"Robots Cook and AI Monitors Health"... Samsung Welstory Introduces Future-Oriented Corporate Cafeteria

Opening of 'Flagship Space' at Bundang Headquarters
Applying Personalization, Automation, and Intelligence to the Entire Meal Service Process

Samsung Welstory announced on the 14th that it has established a 'Flagship Space' at its headquarters in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, implementing personalized, automated, and intelligent solutions throughout the entire meal service process to realize a future-oriented corporate cafeteria.

Samsung Welstory's futuristic in-house cafeteria 'Flagship Space' cooking facility at the headquarters in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi Province [Photo by Samsung Welstory]

The Flagship Space consists of areas such as the 'Wellybot Zone,' where cooking robots prepare food; the 'Picky Pickers Market,' offering ready-to-eat meals through unmanned automatic payment; the 'Wellfit Lounge,' which provides healthcare solutions based on dining and health data; and the 'Open Lab,' a space for testing various food tech technologies.

The Wellybot Zone is a specialized cooking robot corner that includes the soup, stew, and broth cooking robot developed by Samsung Welstory in May?the first in the industry?along with newly added frying and noodle-specific cooking robots and an auto wok dedicated to stir-fried dishes.

The cooking robots in the Wellybot Zone apply robotics technology optimized for mass catering, producing one menu item every 10 seconds. The company expects this to resolve labor shortages among kitchen staff and provide high-quality meals that realize the dining-out experience in mass catering.

The Picky Pickers Market is a ready-meal corner equipped with an unmanned automatic payment solution, where an AI-based vision recognition system automatically tracks and digitizes the ready-meal products selected by customers.

Based on the data collected in this way, Samsung Welstory plans to identify product preferences by time of day to prevent stockouts in advance and analyze product groups tailored to customer characteristics to provide ready meals that meet customer needs.

The Wellfit Lounge is a space where nutrition coaching experts provide personalized healthcare solutions based on corporate cafeteria users' dining data and health data.

Customers can measure 20 types of body composition, including skeletal muscle and body fat, as well as seven skin condition factors such as pigmentation and wrinkles using deep learning AI technology in the Wellfit Lounge. They can also check 13 mental health indicators, including anxiety and stress, through vestibular organ sway imaging.

The health data and corporate cafeteria dining data measured in this way are automatically linked to Samsung Welstory's smart health management application. Based on this, nutrition coaching experts provide one-on-one personalized healthcare solutions such as customized diet recommendations, dietary coaching, and exercise suggestions.

Through this Flagship Space, Samsung Welstory has set a plan to present a future-oriented operational model for the meal service business and expand it to various workplaces.

A Samsung Welstory official stated, "Corporate cafeterias are rapidly evolving from labor-intensive models of the past to automated and intelligent forms. We will lead the way by setting the standard for future meal service models through an advanced meal operation model that not only solves a simple meal but also provides personalized health management solutions for each customer."