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  • JD.com’s First Robot Restaurant Now Open in Tianjin

    JD.com’s First Robot Restaurant Now Open in Tianjin

    Chinese online retailer JD has opened its first fully automated robot restaurant in Tianjin. The 400sqm venue has opened as “XCafe” at the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, an area of Tianjin dedicated to environmental sustainability. XCafe is the first fully-automated restaurant in China, with all aspects of ordering, preparing, cooking, plating and serving performed by robots, which can work a full day on a single charge. Five or six human staff are still required to refill and position ingredients for the robot chefs.

    XCafe’s manager Tang Siyu said the restaurant can seat about 300 guests for dinner, with a table turnover rate of three turns per table during the lunch or dinner hour. It currently serves around 40 predominantly stir-fry dishes, with a potential full menu of more than 200 offerings.

    The restaurant also features VR interactive games and immersive dining experience areas.

    JD plans to open 1000 robot restaurants by 2020 and is seeking to promote the technology to other catering firms.

  • Tianjin FAW Xiali Auto expects Q1 net loss to widen

    Tianjin FAW Xiali Auto expects Q1 net loss to widen

    Tianjin Faw Xiali Automobile Says it expects Q1 net loss to widen to 240-290 million yuan from 166.9 million yuan ($24.24 million) year ago.

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  • Homelegance China in retailer rollout

    Homelegance China in retailer rollout

    Homelegance China plans to confide in 30 shops a yr because the US model builds its Chinese language model consciousness.

    The corporate opened its first China retailer within the metropolis of Tianjin in Might and by the top of August may have six shops buying and selling in complete. By the top of October it expects to increase to 11 and from then on it plans between 20 and 30 new shops will open yearly.

    Homelegance needs to focus on China’s center class with its assortment of predominantly picket bed room, dwelling, eating and workplace furnishings.

    The inaugural Tianjin retailer is a 30,000 sqft franchise opened in a specialist furnishings shopping center, Pink Star Macalline. It’s operated by Li ShiGuang. Tianjin is the situation of Homelegance’s 260,000 sqft warehouse which can provide shops within the rising community.

    Homelegance will licence shops in China to make sure it has native operators who perceive the native markets it enters.

    “We all know that to develop we should look past our conventional US borders to turn out to be the worldwide chief we all know we might be,” Jamie Collins, government VP of Homelegance USA, advised Furnishings At present.

    “There isn’t any higher place for us to focus our efforts than in China. Past constructing a model in China we all know that our new licensees in China will take pleasure in what our retail companions in North America have already skilled, worthwhile positive factors via the sale of Homelegance merchandise.”

    Collins stated the demand for American designs amongst Chinese language is rising yearly.

    “We’ll current Homelegance as a premier way of life model that represents the perfect of what the Chinese language shopper is on the lookout for.”

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