Since the opening of”Seven Fresh Kitchen”, cooking robots have always received wide attention from the industry. Its innovative model of “robot cooking + exclusive takeout” precisely hits the long-standing efficiency problem in the Chinese food industry.
Recently, cooking robots have become a new focus of market attention!
Since the opening of “Seven Fresh Kitchen”, cooking robots have always been widely concerned by the industry. Its innovative model of “robot cooking + exclusive takeout” even more precisely hits the long-standing efficiency problem in the Chinese food industry.
It is reported that the cooking robot in “Seven Fresh Kitchen” can automatically heat oil, put in ingredients, and stir-fry. It can cook a dish in 3 minutes and serve 5 kilograms of food in 240 seconds.
In fact, has long had a connection with cooking robots.
In July 2024, Oak Deer Technology, a global cooking robot company, announced that it had received a strategic investment of nearly 200 million yuan from , and the two sides reached a deep cooperation in the field of catering intelligence. This investment from provides a solid technical support for the innovative business model of “Seven Fresh Kitchen”.
According to plan, it will open 10,000 “Seven Fresh Kitchens” across the country within three years, investing 10 billion yuan, and each store will be equipped with 4 robots as standard. This is likely to become the largest order for cooking robots in the world!
In June 2025, the “FOODOM Sky – dropped Food Kingdom” robot restaurant complex, built by Qianxi Robot Group under Country Garden, opened in Shunde, Guangdong.
According to the Intelligent Manufacturing Network, this all-robot restaurant covers an area of about 2,000 square meters, and more than 20 types of catering robots developed with independent core technologies, such as cooking robots, claypot rice robots, and dessert robots, were put into operation intensively. From greeting guests, taking orders, cooking, serving dishes to cleaning, the whole process is unmanned, which significantly improves the operation efficiency and customer experience.
In March 2025, Haidian District, Beijing, launched the country’s first application standard for embodied intelligence technology in the field of kitchen cooking and catering – “General Technical Requirements for Intelligent Cooking Robot Systems in Catering Equipment” (T/ZSA 288 – 2024).
It is worth noting that this is the first time that the “embodied intelligence technology” in the catering and kitchen cooking scenarios has been officially defined in the form of standard terms, clarifying the important parameters and performance requirements for the research and development, operation, and maintenance of robot systems containing this technology.
From the above, it can be seen that whether it is the introduction of standards, the opening of robot restaurant complexes, or the innovative model of ‘s “Seven Fresh Kitchen”, they have all opened up new market space for the development of the cooking robot industry.
Relevant public data shows that the global smart cooking robot market sales reached 3.151 billion US dollars in 2024, and it is expected to increase to 6.711 billion US dollars in 2031, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.6%. As the core participant in this market, China’s cooking robot industry market size exceeded 3 billion yuan in 2024, and it is expected to exceed 11 billion yuan by 2030.
In the future, with the deep integration of embodied intelligence, generative AI, and Internet of Things technology, as well as the continuous pursuit of cost control and efficiency improvement in the catering industry, cooking robots are expected to become the new favorite in the catering industry. We will be fortunate to witness the arrival of a new catering era dominated by smart cooking robots!
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