reporter: one way is with partnerships, like the one for bread with james beard award-winning baker greg wade> how does the machine work? >> the fridge actually keeps track of temperature, the inventory, and the way it works is every single day we know the inventory in the fridge. all that foods that we made, we can actually allocate most efficiently across the network every night. >> reporter: isn't there a little brain inside the machine that says, ah, this salad's been in too long? >> yeah, that's a huge part of what makes this possible. so if you were to find a fridge on the sunday night, we hadn't been there yet, it actually wouldn't let you buy some of the products because they're past their prime. >> reporter: what? >> yeah. >> reporter: it wouldn't let you buy it? >> we actually say, we're not letting you buy this. it would be safe to eat but from a's quality perspective, we actually shut it off. >> reporter: the quality and recipes that appeal to a wide variety of taste is the job of emily stucker. >> historically it's been really hard to make healthy food taste good. >> reporter: wh

>> one way is with partnerships like the one for bread with james beard award-winning baker greg wadeidge actually keeps track of temperature. the inventory. and the way it works is every single day we load the inventory in the fridge. all that food that we made we can allocate across the food network overnight. >> reporter: isn't there a brain inside that says, ah, this slad's been in too long? >> yeah. that's a huge part of what makes this possible. if you were to find a fridge on a sunday night, we hadn't been there yet it wouldn't let you buy some of the products because they're past their prime. >> what? >> yeah. >> it wouldn't let you buy it? >> yes. we say, we're not letting you buy this. it would be safe to eat, but from a quality perspective we shut it off. >> reporter: the quality and recipes that appeal to a wide variety of taste is the job of emily stucker. are our palates so fried from processed food? >> traditionally salad is lettuce, raw vegetables, but there isn't a lot of flavor in it. right? that's one of the things that we're striving to do is to create healthy reci