In China, robots are massively installed in fast food both in the kitchen and in the dining room. Two times cheaper than humans and able to serve twice as many meals, robots are the ideal solution for fast food stores, also faced with a shortage of labor.
In China, robots are massively installed in fast food both in the kitchen and in the dining room. Tomorrow, restaurants without waiters or cooks?
Inaugurated last January, the first 100% robotic restaurant opened in Canton. At the entrance, a robot therefore installs customers before taking the order. In the kitchen, no cooks in the kitchen but a brigade of 32 funny robots, with a screen as a head and spectacular articulated arms. To choose the ingredients or control the cooking times, they were trained by 10 qualified cooks. We had to wait for the verdict of a great chef who tasted the whole menu before giving the green light to the opening of the restaurant. The dishes are then transported to the tables on conveyor belts.
Who is behind this fully automated restaurant?
Country Garden, the Chinese real estate giant that has invested nearly 30 million euros in this restaurant. He even created his own robot construction subsidiary to equip the 1,000 restaurants he plans to open within two years. In Wuhan, at the heart of the Coronavirus epidemic, he set up a communication operation with a good dose of expediency by installing a Food Truck in front of the Red Cross hospital. 100 dishes are served per hour to hospital staff without any risk of contamination since everything is prepared by immune robots. Two times cheaper than humans and able to serve twice as many meals, robots are the ideal solution for fast food stores, also faced with a shortage of labor. The Chinese leader in server robots delivered more than 5,000 machines in 2019, a record.
Will the replacement of servers by robots in France soon be?
For the moment, the phenomenon is mainly concentrated in China, where this type of catering (mainly noodles, rice and soups to be produced in very large quantities) lends itself best to this robotization. No doubt also it is linked to the customer relationship considered there less crucial than in Europe where we are still very straddling the quality of service. Do not be fooled either, the American giants of Fast Food plan without boasting about artificial intelligence and robotization programs to make, without the hand of man, dishes that require little knowledge- do like hamburger and fries. But ordering a grandmother-style blanquette prepared and served by a robot in a brewery or cafe is clearly not for now.