We believe that there's no future where this isn't automated
Reliance on labor is an existential threat for food companies as labor becomes harder to hire and retain.
Traditional Automation Doesn’t Work
Dispensers and fixed automation only work for low-mix SKU production where these machines are given one task to repeat over and over.
Dispensers aren’t capable of handling high SKU mix, rapid line changeovers and cleaning times, menu changes, and the rapid rate of onboarding new meals.
Humans can handle high SKU mix, line changeovers, and menu changes, but it’s extremely hard to hire and retain humans. This leads to food facilities running under capacity and leaving revenue on the table. What if there was an alternative?
The Chef AI-Enabled Robot
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Built for the Flexibility Your Operation Needs
Chef’s AI-enabled systems are designed with high-mix in mind. The system is designed to provide the flexibility of a person with the performance and reliability of a machine.
ChefOS works with:
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Powered by Modern AI: ChefOS
Chef leverages modern advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision to deal with the variety intrinsic to food.
ChefOS dynamically picks based on the particular ingredient and its properties, the pan topography, how the ingredient was cooked and prepped on that particular day.
ChefOS also detects and tracks the trays as they move down the line. Chef can re-train these models to place into any tray, into any compartment, and on any conveyor.
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Amy’s Kitchen leveraged Chef to improve product consistency of runs by 12%, lower food giveaway by 4%, and increase labor productivity by 17%.
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Read about how Chef Bombay (a contract manufacturer) reduced deposit standard deviation by 30%, reduced food giveaway by 88%, increased labor productivity by 33%, and increased throughput by 9%.
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Within 3 weeks of signing an initial contract, Chef started production and has since helped Sunbasket increase consistency by 25% and free up 10% of the staff it takes to do a run to allow them to take on other tasks.
The same footprint as a human, no complex integration necessary
Each Chef robot occupies the same footprint as a human and is on casters. All they need to operate is 120V, compressed air, and a Wi-Fi connection. This means that Chef’s Systems don’t require retrofitting; just slide them onto the line and run. The robots can even be moved from one line to another during a shift, helping you to maximize their utilization.
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Works safely alongside humans
Further, Chef leverages collaborative robots and was designed to work safely alongside humans by ISO/TS 15066: 2016. Chef allows you to partially automate a line, enabling humans and robots to work side-by-side. The robots empower humans to be more efficient.
An extremely simple way to run the System
We’ve designed Chef to be able to be run by a line manager on the floor. Simply tell the System what meal and ingredient you’re running, install a utensil, and run.
The System can be run in multiple languages too.
Ergonomic and zero-downtime refill
The Chef System is designed to be easily used while minimizing heavy lifting and labor.
Each System comes with two pans. As soon as one pan is empty, the robot will pick out of the other pan. A refiller can pull out the initial pan.
5 minute changeover
To changeover, remove the last utensil you used, select the new meal you want to run, load the new utensil and pans of food, and you’re ready for the next run.
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Designed with food safety in mind
The only parts of the Chef robots with direct food contact are the robot’s utensils and the off-the-shelf hotel pans. These utensils can be changed out in seconds before the next run.
Pick weight accuracy and QA
Chef has takeaway scales underneath each hotel pan. These allow us to measure the weight of each deposit.
We then combine these with AI and thus can improve the quality of each successive pick based on past picks.
This means more consistency for your customers, less giveaway, higher yield, less food waste, and higher margins.
Placement accuracy QA
Chef also leverages this vision system to take snapshots before and after a deposit to do QA on the placement quality.
This means better placement, less spillage, and more aesthetically pleasing meals.
Data on every single deposit
Chef has data pipelines that connect the systems at your facility to the cloud. That means you have data on every single pick that your robots do, 24/7.
We help take our customers into the age of data and AI.
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Service Anywhere in the World, Whenever You Need It
Chef is cloud-connected and our service technicians can resolve issues remotely 24/7. If on-site help is needed, Chef can have a technician there within hours, anywhere in the world via Chef’s partnership with a 3rd party service org with 15,000 technicians across the world.
With Chef, you don’t pay a high CapEx upfront
Instead, Chef acts like a robotic staffing agency. You pay a flat yearly fee for less than what you’re paying per station today. We take care of the hardware, software, service, software updates, and hardware updates.
You get a System that just works.
Why Should You Care?
The food companies that embrace AI and flexible automation early will outperform their competitors across measures of quality, consistency, accuracy, throughput, and cost.
Chef is ROI Positive Year 1
These ROI outcomes combined with RaaS mean that you save money year one with Chef.
($110k / 2 shifts)
How does it work?
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We’ll provide you with on-site support
No two facilities are the same. Our engineers will act like your outsourced robotics division - we’ll work hand in hand with you to ensure that you get a system that will work for your needs.
We’ll configure the System to your needs
Our engineers will configure Chef to your ingredients, your portions, your trays, your placement requirements, and your conveyors.
You only pay the RaaS fee after Chef works
We’ll fly out, deploy the System, train your staff, and do a site acceptance test.
We’ll monitor your systems 24/7
Included in your fee, you’ll get full operational support for your systems: 24/7 remote support, part replacement, bug fixes, software updates, software upgrades, hardware updates, hardware upgrades, and preventative maintenance.
Our goal is to help transform your business
We’ll work closely with you to ensure your robots are utilized and to figure out the best path to successfully scale and bring you into the era of AI.
Our Vision
Our vision is that over time, we can automate more and more of the jobs that humans don’t want to do, freeing humans to do more humane jobs.
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We would love to collaborate with you