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Brief · Issue 011 June 10, 2026

Wingstop's AI Smart Kitchen Cuts Food Waste 34 Percent and Ticket Times in Half — and Just Did It at 2,586 Restaurants Simultaneously.

In ten months, Michael Skipworth shipped the AI Smart Kitchen to every domestic Wingstop. The system forecasts demand in 15-minute increments using more than 300 variables per store. Touchscreens replaced paper tickets that used to fall behind countertops. Speed of service during peak — which used to push past thirty minutes — holds under sixteen even on Super Bowl Sunday. Where Wingstop runs the stores itself, AUV is already running at $2.5 million on the path to $3 million.

Michael J. Skipworth, Wingstop Inc. · $696.9M (FY2025)

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