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Robots Are Serving Spicy Soup at Haidilao’s Hotpot Restaurants
- Haidilao partners with Panasonic on robot-staffed restaurants
- Automation to help chain open as many as 5,000 outlets
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In Haidilao International Holding Ltd.’s hotpot restaurants, robots are replacing chefs and waiters.
Asia’s biggest listed restaurant chain by market value is partnering with Japan’s Panasonic Corp. to open what the two companies say is the world’s first eatery with a fully automated kitchen Oct. 28 in Beijing. At the new Haidilao restaurant, robots will take orders, prepare and deliver raw meat and fresh vegetables to customers to plop into soups prepared at their tables.