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I've always thought something like this would be a fun idea to build a cocktail bar around. 80% of making a great cocktail is precisely measuring and combining
by hemancuso 12y ago
I've always thought something like this would be a fun idea to build a cocktail bar around. 80% of making a great cocktail is precisely measuring and combining high quality ingredients. .
If you spent some time making a very attractive machine that was fun for patrons to watch, mixed great drinks that were finished with a human touch, it could be a really interesting draw. I imagine a place with a beautiful/badass MIT-made drink-mixing machine would do quite well in Kendall square.
Create list of 8-10 interesting drinks that change weekly, that source from perhaps a dozen different liquors/fresh juices. The machines selects one of 4 glasses that was already clean, could precisely measure/mix/shake the drink leaving the bartender to garnish, present, squeeze fresh lemons into a container. I think you could have a quality experience.
- ljf 12y agoTotally this - I always day dream about buying an industrial robotic arm and setting it to work as a cocktail machine - some of the seriously high end ones move at insane speeds, so this could work out faster than human barstaff - especially if you can mutli-thread the tasks. One for my lottery win daydreams.
- conanbatt 12y agoEven better, you can make a recipe API, and given a set of ingredients and some configuration, anyone can suggest a drink or pick one if available, so every robot mix drinker makes the exact same cocktail in any bar. Use case: I like my Old Fashioned strong with a slice of lemon instead of orange. Make recipe, put online. Go to any bar with robot mixer: same Old Fashioned everywhere!.
- ngoel36 12y agoThis is literally what one Valley founder has done with Smitten Ice Cream in SF. http://www.wired.com/2013/06/the-blue-bottle-of-ice-cream/ http://www.wired.com/2013/06/the-blue-bottle-of-ice-cream/