Production system for individual freshly cooked meals

摘要

A food preparation system 1 comprises a plurality of ingredient delivery stations 310 to deliver ingredients to a cooking vessel receiving area 301. A cooking vessel 200 is transferred from the cooking vessel receiving area 310 to a further ingredient delivery station 311 and then to one of a plurality of heating stations 101. The vessel 200 is then transferred to a service position 75 where the cooked ingredients are transferred to a serving vessel. The cooking vessel 200 is transferred between the ingredient delivery station 310, the heating station 101, the user station 76, and the service position 75 by automated transfer means (20, 30, 50, Fig. 1). The system may also have an automated cooking vessel washing station (80, 90, Fig. 1). The automated transfer means may be a robotic arm (20, Fig. 1). An automatic controller may operate the system 1 by receiving recipe data from a memory. The system is particularly suitable for the simultaneous production of individually specified dishes.