Brad McKay, Founder & CEO of Food Microfactory Start-up, Meals on the Move

The Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast

S2 E3 MEALS ON THE MOVE

Co-Hosts Braden Kemp (Bioenterprise Canada) and Tracy Morningstar (Canadian Council for Indigenous Business) are joined by Brad McKay, Founder & CEO of Meals On the Move (MOM). Brad’s company is a Toronto-based Canadian start-up preparing to deploy an array of robotic micro-factories designed to optimize food catering services for institutions like hospitals and care facilities, each within a defined geographic area and population base.

Brad is passionate about the potential of automation, and in this episode shares his ideas on entrepreneurship, sources of inspiration, and explains why the changes he is pursuing in the food services industry will ultimately free up time for his customers to focus on caring for people.

“It really turns upside down how we make food in Canada,” Brad explains. “Our model creates a small factory close to the customer so that the cost and environmental impact is very small. It’s miniaturizing the way we manufacture food. And we couldn’t do that without robotics.”

Quick Links and References

• MOM official website.
• Makers of food services cobots (collaborative robots) mentioned in this podcast include Hyphen and Miso Robotics. Read more about the latest deployment from CHIPOTLE (press release).
• Salad chain Sweetgreen acquires Spyce (TechCrunch).
• Denis O’Riardon feature in FORA.
• Clayton Christenson’s The Innovator’s Dilemma (Wikipedia).

Disclosure

Nventure seed-funded Meals On the Move as part of the first round of the thriveFORWARD initiative, with the support of FedDev Ontario through the Government of Canada’s Jobs and Growth Fund (JGF).

Acknowledgments

The Executive Producer of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is Robert Washburn. Special thanks to Daniela Scoppa, Heather Cannings and John Hayden. This project is made possible with the support of FedDev Ontario and the Government of Canada.

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