Cooking apparatus and control method thereof

摘要

A cooking apparatus that is capable of automatically reading a bar code when the bar code approaches a bar-code reader and a method of controlling the same. The cooking apparatus includes a bar-code reader to read a bar code, an object-sensing unit to sense an object around the bar-code reader, and a control unit to perform a controlling operation such that the bar-code reader enters a standby mode when the object is sensed by means of the object-sensing unit.