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title: "Robo Restaurant: Concept of the Future, or Already Here?"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/dd5fdb6d-65c2-47f8-8a1b-e04763c066e8
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/robo-restaurant-concept-of-the-future-or-already-here-2708929
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
topics: ["Technology"]
published: 2019-01-17T22:17:36.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:08:09.583Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/1eb08d9e5ceaadd8687ccd6c8f0b7e475605.jpg
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# Robo Restaurant: Concept of the Future, or Already Here?

**TL;DR:** Robo restaurants are using technology to improve food safety and efficiency, with robots like Flippy and Spyce's automated woks. This technology includes Flippy, a burger-flipping robot, and Spyce's MIT-engineered robot kitchen with automated woks.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-01-17. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/robo-restaurant-concept-of-the-future-or-already-here-2708929).*

## Story

While robots in restaurants’ kitchens may sound like the plotline of a sci-fi movie, technology is actually elevating food safety in our restaurants and other food businesses,” according to an article in QSR. This technology includes “Flippy, the world’s first burger-flipping robot, “launched March at a Caliburger restaurant in California” and capable of grilling 150 burgers per hour; the MIT-engineered robot kitchen of Spyce, a restaurant in Boston, where “seven automated woks cook guests’ meals in three minutes or less,” and more, according to the article.

In an age where food contamination, inefficiency and waste can sound the death knells for a restaurant concept, the option to automate elements of the business is especially appealing.

“There’s a major trend in the food service industry to remove humans from safety management and replace them with technological solutions, such as robots and sensors,” the article said. “In fact, tech tools—robotics and artificial intelligence, data analytics, the Internet of Things, etc.—are already having huge, positive implications for supply chain management and food safety. This is just the beginning,” according to the article.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- restaurant technology (topic)
- food safety (topic)
- automation (topic)
- MIT (company)
- robotics (topic)
- Spyce (company)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/robo-restaurant-concept-of-the-future-or-already-here-2708929). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/dd5fdb6d-65c2-47f8-8a1b-e04763c066e8).