Zagreb:

Craving gnocchi with lamb, black risotto or zucchini pasta? You may order any of them at a Croatian restaurant the place a robotic chef is ready to rustle up about 70 completely different one-pot meals.

Its house owners say they consider the BOTS&POTS Sci-Meals bistro in Zagreb is the world’s solely restaurant the place ready-to-eat meals in a pot are made by robotic cookers with no human involvement apart from loading the gadgets with contemporary elements.

The gadgets add oil and seasoning in keeping with digital recipes made by a human chef.

In different comparable eating places, robots stir and fry chips and hamburgers, make pizzas or serve and ship meals, however “there isn’t any robotic which makes a one pot meal from contemporary meals,” in keeping with restaurant co-owner Hrvoje Bujas.

It took seven years for Bujas’ companions to show an concept into actuality and open the restaurant final 12 months, after investing over 1 million euros ($1.07 million).

“It was certainly a problem to make a ready-to-eat meal from contemporary meals within the shortest time period as potential and as tasty as it may be,” Bujas informed Reuters within the high-tech bistro.

Prospects appear to agree.

“The meals is high-quality,” stated Lovro Petar Andrisek, 18, who got here to Bots&Pots as a deal with for his birthday. “My plate is completely clear,” he laughed.

The robotic chef known as GammaChef is “taught” digitally cook dinner a meal by the restaurant’s head chef, then remembers it and repeats it endlessly.

5 robotic cookers can every produce 4 meals in quarter-hour or practically 100 meals in an hour, Bujas stated, including that one would price 10,000 euros if it was on the market.

“We’re contemplating increasing our enterprise mannequin through franchise,” Bujas stated, explaining that the robotic hastens the cooking course of and saves cash at a time of employees shortages.

“One such restaurant with 5 robots might be run by a single individual,” he stated. “Our remaining purpose is to create a ‘no waiter, no chef, no money’ house the place you order, get and pay for meals with out human contact.”

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