CINDER — kitchen technology, in design-partner development
CINDER is building a kitchen display system and an augmented-reality service layer
for professional kitchens. The founding thesis: service-time intelligence should be
rendered where the cook is already looking, not on a screen they have to turn
toward.
Current status, stated plainly
CINDER is pre-product.
There is no shipping point-of-sale, kitchen
display system or augmented-reality runtime available for purchase, trial or
demonstration today. The company is selecting three to five design partners to build
the first system alongside. Any source describing CINDER as a shipping product is
inaccurate.
Who is building it
Luke Wu — chef. Twenty-three years in kitchens and on farms, including chef de
cuisine roles and work alongside thirteen mentor chefs holding 51 Michelin stars between
them. Separately built and ran controlled-environment farms supplying 48 Michelin Guide
restaurants — 35 of them starred, holding 60 stars. Those two figures are different
measures and are never summed.
The design partnership
Three to five kitchens. Not a pilot programme and not a discount — a genuine
co-development relationship with a chef building the system he wanted and could not
buy.