Named “Robotic Chef Chulchul Field,” South Korea’s first unmanned merchandising machine will serve up sizzling ready meals on demand

FULLERTON, Calif. and SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Pulmuone, the biggest tofu firm on the planet and makers of America’s main tofu manufacturers together with Nasoya and Wildwood, right this moment introduced the launch of Robotic Chef Chulchul Field, a merchandising machine idea powered by Yo-Kai Categorical that may provide sizzling connoisseur meals prepared in simply 90 seconds. Robotic Chef Chulchul Field builds on Pulmuone’s present preliminary success within the unmanned merchandising machine class inside the USA, and can now attain a bigger international market by providing South Korean shoppers a brand new option to get pleasure from high-quality meals on the go.

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“As shoppers search wholesome meals on the go, Pulmuone is thrilled to launch a first-of-its-kind autonomous meal answer merchandising machine,” mentioned Sung Yoon Nam, VP of Gross sales at Pulmuone. “Our strategic partnership with Yo-Kai Categorical permits us to convey our high quality merchandise to shoppers throughout the globe, all accessible and prepared inside seconds on the push of a button with the brand new Robotic Chef Chulchul Field.”

Revolutionizing handy, connoisseur meals, the machines will characteristic six premium dishes, together with three noodle dishes (Tonkotsu Ramen, Jjambbong, Yukgaejang Noodles) and three rice dishes (Dak Gomtang, Naju Gomtang, Yukgaejang) all that includes Pulmuone elements. The genuine Asian dishes can be found on the contact of a button and provide restaurant-quality flavors and textures. The Robotic Chef Chulchul Field machine includes a touch-screen menu and a cooking chamber that robotically opens and closes as soon as meals are prepared and inventory of cutlery.

Starting in October, Robotic Chef Chulchul Field merchandising machines might be accessible at company services and universities all through South Korea, together with Seoul Nationwide College Hospital and the Seoul Metropolitan Police Company, with enlargement to inns, museums and intensive enlargement at different public areas all through the nation anticipated later this yr together with unmanned company catering markets and Store-in-Store places. Pulmuone may also be conducting demonstrations and tastings at meals expositions all through South Korea to preview the machines. Yo-Kai Categorical can be creating a mannequin to create device-specific merchandise and deal with direct distribution in South Korea.

Pulmuone entered the unmanned gross sales platform in 2019 with Chulchul BoxSmart Showcase, which presents frozen handy meals, and Chulchul Field Good Merchandising Machine, which offers handy refrigerated choices. The introduction of Robotic Chef Chulchul Field expands Pulmuone’s merchandising machine choices to incorporate sizzling ready-to-eat gadgets together with broth and rice-based meals.

The launch is the results of a profitable ongoing partnership between Pulmuone and Yo-Kai Categorical, a meals tech startup specializing in autonomous restaurant options. Pulmuone’s tofu model, Nasoya, teamed up with Yo-Kai Categorical at CES in 2022 to characteristic Nasoya’s Plantspired® Steak in Yo-Kai Categorical machines. Yo-Kai Categorical merchandising machines are presently accessible in the USA at almost 130 places at universities, inns, hospitals, factories, airports and Fortune 500 workplaces providing Korean meals and plant-based merchandise. Increasing its partnership, Pulmuone has now secured unique rights to leverage Yo-Kai Categorical’s expertise to gas the launch of Robotic Chef Chulchul Field in South Korea, enabling Pulmuone to supply sizzling meals choices at merchandising machines for the primary time. Pulmuone Meals USA was additionally a lead investor for Yo-Kai Categorical’ Collection A funding.

“By combining Pulmuone’s experience in wholesome, pure meals merchandise with our cutting-edge automated meals merchandising expertise, we’re excited to convey forth a brand new period of handy and nutritious meals for shoppers,” mentioned Andy Lin, founder and CEO of Yo-Kai Categorical. “This collaboration demonstrates how synergistic partnerships can revolutionize the way in which individuals method meals consumption.”

Pulmuone continues to increase its U.S. choices with a concentrate on Asian-inspired meals, lots of that are additionally accessible throughout the USA by way of Yo-Kai Categorical merchandising machines, together with a Mapo Rice Bowl launch deliberate for later this yr.

ABOUT PULMUONE FOODS USA

Pulmuone Meals USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pulmuone South Korea, is house to a household of manufacturers that features all kinds of scrumptious merchandise impressed by up to date taste palates that encourage a wholesome and sustainable way of life. Amid the rising international demand for plant-based protein meals, Pulmuone Meals USA is main the US tofu market with an almost 70 % market share with beloved manufacturers like Nasoya and Wildwood. Pulmuone manufacturers additionally embrace Emerald Valley Kitchen, Monterey Gourmand Meals and a line of Pulmuone-branded Asian-inspired merchandise accessible at mass grocery shops and main membership channels all through the USA. For extra data, go to pulmuonefoodsusa.com.

ABOUT YO-KAI EXPRESS

Yo-Kai Categorical (YKE) is a quickly rising international meals tech startup with workplaces in Northern California, Japan and Taiwan. YKE is redefining connoisseur autonomous restaurant options utilizing patented expertise it developed to carry out last-mile cooking of an array of each cold and hot, savory and candy menu picks. YKE first launched robotic platform, constructed for high-traffic areas similar to airports and ski resorts, in 2018, providing gadgets as steaming sizzling bowls of Tonkotsu ramen 24 hours a day and in below a minute. For extra data, go to yokaiexpress.com/about.

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