An adult eats for 10 minutes and swallows about 50 times. In one day, the total number of swallows is about 580, and the amount of saliva secreted is about 1000ml, which is equivalent to two bottles of mineral water.
However, the seemingly ordinary act of "swallowing" is difficult for the elderly.
An investigation shows that the incidence of "dysphagia" among the elderly over 65 years old is 15%~30%. Among the elderly surveyed, 67% could not confirm whether they had "dysphagia".
It can be seen that "dysphagia" is very common among the elderly. Moreover, many people do not know that they have "dysphagia". In the mild cases, normal eating and nutrition absorption may be affected, and in the severe cases, food may be inhaled into the trachea by mistake, causing aspiration pneumonia.
It can be said that "dysphagia" is seriously affecting the health and quality of life of the elderly.
If you describe it like this, you can't feel it.
Imagine that you love pearls, milk tea, instant noodles, hot pot, rice, big plate chicken... when these delicacies are hard to swallow, is there no sense of happiness?
01."Smart pension" mode is opened
In order to solve the problem of difficult meals for the elderly, the government issued the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of High Quality Elderly Care Services (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions).
In order to actively respond to the aging of the population, in the face of problems such as the overall quality of elderly care services is not high, the comprehensive regulatory mechanism is not perfect, and the elderly care services are weak, 26 specific work measures are proposed, mainly focusing on 5 aspects:
1、 Strive to improve the supply capacity of elderly care services; 2、 Vigorously promote the integration of medical care and nursing care; 3、 Promote the quality and efficiency of elderly care services; 4、 Strive to optimize the business environment for the elderly; 5、 Improve the elderly care service supervision and security system
The third point of the Opinions is to "promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of elderly care services". The government has put forward specific measures mainly from seven aspects: carrying out artificial intelligence elderly care, aging adaptation, expanding the scope of elderly care service subsidies, building community canteens for the elderly, implementing the "elderly care service consultant" system, and strengthening the construction of universities for the elderly.
It can be seen that in the face of pension related problems caused by the growing trend of population aging, the "smart pension" model endorsed by the government has provided future solutions.
In Sanmin Community, Jianghan District, Wuhan, there is an elderly care service center (Yiyue in the auspicious year), which has an independent kitchen for meals. This is a "elderly canteen" specially built by Shenzhen T-Chef Technology Co., Ltd. for the elderly.
The difference between it and the ordinary canteen is that the kitchen of the ordinary canteen is cooked by many chefs in a smoky and burning environment after professional food training, and it is difficult to unify the production standard of dishes. The "Elderly Canteen" is a cooking robot that restores the chef's skills according to the program prepared in advance, which can achieve the standardization and intelligence of dishes.
It breaks through the limitation that the original chefs provide services for the elderly in limited time and fixed dishes, which enables each elderly person to eat standardized customized dishes, as well as taste delicious dishes from different regions, increasing the richness of dish selection.
The menu of the "Elderly Canteen" was jointly developed by the T-Chef brand, the chefs of its food research and development center and nutrition experts, and was customized to meet the taste and health requirements of the elderly.
The recipe includes cooking methods such as braising, stewing, stewing, boiling, and braising, which can ensure that the dishes are soft and glutinous, while retaining the original flavor and nutrition of the food.
Not only that, this new intelligent canteen can also prevent the kitchen safety problems caused by the elderly cooking alone. It can be said that it is convenient and beneficial for the people, so that the elderly can also enjoy modern black technology.
However, the T-Chef brand needs to do more than that.
02.Give professional things to professional people
Chinese cuisine has always been regarded as an abstract art rather than a concrete science by many people.
How hot is it? How much is an appropriate amount? What kind of oil is broad oil? What kind of gas is pot gas?
In the catering culture of high context, the language of Chinese dishes is more implicit and restrained, and even generates a lot of code words that outsiders do not understand, thus drawing a "Chu River Han Border" between insiders and outsiders.
This has also created a sense of mystery and charm of Chinese food, but throughout the Chinese catering industry, food standardization has always been a difficult challenge for enterprises to overcome.
Especially more than ten years ago, the amount of liquid seasoning, temperature and cooking time of dishes were estimated by experience and could not be quantified.
Geng Kaiping, founder of Zhigu Tianchu brand, observed that in the livelihood industry with a market scale of 5 trillion and nearly 30 million employees, manual workshop production and cooking relying on personal experience are the norm.
Chinese cooking is a physical activity. Chefs have to deal with pots and pans, salt, soy sauce and vinegar every day in a sultry environment. Most of the kitchen staff are monotonous and repetitive, with a poor sense of professional happiness.
Therefore, in order to improve the above environment, the T-Chef brand has developed a sediment cooking robot for 18 years, focusing on the R&D, production and sales of intelligent cooking equipment for Chinese dishes, as well as the overall solution of smart kitchen.
Since its establishment, the company has attracted much attention. It has obtained two rounds of investment of tens of millions of yuan from VC institutions. Most of the team members are post-90s. They are full of passion and vitality. They give full play to the advantages of first-class talents and advanced technology, and deeply cultivate the field of intelligent catering.
The aim is to enable chefs' cooking skills with science and technology, export the industry's standardized big data platform for the industry, create a new catering industry ecological service system based on cooking robots+smart kitchens+cooking big data+cloud computing, promote standardized cooking with intelligent structure, solve the needs of practitioners in the catering industry at this stage, and improve the industry's happiness.
T-Chef brand provides 14 cooking robots for Chinese catering enterprises, including intelligent sales system and intelligent kitchen system. It has applied for more than 50 patents, authorized 24, and won the honors of "Economic Observer 2021 Outstanding Innovation Leader" and "Outstanding Manufacturing Innovation Enterprise".
At present, several marketing operation centers have been set up in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Changsha and other places. It is popular in the catering market in mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as overseas markets such as Singapore, Southeast Asia and the United States. It has deep cooperation with large enterprises such as Coral, Xibei and Daoxiang.
As a pioneer of innovation in the catering industry, enterprises play the role of service, equipment and platform suppliers in this process, and are also creators of diversified experiences and practitioners of digital economic transformation.
The introduction of the cooking robot means lower store operating costs, more stable production, more standardized management and faster replication and expansion for catering managers.
In terms of technology B, this also confirms the prediction in McKinsey's 2016 industry automation report:
“Accommodation and food services are the most likely to be automated out of all jobs and industries. Because of the high proportion of predictable manual labor in such services, machines are perfectly capable of doing their jobs.
Accommodation and catering services are the most likely to be replaced by automation in all types of work and industries. Because of the high proportion of predictable physical labor in such services, machines are fully capable of their work. "
With the help of science and technology, cooking robots have brought more communication orientation and possibilities for food.
Whether as a technological innovation or the next window for the digital transformation of the catering industry, it has created norms, efficiency, value and other elements while delivering the ability to tell the story.
Because technology can prevent us from telling wrong stories, but stories are still the way we understand life.
