How BO&MIE uses artificial intelligence in its operations

Craft and artificial intelligence are not incompatible — provided you know where to put the one and where to keep the other.

La Tribune des Boulangers Pâtissiers asks Jean-François Bandet how he uses these tools. The article first recalls the concept: a modern bakery inspired by coffee shops, centred on the product and on in-house production.

Where the tool helps

The main subject lies elsewhere. How do you run a growing bakery business without adding to the overhead with every opening? Production sheets are calculated to the gram and sent every evening to the various sections of the lab: oven, pastry, bread, snacking.

The tool handles what is calculable and repetitive. It does not touch the hand, the recipe, or anything decided by tasting.

Five addresses, and what comes next

At that date, the outlet counts five sites — four in Paris and one in Barcelona — with Jeddah and a railway-station location in the south of France among the announced developments. Two years later, these same uses are what France Num will document as a textbook case.