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Process

If we look into the food process in a restaurant. There won’t change a lot at the moment you implement 3D food printing. The current process in restaurants is as follows. A client is taking a seat and will make a choice what he would like to eat. In the meantime, there will be some food already prepared in advance by some chefs. The client will decide what he would like to eat and will inform the waiter. The waiter will inform the chefs about the choice of the client. The chefs are then making the court ready in the kitchen and serve it to the waiter. 3D food printing will only have an impact on the way of preparing food, especially on the time management. It depends, in which way 3D printing is getting implemented and on what scale what things eventually will make some differences in the process. If it’s getting implemented on a small scale it won’t have a lot of consequences. If it’s getting implemented on a large scale, there it will have some consequences. 3D printing of food doesn’t need human effort. This will have a consequence. Besides, purchasing and supply chain management will change. In order to prepare food in restaurants in the normal way, a lot of food needs to be purchased in advance. Because the process with 3D printer is much more efficient, restaurants don’t need that much resources anymore.

Control

Things that are important for restaurants to keep an eye on are the amount of food waste and the performance of the food making process. The amount of waste will reduce, when preparing food with a 3D printer because this process is much more efficient. There won’t be any waste when you produce food with a 3D printer. Besides this, the performance of the food making process will increase. In the normal way of producing, it is simply all done by humans. Therefore, the performance can’t be 100%. Not every court will taste the same way. Working with a 3D printer will increase the performance. Because his technology every court can be made at the exact same way and quality.

Organisation

Organisation

To say something about organization, it’s also important to know on what scale 3D printing will be implemented in a restaurant. 3D printing on a small scale won’t have a lot of consequences at the organization. 3D printing on a larger scale, will have some consequences. Tasks will change. The responsibilities of people in the kitchen of a restaurant will change. Because 3D printing will take less effort of humans than the regular way of cooking, restaurants won’t need that much employees anymore. But still there will be kind of an hierarchy, because the food always need to get checked. Because of that, the culture in a restaurant won’t change.