Taiwan HORECA (Hotel Restaurant and Catering Show) was grandly held from June 26 to 29, 2024 in Taiwan Nangang Exhibition Hall. The exhibition is organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council and Chan Chao International Co., Ltd and co-organized by the Taiwan Commercial Kitchen Equipment Development Association, which is a large-scale catering equipment and supplies exhibition in Taiwan, China with considerable influence and popularity in the industry.

01   AI Food And Beverage Equipment Applications are Promising

With global inflationary pressure slowing down, the catering industry is experiencing strong growth. According to the statistics of the relevant Taiwanese authorities, the revenue of the entire catering industry in 2023 exceeded one trillion New Taiwan dollars, a record high. Major restaurant chains are opening stores one after another, and competition among restaurant groups is becoming increasingly fierce. As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, the catering industry is witnessing a surge in customer traffic, yet the labor shortage remains unabated. This persistent shortage is particularly concerning in light of the ongoing decline in the available workforce. In order to solve the problem of manpower shortage, catering business owners are rapidly adopting technological solutions such as cooking robots, delivery robots, and POS systems for real-world applications.

02   Intelligent Catering Equipment Zone: T-Chef Tech Gets Attention

In line with the trend of this exhibition, a new Smart Catering Equipment Zone has been added to assist practitioners in accelerating the application of digitized intelligent equipment in the catering industry, enhancing the consumer experience and solving the problem of talent shortage. In the Smart Catering Equipment Zone, T-Chef Tech’s impressive presence at the event garnered significant attention as it precisely addressed the needs of catering professionals, including back-office staffing challenges, management difficulties, inconsistent food quality, and low service efficiency. Their intelligent stir-fry robot and smart kitchen overall solution attracted numerous visitors who stopped by to inquire and seek advice. Many industry professionals expressed high appreciation for T-Chef Tech's products.

03   T-Chef Tech: The leader in Smart Kitchens

Shenzhen T-Chef Tech was founded in 2018, is a global leading cooking robot national high-tech and specializing in new enterprises, focusing on the research and development, production, sales and intelligent cooking equipment and intelligent kitchen overall solutions. So far, it has obtained three rounds of investment of nearly 100 million yuan from VC institutions, and has now applied for nearly 200 patents and software copyrights, etc. The company's cooking robot series products, intelligent seasoning and vending system and intelligent kitchen system, which have obtained authoritative certificates such as ETL, FCC, NSF, CE, etc., are sold in the catering market of mainland China, Hong Kong (China), Macau (China) and Taiwan (China), and are exported to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and North America, as well as other overseas markets. T-Chef Tech is designated by the China Cuisine Association as a research base for cooking intelligence and digitization, and won the 2022 Chinese Cuisine Science and Technology Progress Award.

In the future, T-Chef Tech will rely on the core technology of artificial intelligence + cooking digitization accumulated in the field of catering, and is committed to building a new catering ecosystem service system based on cooking robots + intelligent kitchens + cooking big data + cloud computing, and strive to improve the quality of human life.