Inside the robotic kitchen revolution. Meet Kaikaku's Josef Chen

Restaurants are struggling with rising costs and vanishing margins. Josef Chen, co-founder and CEO of Kaikaku, believes automation can save the industry – by freeing humans up to deliver real hospitality again.Kaikaku’s “restaurant in a box” uses robotics, vision systems and nutritional data to make fresh, personalised food at scale. Josef shows Harriet how Kaikaku’s robotic kitchens, proprietary OS and AI system “Alesia” make it possible to serve fresh food at speed – and why the UK is the perfect place to build hardware for a new food economy.We talk:Why restaurant chains can’t afford real food — and how Kaikaku can fix it“No future-proofing”: building tech fast in real environmentsHow robots and humans collaborate in the kitchenWhat AI-driven nutrition could mean for public healthWhy the UK is a hardware powerhouse againCheck out Kaikaku:https://kaikaku.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaikaku-ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/josef-chen/More on Basis:https://www.buildbasis.com/https://www.youtube.com/@BasisCapitalhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/basiscapitalltd/https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrietsgreen/