+ What is your name?

Daniel

+ Are you submitting as a team or as an individual?

Team submission

+ Where are you located?

DC + Beyond

+ In one sentence, tell us about your idea.

We have a mature and market ready robotic cooking & micro-retail hardware & software for ready-to-eat meals for hospitality companies and chain restaurants.

+ Describe your ideal collaborative partner or partners.

I'm looking for partners with strong business development in U.S. hospitality industry and chain restaurants at the corporate level.

+ What is the most immediate or most pressing challenge you're facing right now?

Top challenge is to break into the hospitality industry & chain restaurants at the corporate level.

+ What is it about your idea that makes you feel good?

To empower casual dining with industrial automation and efficiency, and help hospitality and chain restaurants owners solve the labor shortage problem.

+ What makes your idea innovative? Why has no one ever done it before?

Labor shortage is becoming an immediate challenge threatening the sustainability and growth of the hospitality and quick service restaurants industry. Both the U.S. supply chain for food processing and the front end chain restaurants operations are mature and highly developed. It is the gap in back kitchen operations as we call the food preparation "last-mile problem" that jeopardizing the whole industry's survival and growth. It takes years of efforts and technology advancements in researching and developing the appropriate workstation cooking automation to work with all kinds of food preparation in back kitchen operations. Through years of R&D efforts, we have developed the most advanced cooking automation that works with a variety of food categories.

+ Who will benefit the most from your idea?

people with strong relationships and business development expertise in hospitality industry and chain restaurants companies.

+ Ideally, when would you launch this idea?

I've already launched my idea

+ Indicate which UN goals your idea relates to?

No Poverty, Good Health and Well-being, Responsible Consumption and Production, Partnerships to achieve the Goal, Reduced Inequality, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Climate Action

+ At Sigmund, we are interested in ideas at the intersection of People, Planet, and Profit. How does your idea relate to these three categories?

we are leveraging researching and development in robotic cooking hardware and software to empower casual dining with automation and efficiency. By doing so, we are reducing the waste and contamination in food preparation process and relieving owners and operators from tedious and repetitive back kitchen operations and helping them maintain the food quality and standards, while focus on better serving consumers in the front end. We build our cooking robot as a service into restaurants and hospitality companies' operating expense, and help them save cost and waste in food preparation and achieve better operating margin in the long run.

+ Your website URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvqj9MdDDXc&t=1s https://www.kenta.co/