Fully automated restaurant cooks, serves noodles without staff
Fully automated restaurant cooks, serves noodles without staff
2026-02-24
Now there’s a noodle shop in Kaohsiung’s Lingya District that doesn’t need a single employee. From cooking to serving, a robot takes care of the entire order, whether it’s beef noodles or pork noodles. The owner said he got the idea because the labor shortage has made hiring difficult.
A robotic arm places down a bowl of piping hot noodles, ready for pickup.
The milky white pork broth looks like it’s been simmering for hours. Another bowl of beef noodles comes with big chunks of meat. Would you believe it was all made by a robot?
Customer
The broth is a little different from other places. They prepare it first, then it’s dispensed by the robot. The noodles are slightly chewy.
Wang Chun-hua
Owner
Every bowl is prepared fresh. The flour is kneaded into dough, then cut into strips and immediately cooked into a bowl of hot noodles.
Newly opened, this automated noodle shop in Kaohsiung’s Lingya District doesn’t need any staff at all. A robot takes care of cooking and serving all seven items on the menu. Customers first order from a kiosk, then wait for the robot to make their order. Vegetables are self-service, as are the pickles and spicy radish. If you don’t feel like noodles, the restaurant also has dumplings and braised food that you can microwave yourself.
Wang Chun-hua
Owner
Because of the increasingly severe labor shortage, it’s getting harder and harder to hire staff, which impacts service quality. That’s what inspired us to develop this AI noodle-making system.
As hiring becomes more difficult, restaurants have to adapt to survive. Like this one, some are turning to robots. Automation might be all the rage right now, but traditional restaurants aren’t worried about losing business.
Restaurant owner
He has his clientele and we have ours. We have a human touch. We make it ourselves and can chat with customers.
Restaurant owner
Of course traditional shops have a human touch. You can interact with people and chat.
These chefs might not be worried, but others are. Now that robots can cook, there might be even fewer jobs available in the future.
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高雄AI麵館沒店員 煮麵出餐全靠機器
2026-02-24
高雄市苓雅區今天有一間自動化麵館，整間店沒有員工，包括牛肉麵、豬肉麵，從煮麵到出餐全都靠機器，業者表示，因為餐飲業缺工，才想出這一套系統。
機器手臂夾出一碗熱騰騰的麵，放在取餐口。
白濁濃郁的豚骨湯汁，就像長時間熬煮出來的。另一碗牛肉麵還有大塊牛肉，包括麵條，你能想像整碗全都是靠機器做出來的嗎？
[[民眾]]
“湯頭是稍微不像外面的麵攤一樣，它是他們滷好的，然後就從機器拿出來，麵就有稍微QQ的感覺。”
[[自動化麵店業者 王俊華]]
“每一碗麵都是從現場，麵粉，然後揉成麵團，然後再切成麵條，然後馬上煮成一碗熱騰騰的麵。”
高雄市苓雅區這間新開幕的自動化麵館，整間店沒有員工，從煮麵到出餐全都靠機器，賣的是七款牛肉麵和豬肉麵。消費者來到店裡，先在機台點餐，等候機器煮麵，店裡還有蔬菜自助吧，提供酸菜、辣蘿蔔等小菜，不想吃麵，還可以點水餃或滷味，自己微波，一切自助。
[[自動化麵店業者 王俊華]]
“面臨所謂缺工的問題，這是蠻嚴重的，這個問題是越來越凸顯，缺工之後產生的服務品質的問題，所以我們來開發這一套的AI的製麵系統。”
餐飲業缺工，業者窮則變，變則通，派機器人上場救援。AI麵店，噱頭十足，但傳統麵店也不擔心會被搶生意。
[[麵店業者]]
“他有他的客層，我們有我們的客層。算有人情味，自己做，跟客戶可以說話。”
[[麵店業者]]
“傳統麵店當然會有人情味，跟人接觸，然後可以聊天等等。”
不過，不少廚師可能會擔心，現在連煮麵煮菜都有機器代勞，以後會不會沒有頭路。
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