Robot cooks are rapidly making their way into restaurant kitchens. Here's what that looks like.
The trend has moved far beyond pizza as well, with Miso Robotics, the maker of the Flippy 2 — a robot arm that works the fryer at fast-food restaurants — already deployed at Chipotle, White Castle and Wing Zone. It's being introduced to the Middle East market as well through a partnership with Americana, a franchisor and franchisee with over 2,000 restaurants in the region including KFC, Hardees and Pizza Hut.
As of March, Chipotle was testing the robot at its innovation hub in Irvine, California, the Chipotle Cultivate Center. The company plans to use it in a restaurant in Southern California later this year and will determine if it will roll it out nationally. Fast-food preparation is made for robotics."The recipes are highly standardized. And really, it's mostly heating an assembly," Zemke said."No one's creating just the right secret sauce in the back of the house; all of that is provided through a commissary system."
"It started with, 'How do we remove some of the dreariness of a worker standing at the fryer and frying chip basket after chip basket?'" Chipotle chief technology officer Curt Garner told CNBC earlier this summer."It allows our crew to spend more time doing culinary tests, serving guests," he said.
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