Mezli is a fully-autonomous robotic restaurant in San Francisco that claims to be the first to offer a customisable, hot menu to customers with no on-site workers. The restaurant was founded by Stanford engineers who teamed up with Michelin-star chef Eric Minnich to offer a convenient, affordable and healthy food option.
Customers place orders of customised Mediterranean food bowls at a bank of digital screens and a robotic production line heats the food and fills the bowl, which can be collected from a numbered locker. The only human involvement is a once-daily delivery of fresh ingredients into different compartments inside the system.
“By developing our menu alongside our technology, we’ve been able to both create custom-tailored robotics to serve our food at the highest possible level of freshness and quality, and build a menu well-adapted to our robot’s abilities,” the company states.After the trial in San Francisco the company hopes to roll out across the US.