What does a full-stack restaurant model look like? "At Grain, we control the whole end-to-end user experience from cooking, to ordering to delivering. So, we own kitchens, we build our tech, and we own a network of drivers,” explains Yi Sung Yong, co-founder & CEO of Grain. He joins Suresh Shankar in the latest episode of the Slaves to the Algo podcast.

Grain is a Singapore-based multi-brand cloud kitchen that leverages data and a tech-enabled network to serve food to customers. This helps them group their orders a lot more effectively and batch them together. “You can think of it as economies of scale - we can do 8 to 10 drops over two hours versus the industry average of three to four,” says Sung.

Sung and Suresh also talk about using AI for menu curation, meal planning and inventory management for catering services.