Step inside the Ronto Roasters restaurant in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and you’ll find an animatronic droid complaining about his never-ending job turning a spit of “space meat” over a fire stoked by a repurposed podracing engine.

Ronto Roasters will offer spit-roasted barbecue meats and cold drinks in the Black Spire Outpost village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed lands coming to the Anaheim theme park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

“This location is super fun because it’s all about meat and it’s all about heat,” said Brian Piasecki, Disney World culinary director for concept development.

The quick-service food stand takes its name from the strong yet skittish Rontos ridden by Jawas on Tatooine in the Star Wars universe.

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Ronto Roasters will be run by a podracing fan named Bakkar who pays tribute to the sport throughout his Black Spire eatery, according to the restaurant’s backstory.

“He loves podracing,” said Walt Disney Imagineering creative producer Brian Loo. “You’ll see a lot of the podracing flags around his area.”

The dangerous and deadly racing sport popular on the Star Wars planets of Tatooine and Malastare features single-racer pods propelled by large engines.

An audio-animatronic smelter droid named 8D-J8 will endlessly turn a rotisserie spit at Ronto Roasters while constantly complaining about his thankless job.

Smelter droids, which show up in “The Return of the Jedi” and “The Phantom Menace,” typically work in the harsh environments of ore-extraction facilities.

Ronto Roasters will serve barbecue sausage sandwiches and hand-torn turkey jerky that appear to be cooked by a repurposed podracing engine.

“It’s shaking and rattling,” said Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty. “It’s heating this giant foil that sits at the bottom. There’s space meat that’s on a rotisserie spinning around. Our droid is standing over here on this plinth and he’s turning the spit, complaining about his job.”

The Ronto Roasters menu will play off a mix of sweet and spicy flavors in a culinary nod to the eternal battle between the light and dark sides of the Force.

“We know that we are stuck with serving food within our planet, but we had to think about it differently,” Piasecki said. “We had to think about some of those flavors of Morocco and those flavors of Asia because of that yin and yang, that sweet and that spicy. It all became very important in the development of the story.”

Several of the food and beverage items at Ronto Roasters will have a spicy kick that you might not expect from a theme park restaurant.

The Ronto Wrap handheld sandwich will come with a spicy Portuguese-style sausage and sliced roast pork on a pita with a Szechuan peppercorn “clutch sauce.”

The house-made turkey jerky will be offered in two flavors: Spicy herb or sweet teriyaki.

“You’ll see these hanging strips of leather that’s actually house-made turkey jerky,” Piasecki said.

Even the Sour Sarlacc raspberry lemonade will have a spicy mango kick to it.

“That drink is a little bit sour, a little bit sweet, a little bit spicy,” said Disneyland food and beverage director Michele Gendreau.

Ronto Roasters opens in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on May 31 at Disneyland and Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.