Automation in Fast Food Kitchens | Top 05 New Trends To Look Out For In 2024
Have you noticed that freshly cut and mashed spices are more tasteful than the ones pre-cut and pre-bagged?
If you cook your own food, you might be familiar with this, which is why we see a ton of cooking movies where the chefs do all the mashing manually before sprinkling them onto their food prep. They say it’s their “Secret Recipe” but now you know the secret.
Now, doing things manually, well, it will take a lot of time and effort. So, we got automation in the kitchen to get us the best tastes without half the effort.
The automation in the food kitchens started as slicers and fryers but has now certainly evolved to sophistication. How?
Read on ahead for the top 05 new trends in fast-food kitchens that show all the automation and then some more to bring you all the amazing tastes that only manual labor used to get you before.
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New Trends In Fast Food Kitchens
01. Food Flippers
Flippy is one of our favorites when it comes to automation in fast-food kitchens. Developed by Miso Robotics, Flippy is an automatic basket flipper for fast food items; there’s still much more to it though!
Chipotle uses a version of it called “Chippy” to make 180 bowls each hour instead of their manual ability of 20-30 bowls!
02. Bread Bakers
BreadBot is a bread-baking bot, fully automated in its entirety. It makes a loaf of bread from scratch – mixing, forming, baking, cooling – all done on its own, starting from scratch.
It is programmable to cook 10 loaves every hour, on the hour, for the entire 24 hours! All it needs is a 30-minute daily cleaning and it’s ready to yield 235 loaves every day.
03. Pizza Makers
We all can agree that there’s an unbearable heat inside the pizza-making kitchen. So, an automated pizza maker was expected to arrive sooner or later. Which it has, and sooner as well rather than later.
With the ability to make over 100 pizzas per hour, xPizza cube for XRobotics can make your pizzas with the top 03 ingredients such as sauce, cheese, and pepperoni!
04. Robotic Servers
Robotic servers escort customers to their seats; don’t worry, they have the human interaction factor as well (only if you want). BellaBot is a robotic server that can also wait on customers and bring them food to their tables. They include the option for human faces or as well as cats, who can say no to the kitties, right?
And we did the math on this one: it costs $15,900 which you can recover from the cost of hiring a single full-time employee within 3 and a half years. Keep in mind that these robots don’t tire, have no labor laws, and can work 24/7.
05. Menu Planning
Menu planning has also evolved into much more than just intuition or even Excel sheets thanks to predictive analytics.
With the help of data, you can understand and predict items on your menu that are popular, about to go out, or about to have a lot of demand owing to trends, seasonal or otherwise.
You can utilize big data and make data-backed decisions to predict trends and plan your menu accordingly.
Final Thoughts
We have covered only 05 of the top new trends in fast-food kitchens in 2024, you can be sure to see many more. Like the self-service Kiosks that have been known to boost 30% more sales, online reservation systems, table management software, and more.
We’ll be covering those too, so make sure you keep up with Cameocafe which brings all the news, tips, and easy recipes for your favorite foods right to your fingertips. See you on the other side!
