ZAGREB: Craving gnocchi with lamb, black risotto or zucchini pasta? You can order any of them at a Croatian restaurant where a robotic chef is able to rustle up about 70 different one-pot meals.
Its owners say they believe the Bots&Pots Sci-Food Bistro in Zagreb is the world’s only restaurant where ready-to-eat meals in a pot are made by robotic cookers with no human involvement other than loading the devices with fresh ingredients.
The devices add oil and seasoning according to digital recipes made by a human chef.
In other similar restaurants, robots stir and fry chips and hamburgers, make pizzas or serve and deliver meals, but “there is no robot which makes a one pot meal from fresh food”, according to restaurant co-owner Hrvoje Bujas.
It took seven years for Bujas’ partners to turn an idea into reality and open the restaurant last year, after investing more than €1 million (US$1.07 million).
“It was indeed a challenge to make a ready-to-eat meal from fresh food in the shortest period of time as possible and as tasty as it can be,” Bujas told Reuters in the high-tech bistro.
Customers seem to agree.
“The food is top quality,” said Lovro Petar Andrisek, 18, who came to Bots&Pots as a treat for his birthday. “My plate is totally clean,” he laughed.
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