White Castle expands robotic delivery partnership with Uber Eats
White Castle is teaming up with Uber Eats and Serve Robotics to offer automated delivery.
The legendary fast-food hamburger chain now offers robotic delivery via the Uber Eats on-demand delivery subsidiary of Uber, fulfilled by Serve autonomous sidewalk robots, from stores within the Serve delivery zone.
The zone includes areas within the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, and Alexandria, Va. metro markets. Serve’s latest third-generation robots are engineered to transport substantial, temperature-sensitive orders.
"At White Castle, innovation has been at the heart of our business for more than 100 years," said Chris Shaffery, senior VP of restaurant operations at White Castle. "Partnering with Serve Robotics gives us an exciting new way to combine convenience, technology, and great taste together, while allowing Cravers to enjoy their favorite items in a fun and sustainable way."
White Castle rolled out its first-ever deployment of robotic delivery in collaboration with Uber Eats and urban robot delivery platform Coco Robotics in summer 2025. The retailer has been providing delivery as an option within its White Castle app in a partnership with Uber Direct, Uber's white-label delivery platform, since 2023.
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Meanwhile, Uber Eats has been offering Serve's autonomous deliveries in Los Angeles since 2022. (Serve was spun off from Uber as an independent company in 2021. It has an agreement to deploy up to 2,000 delivery robots on the Uber Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets.)
n addition, Uber Eats has been delivering using Serve robots from select Shake Shack locations in the Miami metro area since February 2025, a variety of restaurant partners in the Atlanta metro area since June 2025., and in Fort Lauderdale since December 2025.
"White Castle is a legendary brand that helped define convenient, fast meals, and we’re thrilled to bring that legacy into the future," said Ali Kashani, CEO of Serve Robotics. "Seeing a Serve robot roll down the sidewalk with a Crave Case will soon feel like a natural extension of the White Castle experience."
White Castle, America's first fast-food hamburger chain, opened in 1921. Based in Columbus, Ohio, the family-owned business owns and operates more than 350 restaurants as well as a retail division providing frozen hamburgers in retail stores nationwide.
