California Pizza Kitchen Brings Autonomous Cooking to Military Bases

California Pizza Kitchen is rolling out hundreds of automated pizza kiosks at U.S. military bases.

The phased deployment—in partnership with Ranger Group and its CEO, U.S. Army Ranger veteran Mark “Ranger” Jones—will serve those in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard.

“As a veteran myself, I’m personally proud to bring our restaurant-quality pizzas directly to the places where our service members work and train,” says Michael Beacham, president of California Pizza Kitchen Global. “This initiative is both an expression of our gratitude and a meaningful step forward in our mission to make the California Pizza Kitchen experience more accessible wherever people are.”

In the future, the brand says it may potentially expand to additional military locations, including overseas facilities.

The military initiative builds on CPK’s broader automated retail strategy—which also targets airports, universities, hospitals and more—to implement and operate up to 1,000 such machines nationwide over the next three years.