There is such a chef with thousands of recipes in his head, not only can make dishes of eight major cuisines such as Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, and Cantonese cuisine, but also various local specialties. What's even more amazing is that a dish, from the raw materials to the plate, can be prepared within two or three minutes. What restaurant doesn't want such a chef?
On December 25, 2024, in the robot restaurant on the first floor of Tangduo Youth Apartment in Tangshan High-tech Zone, the reporter witnessed the whole process of the chef's stir-frying.
"Good afternoon!" As soon as you enter the restaurant, you will be greeted by a welcoming robot. Led by it, the reporter walked into the restaurant. Behind the innermost transparent glass is the cooking room in the back kitchen, where a chef in a white uniform is busy. Could it be that he is the chef with great powers?
Of course not. At this time, the chef is operating five devices at the same time. The waiter in the restaurant said: "These 5 stir-fry robots are super hardcore chefs."
The next dish to be made is the Tangshan specialty duck and yellow bean carob. I saw the chef enter the name of the dish on the display screen of the stir-fry robot, and then put the prepared beans and duck egg yolk into the box respectively, and click the "cook" button on the display, which immediately shows the preparation time of the dish - 48 seconds.
After the temperature rises rapidly, the barrel in the "belly" of the stir-fry robot begins to rotate, and various seasonings and ingredients are automatically put into the barrel according to the program setting. After a few rotations, the barrel is tipped over, and the dishes automatically fall into the tray below, which is refreshing and smoke-free.
In front of me, the duck egg yolk is covered with beans, and the emerald green and golden color are matched, and the color is very beautiful. The reporter picked it up and tasted it, the skin was crispy and the egg was fragrant.
"The dish we just ate turned out to be fried by a machine." Seeing the reporter taking photos, the two young men who were dining also came to watch. The reporter asked them: "Is there a difference in taste compared with artificially fried vegetables?" The other person replied, "This is the first time we have come, and we haven't eaten at all."
Robot restaurant, naturally, robots are the protagonists here.
Next, the waiter puts the fried dishes on the tray of the food delivery robot, selects the specific private room, and gives instructions, and the food delivery robot sets off towards the destination, safely and smoothly.
The operator of this restaurant is Gaoshan (Hebei) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. Wang Chengyong, general manager of the company, introduced that Gaoshan Company is the first stir-fry robot project to be implemented in Tangshan High-tech Zone after the establishment of Tangshan Robot Industry Investment Fund. The fund was officially established in November 2023, focusing on investing in high-quality projects related to robots and their upstream and downstream industries, helping Tangshan's robot industry to become bigger and stronger.
"Actually, we are a robot sales company. The purpose of opening a restaurant is to show customers the application scenarios of our products. Wang Chengyong told reporters that the replacement of manual cooking robots not only solves the problems of slow cooking, difficult to update dishes, and unstable taste, but also greatly saves the labor cost of the kitchen. At present, they have dozens of stir-fry robots, serving the canteens of enterprises and institutions in Tangshan.
The robot restaurant is a vivid embodiment of the development of the robot tandem industry in Tangshan High-tech Zone.
In recent years, Tangshan High-tech Zone has seized the beach to lay out the robot industry, focusing on building a new highland for intelligent manufacturing. At present, the total number of robot enterprises in the district has reached 198, accounting for more than 90% of the total number of robot enterprises in Tangshan.
"Robotics is not an isolated industry. We are focusing on market demand and implementing the 'Robot+' action plan. Dong Xuezhong, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of Tangshan High-tech Zone, said that five major industrial clusters led by robots, covering intelligent manufacturing, digital industry, safety and emergency, medicine and health, and new energy, have risen in Tangshan High-tech Zone.