-free sandwiches in ...