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The next revolution of the restaurant industry has arrived: digital platforms are providing opportunity to operators allowing them to increase revenue by maximizing unused kitchen space. On this episode of Ghost Kitchen Trends podcast, I talk with Ajay Sunkara, co-founder and president of Nala Robotics about a robotic chef's capability and a fully robotic kitchen.
Nala Robotics is a fully automatic robotic chef that can automate the entire cooking process. Sunkara has an engineering
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background, he runs an engineering college, technology companies and is a managing partner and investor in breweries.
Sunkara says that Nala Robotics got started because of something he noticed while at one of his breweries. He says, “one day I was at one of our breweries in the tasting room and sipping beer, I felt the beer was tasting the same almost every single day. It's been pretty consistent but the food that they've been serving with it has been hit or a miss, too spicy or too salty, never consistent in fact. That led me to the idea that the beer is totally automated. It's all these machines making it but when it comes to the food, there's a lot of manual human error involved and that's where the idea started.” Adding, “when I came back to the US I sat with my engineers, we started designing the system and five years down the line we have Nala.”
Nala Robotics recently opened their first restaurant in Illinois, One Mean Chicken, a chef-driven fried chicken concept from a made-from-scratch kitchen built around Nala’s proprietary AI and cooking systems.
Sunkara talks about in the beginning Nala was started to create consistent food, once the pandemic struck, Nala has created new opportunities in the food industry including touchless food and contactless delivery. It is a machine that can multitask, address labor shortages and food consistency.
Marketplace is a new concept, says Sunkara, it is a food marketplace for all professional chefs, at-home chefs, celebrities, and food connoisseurs to sell their dishes worldwide. Nala also has the capability to work continuously around the clock and can provide a variety of packaged foods too.
To hear how Nala is able to customize each recipe as well as individual dishes, the cuisines Nala can make, and Nala’s expansion plans, listen to this episode of Ghost Kitchen Trends.
about 1 year ago
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