First Pop-Up Restaurant with AI Design Opened

Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly advancing in various fields. Restaurateurs have also enlisted the help of technology in an attempt to redefine the human experience in a food court. Applejack Hospitality, a culinary consultancy in Sydney, launched the "Create Your Dream Restaurant" competition in March 2023 to introduce rapidly evolving AI to the restaurant industry.

The competition, held between March and April 2023, invited participants to submit a restaurant concept that would operate using artificial intelligence tools. Applejack promised that the winner's concept will be realised by them. Perth-based Stefanie Wee beat out hundreds of competitors with her AI-generated restaurant idea called Luminary. This winning concept was brought to life at RAFI in Sydney between 29 July and 5 August 2023.

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A Restaurant Inspired by the Four Elements of Nature

The concept of 'lighting' focuses on the four elements of nature, namely "air, water, fire and earth". These elements are used in the lighting design to create an immersive experience and a food and beverage menu with dishes based on these four themes. The new AI restaurant demonstrated how lighting, haze and LED technology can stimulate a customer's senses. The concept was created with the help of ChatGPT and Canva AI. ChatGPT is a text-based AI-powered language model that can produce human-like responses when given commands. And Canva AI is an online text-to-image generator. The restaurant had an 'under the sea' atmosphere with coral-like orange lamps and seaweed-like potted plants hanging from the ceiling.