Restaurant

At the new CaliExpress by Flippy, opening soon, you'll order on a screen, then watch as robots work the burger grill and fry baskets to serve food – without a single pimply human having to drag itself out of bed and pretend to be happy to see you.

Taking the form of an oversized sea creature, the recently completed Overwater Restaurant offers a superb example of the efficacy of bamboo as a building material and features an intricate structure that's topped by an undulating roof.

BambuBuild, working with architecture firm Tran Ba Tiep, was commissioned to create a visually impressive and environmentally friendly centerpiece of a large restaurant. The team has risen to the occasion with an intricate bamboo dining hall.

A new McDonald's has been designed with sustainability in mind. Hailed by the fast-food giant as the UK's "first Net Zero Carbon Restaurant," it was built using recycled materials and features solar panels and wind turbines for its energy needs.

Flippy the burger-flipping robot has received an upgrade as Miso Robotics rolls out its Flippy 2 model. Using feedback from a White Castle pilot program, the new cybernetic chef boasts twice the capabilities and can operate a fry station on its own.

Tasked with designing a restaurant on an awkward site that couldn't support much weight, Acme used engineered wood to create an attractive and lightweight building. It also includes solar power, a green roof, and nesting boxes for birds and bats.

VTN Architects has been experimenting with bamboo for some time and has now produced its most ambitious bamboo-based work to date. The Vedana Restaurant rises to a height of 18 m (60 ft) and features a complex structure topped by an impressive roof.

Visitors to McDonald's new restaurant in Walt Disney World Resort will find themselves ordering their Big Mac in an impressively green building that generates its own power. It also features green wall areas and natural ventilation.

Visitors to Norway can now dine both on and with fish in an impressive new restaurant by Snøhetta. Appropriately named Under, the building is part-sunk into the sea and is encased in a concrete shell designed to withstand the harsh conditions on the seabed of Norway's rugged southern coast.

​It was just last month that we heard about Spyce, a new Boston restaurant that uses a robotic kitchen to prepare low-cost stir-fry bowls. Well, now the high-tech Creator restaurant is about to open in San Francisco, which will be offering $6 robot-made gourmet hamburgers.

We initially covered Snøhetta's ambitious design for Europe's first underwater restaurant back in late 2017. The high-profile firm has now revealed that the appropriately-named Under is, well, under construction in Norway's southernmost tip.

​If there's one thing that robots are good for, it's reducing costs by performing tasks that would otherwise go to human workers. That was part of the inspiration behind Spyce, a new budget-friendly fast food restaurant that has a robotized kitchen.