Bay Area startup Café X has opened a robotic coffee bar at San Jose International Airport (SJC), with new features to provide travelers with customized coffee, teas, pastries and more within minutes.
Located in Terminal B, Cafe X at SJC uses locally-sourced ingredients, including California-roasted coffee beans from world-renowned roasters such as Ritual Coffee, Equator Coffees and Intelligentsia Coffee.
Premium ingredients also include Japanese matcha, Swedish oat milk from Oatly and organic milk from Clover Sonoma. The SJC location will offer passengers a choice of pastries from Third Culture Bakery, creators of the Original Mochi Muffin® and Butter Mochi Donuts.
“It’s super rewarding to now be launching our first airport Cafe X location,” says Henry Hu, Cafe X’s founder and CEO. “We look forward to entertaining travelers with our friendly, dancing robotic barista while saving them from what seems like an eternity of waiting in line for coffee.”
Cafe X at SJC features a stimulating interior design complemented with modern user interfaces, chill hip-hop beats, and a dancing robot create a familiar, yet futuristic specialty coffee experience.
“With our growing passenger base and a focus on transforming how Silicon Valley travels, we partnered with Cafe X to serve our passengers traveling through the recently-opened Gates 31-36 concourse in Terminal B,” says John Aitken, SJC director of aviation. “This advanced Robotic Coffee Bar experience is the perfect complement for our state-of-the-art airport and the high-tech region and customers we serve.”
