A pizza run in Wylie, Texas, now comes from the sky.
Little Caesars said on April 23 it launched a new high-capacity drone delivery service powered by Flytrex’s Sky2 drone. The Tel Aviv-based company said the drone can carry nearly 9 pounds of food.
Customers within a 6.4-kilometre radius of the Little Caesars in Wylie, about 48 kilometres outside Dallas, can get up to two large pizzas, select sides and sodas about 4 1/2 minutes after the food comes out of the oven.
As of April 27, the Wylie store is the only Little Caesars using the new drone system.
“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.
Flytrex said most food delivery drones are quadcopters or hexacopters, with four or six rotors, but the Sky2 uses an eight-rotor octocopter design. Flytrex CEO and co-founder Amit Regev said that setup made larger meal deliveries possible.
“Until now, drones simply weren’t capable of delivering a full family meal. The Sky2 changes that,” Regev said.
Food delivery by drone is already in use across the fast-food industry. Flytrex has also partnered with Chick-fil-A, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Kebabs to Go and El Pollo Loco. The company has also partnered with DoorDash and received funding from Uber in September 2025.
Other companies are expanding similar services. In August 2025, Chipotle said it would roll out Zipotle, a drone delivery service with Zipline. Wing, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, partnered with Walmart to offer autonomous drone delivery in select cities, including Atlanta and parts of Dallas-Fort Worth.
After test runs for Walmart in 2025, Wing said in January it would expand to 150 more stores through 2026, with a network of 270 drone delivery locations by 2027.
In October 2025, Matternet began delivering Dave’s Hot Chicken across Northridge, California, about 40 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles. Earlier this month, DoorDash and Wing also said they would offer drone food delivery in the Atlanta metro area.
Flytrex marked its 100,000th food delivery in August 2024. McKinsey & Company predicts that by 2035, 1.5 billion commercial orders will be delivered annually by drone in the United States alone.
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