JD.com’s 7Fresh Kitchen: “Chef Transformer” is coming！

BEIJING, Sept. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JD.com’s catering brand 7Fresh Kitchen has unveiled its first intelligent food truck, debuting at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS). As the “Chef Transformer”, the AI-powered vehicle delivers freshly stir-fried Chinese cuisine for visitors. The innovation gives a new pathway for Chinese cuisine to go global alongside China’s service industry upgrades.

Large-scale events face prominent catering shortcomings. Temporary visitor surges big pressure, while restrictive conditions limit food options to conventional fast food, with few choices for fresh, hot, and homemade stir-fries cuisine. Even food safety opacity and inconsistent cooking quality further trouble event consumers.

7Fresh Kitchen intelligent food truck is equipped with three intelligent cooking robots and a smart coffee machine, enabling fully automated operations from order to robotic stir-frying. No on-site chefs, the system delivers stable food output to handle sudden visitors come, ensuring consistent, local dishes with standardized taste and quality.

During CIFTIS, the truck supply signature Chinese dishes including stir-fried pork with chili, wood-ear mushroom chicken and spicy beef, with Latte and Pomegranate Tea. The all-in-one catering model provides event visitors with high-quality food and drink selection unavailable from traditional event catering services.

Depends on 7Fresh Kitchen’s mature supply chain system, the intelligent truck adopts preprocessed ingredients delivered via strict cold chain logistics with full-source traceability. Its open kitchen allows public visibility of the robotic cooking process, enabling transparent production and robust food safety control even in outside event.

Free from the constraints and high costs of restaurant, the intelligent food truck features outstanding flexibility. Following its CIFTIS premiere, it will drive across sports matches, music festivals and expos. It effectively fills the industry gap for freshly cooked, high-standard Chinese food at large outdoor public events.

Beyond domestic requirements, the solution serves as an export-ready intelligent catering system for global markets. Compared with ordinary food trucks, it integrates domestically manufactured robotic cooking hardware, AI-driven Chinese recipe databases and complete operational and supply chain support. It resolves two challenges for overseas Chinese catering: the global shortage of professional Chinese chefs and inconsistent dish standardization.

7Fresh Kitchen’s global offering extends far beyond hardware exports, covering AI-standardized recipes, operational SOPs, full supply chain frameworks and digital systems, forming a complete, replicable overseas catering solution.

“Outdoor events have long suffered from inadequate catering supply, while global expansion of Chinese cuisine is hindered by chef shortages and quality inconsistency,” a 7Fresh Kitchen manager stated. “Our AI-powered food truck delivers safe, efficient, freshly cooked meals for outdoor events. With our full-package service model, we are building a new pathway for Chinese cuisine export to the world.”

The intelligent food truck embodies JD.com’s continuous innovation in AI-enabled real-world scenarios. As JD.com expands the vehicle’s coverage across domestic events and optimizes its global export service package, the brand will further popularize intelligent Chinese catering worldwide, delivering standardized, high-quality experiences and creating shared value for global consumers and industry partners.

JD.com’s 7Fresh Kitchen
7Fresh Kitchen is a premium catering platform in JD.com. Focus on freshly stir-fried meals and transparent ingredient information, it provides 24-hour live streaming of the kitchen. By innovating its supply chain, it addresses pain points in the traditional catering industry, including difficulties in chain expansion and inadequate food safety guarantees, to deliver tasty, safe and hygienic freshly cooked meals for consumers.

Backed by JD.com’s robust supply chain system, 7Fresh Kitchen adopts a supply chain model of “standardized ready-to-cook vegetable processing + end-to-end cold-chain distribution + robotic fresh stir-frying”, embodying its brand features of “wholesome, fresh and delicious”.

Isla Zhang
zhangtongren.isla@jd.com
https://www.jingdong.com

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