How Tasty is the Food Cooked by Robots !!
Posted on the 05 June 2018 by Sampathkumar Sampath
How often do you take hotel food ?~ what is your primary aspect of selecting a
hotel – the taste, the quality, the price, the ambience or .. .. .. !! ~ at
Triplicane, there are no. of messes (Bharati Mess is a famous one at that)as also hotels like Ratna café besides road
side eateries – there are crowds everywhere !! there is also the
aspect of service – the servers, their looks, the way they treat people and the
way food is served .. ..many of that will have no meaning when you
order food online – through Apps – Swiggy – Zomato – Ubereats .. ~ one gets to
see so many of such delivery vehicles swirling on road these days !!
Here is a restaurant miles
away in Boston which claims to put a lot
of thought into what makes a good meal. Interestingly, their web reads : everything
has to taste great, so our recipes are inspired by the most delicious spices,
flavors and textures from around the world. It’s also nice to have choices, so
each one of our bowls can be customized to your taste and we have vegetarian,
pescatarian, gluten-free and vegan options. Finally, we know the importance of
presentation, and our Garde Manger (pronounced gar-mahn-jey) will apply the
finishing touches. We want our food to look as good as it tastes.
Now open for business in downtown
Boston, Spyce offers a half dozen bowls of food in Latin, Mediterranean, and
Asian styles. Prices start out at just $7.50 a bowl. The explanation for the
budget conscious price tag is because using robots to prepare the meals saves
on costs. These savings are then passed directly on to the customer for an
experience that’s both high-tech and wallet-friendly. If you have not noticed,
there is conspicuous mention of ‘robots’ .. yes – robots – making your
food.
It further adds that when customers
enter Spyce, they are met with a human guide who shows them to a touchscreen
kiosk where they can place their order. This order
is then sent to the kitchen — which is visible to the customers — where the
food is prepared by robots. Finally, it’s handed over to a human
employee to add garnishes like cilantro or crumbled goat cheese, before being
distributed to the customer. If some is worried about a lack of human chef
expertise, though. The Spyce robots precisely execute recipes created by Sam
Benson of the celebrated Café Boulud. The company also boasts Michelin-starred
chef Daniel Boulud on its advisory board, having agreed to participate after
seeing a demonstration of the robot in action.
“Running a restaurant is
quite difficult,” Knight acknowledged. “It’s an industry of low margins, with
high turnover rates, and little room for error. While I can’t speak to the
industry as a whole, our technology has allowed us to deliver incredible meals
for $7.50 and serve them consistently. We’re excited to be part of the industry
and grow with it.”
Started by a group of
20-something robotics engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who
partnered with Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud, the new restaurant in
downtown Boston is founded on the idea that a fulfilling
meal can be more science than spontaneity.The restaurant’s founders have replaced human
chefs with seven automated cooking pots that simultaneously whip up meals in
three minutes or less. “The ingredients are portioned into the
correct sizes and then delivered to a robotic wok, where they are tumbled at
450 degrees Fahrenheit. The ingredients are cooked and seared. And once the
process is complete, the woks tilt downward and put food into a bowl. And then
they’re ready to be garnished and served.
So, that in Boston, is Spyce,the world’s first restaurant featuring a
robotic kitchen that cooks complex meals. Back home, Robot, previously known as MOMO, is
a restaurant in Chennai's Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR – IT corridor), serving delicious Thai and Chinese food. This is the first robot-themed restaurant in India. Here the food is cooked by humans but restaurant has four robot waiters or servers,
who bring food to the customers' tables. The restaurant, was founded by
Venkatesh Rajendran and Karthik Kannan.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
5th June 2018.