{"id":14586,"date":"2025-11-26T08:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:39:53","slug":"the-future-of-dining-ai-chef-heads-kitchen-at-futuristic-new-dubai-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14586","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The future of dining\u2019? AI chef heads kitchen at futuristic new Dubai restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/24\/ff5a903f-1161-4c5e-89a8-b94314ea08e6_0d64f774.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On a slow afternoon a few years ago, Dubai restaurateur Ahmet Oytun Cakir was in his office considering menu inspiration. The hospitality veteran, whose empire includes the popular hang-outs BohoX and Rove, then had a brainstorm: he would turn to ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Seconds later, the newly released <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">chatbot<\/span> delivered a recipe for spiced lamb. Cakir decided to try it.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was amazing, amazing,\u201d he recalls. \u201cImmediately we shot the photo, we put it on the menu. It became a bestseller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That hit dish sparked a bolder thought: what if an entire restaurant could be powered by artificial intelligence?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fast-forward to September 2025, when Cakir\u2019s company, Gastronaut Hospitality, debuted Woohoo, an all-AI concept steps from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The restaurant, billed by the group as \u201cthe future of dining\u201d, is fronted by \u201cChef Aiman\u201d, a large language model trained on thousands of recipes, flavour pairings and food data.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Developed by a custom AI model called Umai that was created by UAE-based tech firm Vivid Studios, the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">AI chef<\/span> has been designed as an avatar: a middle-aged, Caucasian man with sleek silver goggles and a mysterious sci-fi allure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3333907\/future-dining-ai-chef-heads-kitchen-futuristic-new-dubai-restaurant?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a slow afternoon a few years ago, Dubai restaurateur Ahmet Oytun Cakir was in his office considering menu inspiration. The hospitality veteran, whose empire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[809,5970,8075,2562,10830,10829,5723,476],"class_list":["post-14586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chef","tag-dining","tag-dubai","tag-future","tag-futuristic","tag-heads","tag-kitchen","tag-restaurant","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}