Don’t worry about taste, this ‘futuristic’ wok will take care

Cloud kitchen start-up Rebel Foods, which runs some 350 web kitchens housing 10-12 restaurant manufacturers every, has turned to IoT-enabled good cookware to ace the style consistency take a look at.

Imagine a wok that may cook dinner, management temperatures, add elements and perceive the pace of toss, all by itself. The worker managing the machine simply has to decide on the dish he desires it to cook dinner. That’s Wokie, the IoT- enabled good wok developed in-house by Rebel Foods, which owns manufacturers together with Faasos, Oven Story, Behrouz Biryani, Firangi Bake, Sweet Truth, and Mandarin Oak.

Patented pots & pans

Raghav Joshi, Co-founder and CEO (India BU), Rebel Foods, informed
BusinessLine, “ Finding the best employees with the best skill-set throughout 350 areas and managing that ability degree for consistency turns into an inherent problem. This is the place our funding in {hardware} goes in, to construct capabilities like this wok, which may routinely regulate temperatures and the pace of the toss so that you just get that good bowl of noodles.”

Joshi says the corporate has additionally developed a fryer that is aware of how you can preserve the temperature of the oil, how lengthy to fry an merchandise after which to deliver it.

The firm has utilized for patents for these at the same time as it’s creating a couple of extra such good cooking utensils.

Not simply the {hardware}, Rebel has been strengthening its play on the software program aspect as properly. It has created its personal working system and permits third get together manufacturers to make use of its OS and scale their enterprise throughout the nation utilizing its cloud kitchen community.

“Some time the chef isn’t all the time 100 per cent certain about a specific recipe. The software program, at a click on of a button, lets the chef entry the recipe and its video. The meals will get bar-coded and scanned to make sure nothing will get missed out. The buyer may also observe the supply boy, see his temperature within the EatSure app,” he provides, describing how the corporate’s expertise group doubled within the final one yr, and there are plans to rent extra.

Expansion plans

Including India, Rebel Foods operates in 10 international locations throughout Europe, West and South-East Asia. Countries like Indonesia have emerged one in all its high markets exterior India. In the subsequent 6-8 months, the corporate is trying to increase to a different 10 international locations with over 150 web kitchens.

In the previous 3-4 months, the corporate had expanded to fifteen cities in India, taking the overall to 50, and it desires to increase its footprint to 50 extra cities in 6-8 months.