'Pizza! Pizza!' Little Caesars debuts drone delivering family‑size meals
Fast-food drone deliveries just got a hefty upgrade, as Little Caesars launched a new high-capacity drone capable of delivering full family meals in minutes.
The rollout, announced April 23, is powered by Flytrex’s new Sky2 drone, which can carry nearly 9 pounds of food, according to the Tel Aviv-based drone delivery service.
Customers within a four-mile radius of a Little Caesars in Wylie, Texas – a suburb roughly 30 miles outside Dallas – can receive up to two large pizzas, select sides and sodas, roughly 4 1/2 minutes after coming out of the oven. As of April 27, the Wylie location is the only Little Caesars using the new drone system.
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"Innovation at Little Caesars has always been driven by one thing — making it easier for customers to enjoy our pizza," Trish Heusel, a vice president at Little Caesars.
Whereas most food delivery drones are quadcopters or hexacopters, meaning they have four or six rotors, Flytrex opted for an octocopter, or eight-rotor setup, on the Sky2. According to Flytrex CEO and co-founder Amit Regev, that approach helped open the door to larger meal deliveries.
"Until now, drones simply weren't capable of delivering a full family meal. The Sky2 changes that," Regev said.
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A growing industry
Food delivery by drone is nothing 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. They've also partnered with DoorDash and received funding from Uber in September 2025.
But Flytrex isn't the only player in this space. In August 2025, Chipotle announced that it would be rolling out Zipotle, a drone delivery service in conjunction with Zipline.
Silicon Valley-based Wing, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, partnered with Walmart to provide autonomous drone delivery in select cities, including Atlanta and parts of Dallas–Fort Worth. After successful test runs delivering for Walmart in 2025, Wing also announced in January that it would expand the service to 150 more stores throughout 2026, to establish a network of 270 drone delivery locations by 2027.
Meanwhile, in October 2025, Matternet, a Mountain View, California-based drone-delivery platform, began delivering Dave's Hot Chicken across Northridge, California, roughly 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
And just earlier this month, DoorDash and Wing announced they would offer drone food delivery to the Atlanta metro area.
Demand for drone food delivery continues to grow, with Flytrex, the company supporting Little Caesars, celebrating its 100,000th food delivery in August 2024. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company predicts that by 2035, 1.5 billion commercial orders will be delivered annually by drone in the United States alone.