Late final month, grocery big Kroger started to trial the usage of a cake-printing robotic made by Beehex within the Gahanna, Ohio, location, The Spoon has discovered.
The brand new Cake Author machine, which is able to enable customers to enter a customized message and watch because the cake is adorned in minutes on the spot, is made by 3D meals printing startup Beehex. Relying on the message, the ornament course of will take two to 14 minutes. The machines can be loaded with a whole lot of various pre-made designs and fonts for the client to select from.
Beehex CEO Anjan Contractor instructed The Spoon that the startup plans to put in 10 Beehex Cake Author machines within the Columbus market subsequent yr and has plans to put in as much as 350 machines sooner or later with Kroger.
Contractor says {that a} typical machine prices roughly $10 thousand when produced at scale, and the continuing prices embody $50 a month for cloud database administration and about $5-6 for every 20 oz cartridge of frosting.
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I don’t learn about you, however I’d gladly pay for a personalized cake. We simply celebrated a birthday in our household, and I had to purchase a tube of frosting and scrawl the identify on the highest of the cake with my atrophied handwriting. A personalized picture with legible writing is one thing I’d pay for.
You’ll be able to take a look at the Cake Author in motion under within the video offered by Beehex.
