The restaurant industry is increasingly using robots for cooking and serving, aiming to alleviate labor shortages in South Korea

Kyochon F&B, which operates the fried chicken chain "Kyochon," will hold briefing sessions on the introduction of the "Chicken Robot" for franchise owners nationwide from the end of October to mid-November.
It was held five times. The Chicken Robot handles six baskets of fried chicken at the same time and can fry up to 24 pieces of fried chicken per hour.
In May, the catering company Samsung Well Story collaborated with the food tech company Robotech to set up a "Well Ribot" corner using cooking robots in the company cafeteria at its headquarters.
did. Fellow company Our Home will also introduce coffee-making robots to its cafe at its headquarters in December. Jeong Soyoun, chief researcher at the Korea Food Service Industry Research Institute, said, ``The rapid rise in minimum wages has caused
In order to resolve the labor shortage, reducing the workforce is an issue for the restaurant industry." In December 2019, CJ Food Building opened the family restaurant "Bips"
The company introduced Korea's first noodle-cooking robot at its Deungchon store. Currently, 27 out of 28 stores nationwide are using this robot, and as of August this year, all stores are using serving robots.
are using. A company official said, ``With the introduction of robots, we are working to improve the quality of our service by taking over simple repetitive labor and allowing store staff to focus on customer management.''