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Robots Take Over Hong Kong Restaurant Food On
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June 23, 2020
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2:03Now Playing"My favorite dish from this restaurant is fish fillet pasta in cream sauce,” says Kim Lam, a regular at Hong Kong’s Food On.
Food On is an autonomous smart kitchen with robot waiters, chefs and even delivery bots.
The entire process is automated.
“The seasoning is standardized,” explains Lam. “It tastes the same every time I order it here. Also, food is prepared speedily only taking three minutes. I think it tastes better than made by human chefs.”
Customers order their meal via a touchscreen before being seated and waited on by a staff of robots, both big and small.
The rise of these robots means Food On need only employ 4 staff members to help with prepping food and washing dishes.
“Instead of traditionally having one floor plan, 2D design, with the smart kitchen you can have two, three, four levels, so the efficiency of space can be fully utilized," says Food On’s founder George Mew. He says there are lots of advantages like a more efficient use of space.
“Second is food safety, because people, chefs cooking, that come with a lot of food safety issues — dirty shoes and falling hairs, and other sick chefs or people that bring different types of food safety [issues] into the kitchen,” Mew added.
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