The robochef revolution poised to take over restaurants
Robot-driven kitchens are delivering profit margins that traditional restaurateurs can only dream of, and their spruikers argue that human chefs will benefit too.
Need a hand? Kaikaku is just one of several companies around the world racing to bring robotics into the kitchen. Andrey Popov
Josef Chen likes to joke that the idea for his business sprang from the “traumatic” experience of working in his family’s Chinese restaurant while growing up in Austria.
“From the age of about six or seven, I did every job: peeling potatoes, cutting carrots, making cocktails, all of that,” the entrepreneur says. “But I absolutely hated it. I couldn’t understand why humans still had to do that kind of work.”
