Meeting transcript: MTG_32040 (notsofar)

Beth: Morning everyone.

Ron: Morning.

Beth: It's really exciting meeting today <FILL/> discussing the products for our  

Beth:   smart kitchen.

Beth: Is that what it is?

Sarah: Robotic kitchen, yeah.

Linda: Smart   Smart kitchen.

Sarah: Robotic kitchen company.

Rachel: <UNKNOWN/>

Linda: Yeah.

Beth: Robotic smart  

Linda: <UNKNOWN/> OK.

Beth:   of the future is here. <FILLlaugh/>

Linda: Yeah.

Linda: The future kitchen.

Beth: So yeah, just today we just wanna do brainstorming on uh any products that uh  

Beth:   I know that uh <PName> Ron </PName> was checking out some technicalities for um like  

Beth:   using examples like uh Nest.

Linda: Like what?

Beth: <UNKNOWN/>

Beth: <UNKNOWN/> company doesn't matter.

Linda: OK.

Beth: What did you   What have you found <PName> Ron </PName> from your research?

Ron: <FILL/> Well, <FILL/> I've done a little bit of an   of a survey among uh  

Ron:   thousands of um   of people that are in the   the kitchen field and in the restaurant field.

Ron: And it seems that what they'd like to do is to  

Ron:   uh the repetitive actions that are done in the kitchen  

Ron:   uh for example the   that the chopping and the cutting uh and the   and uh <FILL/> the mixing.

Sarah: Mixing.

Ron: If those things can be uh automated  

Beth: <FILLlaugh/>

Beth: <BA/>

Ron:   then  

Ron: It would save a lot of time for   for people and then  

Ron:   you know as we succeed in that maybe we can expand you know to   into other areas.

Beth: Yeah.

Beth: Mmm.

Rachel: So, this is more for restaurants, right?

Sarah: <UNKNOWN/> <UNKNOWN/>

Linda: OK I have  

Linda: Yeah. That   That   That was my question. Are we aiming at industrial kitchens or uh home kitchens?

Sarah: I think   I think it can be for both yeah.

Ron: No <UNKNOWN/>  

Beth: I think across the board, yeah.

Linda: Both.

Ron: Yeah, you want <FILL/>   you want both, but if you have   if you uh succeed with the restaurants  

Linda: OK.

Beth: Different solutions for  

Beth: Mm-hmm.

Ron:   then it'll be easier to get into the individual homes. Right.

Beth: You can dumb it down for homes.

Rachel: But then  

Linda: That's   That's a better laboratory yeah yeah.

Rachel: But then as far as uh   as uh success in selling them  

Beth: Yeah.

Rachel:   I think you will have more  

Rachel:   uh private kitchen and   and uh  

Rachel:   <FILL/> than restaurants opening individual. So I think it's  

Sarah: Individuals.

Sarah: I think but restaurants may have a higher budget per what they're trying to buy  

Linda: Yeah.

Linda: Yeah.

Linda: Yeah.

Rachel: Yeah.

Beth: Yeah but as the product manager I would still like to   to   to keep our focus on homes  

Sarah:   um  

Linda:   or   or even big industrial kitchens.

Beth:   'cause I mean that's how this all developed. <FILL/> Restaurants don't have the same uh  

Rachel: Absolutely.

Rachel: Absolutely.

Beth:   like identity that a home has, and I think that when we start speaking to marketing it's important that we keep this home feel.

Rachel: And needs. And needs.

Rachel: Absolutely I do agree with you and uh so let's go with that.

Linda: But   But we could use   we <FILL/>   you know we   we could use the industrial kitchens as a <FILL/> uh kind of our laboratory.

Ron: Mm-hmm.

Sarah: I  

Rachel: Uh the base  

Rachel:   base.

Ron: Right.

Beth: Mmm.

Linda: OK.

Linda:   and find out what works, what doesn't work, what   what's   what's  

Beth: All that homes are like  

Linda:   what's adaptable to homes, what isn't adaptable to homes, yeah.

Beth: Yeah.

Rachel: Well  

Rachel:   we are here a few women at the table why don't we uh start as a  

Linda: Yeah.

Sarah: Women.

Rachel:   a person in  

Beth: Well I think that's a bit  

Beth:   <FILL/> sexist. <FILLlaugh/>

Linda: <FILLlaugh/>

Ron: Yeah. it's a little sexist there.

Rachel: No we spend   we do   we   we have children we spend time getting our children back from school and everything.

Linda: <FILLlaugh/>

Beth: Yeah.

Linda: Right, but   but   but   but  

Rachel: And from our experience maybe we know  

Linda:   so do a   so do a large number of men.

Ron: I do all the cooking in the family.

Rachel: Absolutely.

Linda: Yes.

Linda: Yeah.

Linda: Mm-hmm.

Beth: OK. When in terms of   Let's <FILL/>   Let's stick to the   the   the either  

Rachel: Fine.

Linda: Yeah.

Rachel: Sorry didn't say anything like that. I'm sorry.

Sarah: I think  

Ron: That's OK.

Sarah: I think we can  

Linda: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's   Let's stick to the uh machinery.

Sarah: <FILLlaugh/>

Beth: Our agenda is to   to talk about products  

Rachel: But  

Beth:   so specially uh <PName> Sarah </PName> I know that you've been eh interested in this um having like uh  

Rachel: <BA/>

Beth: <BA/>

Beth:   like prompts for what shopping to do and then your  

Beth:   fridge tells you what's empty, I mean those are the kind of products we need to be speaking about. <FILLlaugh/>

Rachel: Absolutely.

Rachel: Absolutely.

Sarah: Yeah.

Linda: Uh there we go. This  

Sarah: I mean there is a lot of products that we can also   that we can also lean off of you know there is the uh   the   all those uh  

Linda: The smart refrigerator.

Sarah:   <FILL/> mixers that already exist all those automatic uh choppers um  

Linda: Right.

Rachel: It's <UNKNOWN/>  

Rachel: They are there.

Sarah:   And they're already there but we can build on them to make even more automated or connect it with different electronics like a  

Rachel: <UNKNOWN/> <UNKNOWN/> <UNKNOWN/>

Linda: Right but yeah, but this is a different level yeah.

Sarah: Like uh   Like a voice system like turn this on right now  

Beth: NFC or  

Beth: Yeah.

Sarah:   um we will have like a mixing system of just a spoon that is connected to a pan that just continues to mix automatically.

Rachel: How about uh  

Beth: It's like Mary Poppins or something. <FILLlaugh/>

Rachel: How about a robot that will put all the dirty dishes in the uh   uh yeah dishwasher?

Linda: <FILLlaugh/>

Sarah: <FILLlaugh/>

Beth: Yeah. Or that the robot is the dishwasher.

Linda: That's what I want.

Rachel: That would be the best.

Linda: Yeah.

Ron: Right. But uh I was also thinking about a smart oven where you can have sensors inside that would check to see if something  

Rachel: Yes. Put all the  

Beth: <FILLlaugh/>

Linda: Yeah.

Beth: <BA/>

Ron:   uh has risen, is   is baked through, uh insert thermometer to get a <FILL/> inside temperature  

Rachel: Yes.

Linda: Yeah, they  

Rachel: If we can dream  

Ron:   there   of the uh  

Linda: Yeah.

Rachel: If we can dream and that's what we want  

Beth: Yeah.

Linda: Yeah.

Beth: We can do it.

Rachel:   we can do it. So what I would love   what I would see and love to see is when you come back from the shopping  

Linda: Yeah.

Linda: OK.

Beth: OK so how about a dream here? I want you to   Yeah.

Linda: Right.

Rachel:   put  

Linda: We   Now <UNKNOWN/>  

Linda: We need an action plan not just dreams. We need an action plan.

Beth: Yeah yeah I know that all that work you've done is like really valuable so please can you  

Ron: Hmm.

Linda: OK.

Ron: Hmm.

Beth:   summarize that research that you did and give it to me by next week  

Beth:   Wednesday?

Rachel: Absolutely.

Beth: OK. And also <PName> Ron </PName> , that research that you've done is also incredible.

Linda: We need <PName> Ron </PName> 's   <PName> Ron </PName> 's research yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Ron: Mm-hmm.

Linda: Yeah.

Beth: Um I think maybe you can give a presentation on that so  

Sarah: I think <PName> Beth </PName>  

Ron: Sure.

Sarah:   <PName> Beth </PName> as a  

Beth:   we can bring in oh   um <PName> Linda </PName> please can you invite uh also like some <UNKNOWN/>  

Beth:   technical guys for <PName> Ron </PName> 's presentation. <PName> Ron </PName> when will the presentation be?

Linda: I'll look for it yeah.

Linda: Great.

Ron: It should be ready by Monday.

Ron: I'll work on it over the weekend.

Beth: OK, so let's get everyone in the calendar, <PName> Sarah </PName> .

Rachel: So  

Linda: OK, and I'll be   I'll be in touch with you as well.

Sarah: <UNKNOWN/>

Ron: Sure.

Sarah: <UNKNOWN/>

Sarah: I think <PName> Beth </PName> you seesaw all of our ideas maybe come up <FILL/> by next week, channel things that you liked more that we can build up on them.

Sarah: I mean then we can uh build together.

Beth: Yeah and I also need to just give like a running commentary on what things I think we can expand on.

Sarah: Yeah, exactly.

Linda: Yeah.

Beth: OK.

Linda: Yeah.

Linda: I think we each   each of us can do a bit of market research also with our   with our friends and neighbors and get uh   you know <FILL/> get the reaction to the   the   the very idea.

Beth: Yeah.

Beth: So, can you check everyone's calendars <PName> Sarah </PName> ?

Rachel: What  

Linda: Yeah.

Sarah: Yeah, I'll see and we can uh have a follow-up meeting beginning of next week.

Rachel: <FILL/> Absolutely.

Beth: OK. Today, still we need to check calendars, so we can book those meetings for next week.

Rachel: So  

Sarah: Yes, I'll do that.

Rachel: To get back on   on   on the uh   on the dream thing.

Linda: Yeah.

Rachel:   do we uh  

Rachel: Do we have to make it uh feasible or can we really dream?

Beth: No, let's dream big and we can always work it down. So, I love that   I love that big dreams.

Rachel: Absolutely.

Rachel: OK.

Beth: Stick to  

Ron: But I think where you wanna start is where can things be automated in the kitchen.

Linda: Yeah.

Rachel: That's a  

Rachel: Absolutely.

Beth: OK.