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Guests eat at a Haidilao restaurant. (Photo of Zhang Peng / LightRocket via Getty Images)
On October 28, Beijing's first fully automated kitchen with chefs and robot servers will open to the public. Haidilao International Holding Ltd. owns a chain of trendy restaurants and recently formed a partnership with Panasonic Corp. to create this automated restaurant. Haidilao plans to expand to 5,000 sites worldwide in the future.
Although the new restaurant is automated, it still serves the same cuisine that guests are used to seeing in Haidilao. This means that vegetables, meat and other ingredients are cooked in a hot broth or pot. Bloomberg reports that "at the restaurant," robots will take orders, prepare and deliver raw meat and fresh vegetables to customers so that they eat soups prepared at their tables ".
Haidilao International Holding Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. have formed Ying Hai Holding Pte. The joint venture will oversee the expansion to other sites in China and possibly worldwide. Jun Yamashita, managing director of Ying Hai Holding Pte., Told Bloomberg: "It could be difficult to expand to such a size in terms of staff, so Haidilao is moving earlier towards an operation that does not rely so much on manual labor.This is where Panasonic's technology comes in. "
Automation and robots are occupying an increasingly important place in the food industry. For example, Flippy, the flipper-hamburger robot, was a grill chef at CaliBurger and handled chicken and tater tots at Dodger Stadium this year. Although Flippy has not replaced any employees, Haidilao's restaurant seems to replace human servers and some chefs with robots.
You do not have to go to Beijing to eat in a restaurant with a fully automated kitchen, and you will not have to wait for Haidilao to expand to the United States. The Spyce Restaurant in Boston has a robotic kitchen that prepares all the food for the guests. Spyce was created by four MIT graduates. The casual menu starts at $ 7.50 and promises that the meal will be ready in three minutes or less.
At Spyce, you order from a digital kiosk and one of seven woks automatically prepares the meal. Although robots control most of the process, a human adds trim and sides at the end. Spyce employs a few people at its Boston site and Haidilao also has employees. However, the food industry is moving towards full automation, which will eventually eliminate almost all jobs for people.
While the focus is primarily on job loss, automation can make the food industry more efficient. It can also enhance safety by eliminating the risk of contamination and reducing the risk of injury to human workers. When robots prepare vegetables for a fondue, no human chef is likely to cut his fingers. Similarly, when a robot controls a wok with sensors, you do not have to worry about undercooked meat or food poisoning.
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Guests eat at a Haidilao restaurant. (Photo of Zhang Peng / LightRocket via Getty Images)
On October 28, Beijing's first fully automated kitchen with chefs and robot servers will open to the public. Haidilao International Holding Ltd. owns a chain of trendy restaurants and recently formed a partnership with Panasonic Corp. to create this automated restaurant. Haidilao plans to expand to 5,000 sites worldwide in the future.
Although the new restaurant is automated, it still serves the same cuisine that guests are used to seeing in Haidilao. This means that vegetables, meat and other ingredients are cooked in a hot broth or pot. Bloomberg reports that "at the restaurant," robots will take orders, prepare and deliver raw meat and fresh vegetables to customers so that they eat soups prepared at their tables ".
Haidilao International Holding Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. have formed Ying Hai Holding Pte. The joint venture will oversee the expansion to other sites in China and possibly worldwide. Jun Yamashita, managing director of Ying Hai Holding Pte., Told Bloomberg: "It could be difficult to expand to such a size in terms of staff, so Haidilao is moving earlier towards an operation that does not rely so much on manual labor.This is where Panasonic's technology comes in. "
Automation and robots are occupying an increasingly important place in the food industry. For example, Flippy, the flipper-hamburger robot, was a grill chef at CaliBurger and handled chicken and tater tots at Dodger Stadium this year. Although Flippy has not replaced any employees, Haidilao's restaurant seems to replace human servers and some chefs with robots.
You do not have to go to Beijing to eat in a restaurant with a fully automated kitchen, and you will not have to wait for Haidilao to expand to the United States. The Spyce Restaurant in Boston has a robotic kitchen that prepares all the food for the guests. Spyce was created by four MIT graduates. The casual menu starts at $ 7.50 and promises that the meal will be ready in three minutes or less.
At Spyce, you order from a digital kiosk and one of seven woks automatically prepares the meal. Although robots control most of the process, a human adds trim and sides at the end. Spyce employs a few people at its Boston site and Haidilao also has employees. However, the food industry is moving towards full automation, which will eventually eliminate almost all jobs for people.
While the focus is primarily on job loss, automation can make the food industry more efficient. It can also enhance safety by eliminating the risk of contamination and reducing the risk of injury to human workers. When robots prepare vegetables for a fondue, no human chef is likely to cut his fingers. Similarly, when a robot controls a wok with sensors, you do not have to worry about undercooked meat or food poisoning.
