Robots Take Over Hong Kong Restaurant Food On

“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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Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.

Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.

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