The coronavirus outbreak has influent the lifestyle of everyone. Work from home policies reduces the opportunities of dining out in a restaurant and people cook themselves instead. According to a survey, more than 50% of the participants cook more often at home during the Covid 19 lockdown instead of ordering takeaway or dine out. In a food paradise like Hong Kong and Japan, people dine out nearly every day. People rarely cook thus some have difficulties in daily life cooking. This provokes inspiration for problem-solving in cooking aspects.

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This phenomenon revealed some people are lack cooking skills because human-being always have a fear of failure. Failure reduces the motives and has an impact on emotion, this is the reason why some could give up after a certain time of failures. 

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Chef School is a concept of learning from technologies inspired by cooking simulator games. It is located at the entrance of superstore-type or medium-size supermarkets, where users can play a cooking simulator game and learn a new recipe in a more realistic way. The benefit of gaming is freedom, which means users can perform themselves without fears of failure and waste food ingredients. Users can print out a customized recipe and a list of food ingredients to help them to purchase in that store.

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The booth design takes inspiration from condiments bottles, which symbolizes cooking is not just about food making. It is an additional fun way to enrich our life and a sense of satisfaction. Its transparent body allows others to see what is going on and attract users. Users can make a small payment with their credit/debit cards or loyalty cards to start the game.