Alibaba's local life platform Word of Mouth and the tea brand Happy Lemon launched the first unmanned smart milk tea store in Shanghai and launched the first tea-making robot.
Milk tea robot
This store is located in Shanghai ASE Center, covering an area of about 6 square meters. In the store, customers only need to take out their mobile phones and use the word of mouth APP to scan the code to order, and then they can choose the milk tea flavor, ice content and sugar content by themselves. After the payment is completed, the tea-making robot starts to prepare milk tea, and then puts the milk tea until the meal is taken. Cabinet, the whole process does not require manual participation.
6 square meters unmanned smart milk tea store
At present, it takes an average of 90 seconds to make a cup of tea in smart stores, which is equivalent to the time required for artificial tea. The tea-making robot can provide customers with 8 kinds of tea drinks, and can adjust the preferences of customers for ice and sugar content. There are a total of more than 40 customized combinations.
It is understood that the "Leimeng No. 1" tea-making robot launched this time is dominated by Happy Lemon and Word of Mouth. It has been developed and completed together with high-quality ISVs in the industry. It took more than 7 months. From the beginning of the order, the robot can complete the selection alone. A series of processes such as feeding, mixing, sealing, labeling, and notifying pick-up. In the future, tea production efficiency and tea varieties will continue to be optimized.
Regarding the use of robots to replace artificial tea, Li Zongyi, deputy general manager of Happy Lemon Marketing Headquarters, said that in general, traditional milk tea shops are highly mobile, and different levels of tea production will make milk tea taste uneven. With the tea-making robot, only one employee is required to replenish and clean, and the proportion of ingredients, mixing time and frequency are accurately calculated, which can ensure the taste of milk tea.
Word-of-mouth said that more smart stores of Happy Lemon and Word-of-mouth are in preparation, and stores will be opened in more core cities in the future. The next stop is Hangzhou. If you want to experience robot milk tea, friends in other cities need to wait.
