National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism / Asst. Prof. Meng-Jun Hsu

 Pain Points Solved 

Central kitchens, chain restaurants and ready-meal makers struggle to standardise recipes: paper-based or Word-document recipes cannot interface with smart cooking equipment, cooking quality varies by chef, and cross-border expansion lacks consistent multilingual digital standards. Traditional digitisation requires chefs to manually enter temperature, time and portion parameters, which is costly and slow. This system uses Google Gemini to automatically convert text recipes into structured Digital Recipes - including a step timeline, heat/temperature profile, ingredient list with substitutions, and an AI-generated dish image - and connects directly to the in-house POS, KDS (Kitchen Display System), scheduling dashboard and command center, so that the same machine-readable recipe can drive both the central kitchen and the front-of-house across markets.

 Technology Introduction 

Built on React + TypeScript + Vite with Firebase Auth, the system ships with full i18n and a complete F&B ops suite: POS, KDS, Scheduling Dashboard, Admin Panel and Command Center, with User / Admin role-based access. Users only input the dish name and basic recipe; Gemini AI produces a structured Digital Recipe with ingredient substitutions, segmented cooking parameters, an illustrative dish image and multilingual translations, and exports a machine-readable format that can directly drive smart kitchen equipment for true end-to-end F&B digital transformation.

Figure 1.  AI Digital Recipe Generator

Figure 2. Command Center Dashboard

Figure 3. Digital Recipe Cooking Mode (Mapo Tofu)

Figure 4. Multi-station Scheduling Dashboard

 Application Examples 

The system has been applied to multiple F&B operational scenarios, including:
1. Central kitchens standardizing cooking procedures across branches.
2. Restaurant chains auto-generating menus, structured recipes and dish images.
3. Ready-meal manufacturers building multilingual digital recipe libraries for cross-border expansion.
4. Smart-kitchen equipment vendors turning digital recipes into automated cooking instructions.
5. Culinary education programmes using the recipes as standardised teaching materials.

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 Technical Contact  

Administrative Assistant Hsin-Yi, Chu

Research and Development Office

National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism
Tel: +886 7-8060505 ext. 16102
Email: hsichu@mail.nkuht.edu.tw