Robots help kitchen staff stay cool during Calgary heat wave

Robotic arms help kitchen staff avoid working alongside hot deep fryers during extended heat waves in a Calgary restaurant.

A heat wave like the one Calgarians are currently sweating through can make spending your day in a restaurant kitchen quite a challenge.

An example of that is Pizza Culture, where pizzas are made in the traditional style, old-fashioned all the way.

“The oven’s straight from Napoli, Italy,” Pizza Culture owner Jeremy Hube said. “It’s a handmade brick oven, with the same design for about 200 years.”

Once the oven’s loaded up with burning wood, the temperature inside soars.

“We bake at around 900 degrees Fahrenheit — 400 degrees Celsius,” Hube said.

That makes working alongside it for hours at a time a draining experience.

“You sweat in places you didn’t know you could sweat,” Hube said.

But there’s one new spot in Calgary where co-workers take all the heat and don’t mind it a bit.