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Little Caesars has launched a new high-capacity drone that can deliver meals for the whole family in minutes, giving fast food drone delivery a major upgrade.
The deployment is powered by Flytrex’s new Sky2 drone, which was announced on April 23 and can carry about 9 pounds of food, according to the Tel Aviv-based drone delivery service.
Customers within a four-mile radius of the Little Caesars store in Wylie, Texas (a suburb about 30 miles from Dallas) can receive up to two large pizzas, a selection of sides, and a soda in about four and a half minutes after they come out of the oven. As of April 27, the Wylie location is the only Little Caesars location using the new drone system.
“At Little Caesars, innovation has always been driven by one thing: making it easier for our customers to enjoy our pizza,” said Trish Heusel, vice president of Little Caesars.
While most food delivery drones are quadcopters or hexacopters, meaning they have four or six rotors, Flytrex opted for an octocopter, or eight-rotor, setup with the Sky2. According to Flytrex CEO and co-founder Amit Regev, this approach helped open the door to large-scale meal delivery.
“Until now, drones have not been able to deliver meals to families. Sky2 changes that,” Regev said.
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Drone food delivery is not new. In fact, Flytrex has partnered with several other fast food chains, including Chick-fil-A, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Kebabs to Go, and El Pollo Loco. It has also partnered with DoorDash and received funding from Uber in September 2025.
But Flytrex isn’t the only company in this space. In August 2025, Chipotle announced that it would be rolling out a drone delivery service called “Zipotle” in conjunction with Zipline.
Wing, a Silicon Valley-based subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has partnered with Walmart to offer autonomous drone delivery in select cities, including Atlanta and parts of Dallas-Fort Worth. After successfully piloting deliveries for Walmart in 2025, Wing announced in January that it would expand the service to an additional 150 stores in 2026 and establish a network of 270 drone delivery locations by 2027.
Meanwhile, in October 2025, Matternet, a drone delivery platform based in Mountain View, California, began delivering Dave’s Hot Chicken throughout Northridge, California, about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
And just earlier this month, DoorDash and Wing announced they would offer drone food delivery to the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Demand for food delivery by drone continues to grow, with Flytrex, which supports Little Caesars, achieving 100,000 food deliveries in August 2024. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company predicts that by 2035, 1.5 billion commercial orders per year will be delivered by drone in the United States alone.
