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Pizza of the future? AI being used to make pizza at T-Mobile Park
KIRO-TV ^ | October 3, 2019 | Deedee Sun

Posted on 10/15/2019 5:38:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Artificial intelligence could be used to make your next pizza, if you order one at T-Mobile Park.

A Seattle startup called Picnic has developed a machine capable of turning out hundreds of pizzas an hour.

The CEO of the company said the machine can also help solve a staffing shortage in the food services industry.

“You can make different pizzas, each one in a row,” said Clayton Wood, CEO of Picnic.

The machine gets the pizza order from an iPad app that was developed in-house, at the company’s office and lab in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood.

(Excerpt) Read more at kiro7.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Food
KEYWORDS: automation; dining; fastfood; jobs; labor; pizza; restaurants
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1 posted on 10/15/2019 5:38:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I make my pizza and calzones at home


2 posted on 10/15/2019 5:42:37 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does it demand $15 an hour?


3 posted on 10/15/2019 5:46:04 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Went to an airshow when I was a kid and there was a machine doing just that. You punched in your ingredients and out popped a personal sized pizza in about ten minutes.


4 posted on 10/15/2019 5:47:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

A red vending machine?


5 posted on 10/15/2019 5:50:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Moonman62

No, and therein lies the rub.


6 posted on 10/15/2019 5:51:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"a finished, though raw, pizza"

Details to be worked about cooking pizza at this rate of output and how to box it.

Who is folding all the required boxes?

7 posted on 10/15/2019 5:52:53 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well actually it was. There was a guy there making sure everything went okay - you could see your pizza as it’s put together and move along, baked, and slide out; boxes handy.


8 posted on 10/15/2019 5:53:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When will we be able to print our pizzas?

I mean, if we can print guns and human organs, pizza should be a snap.


9 posted on 10/15/2019 5:54:06 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Ken H

They already have 3-D printed food, including pizza.


10 posted on 10/15/2019 5:57:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: FatherofFive
"I make my pizza and calzones at home"

You are a socialist, pizzaphobe, anti-Italian, racist /S
Me too!

11 posted on 10/15/2019 5:59:22 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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“It uses artificial intelligence to tell what size crust is being put into the machine, as well as whether the crust is a crust at all.”

AI?


12 posted on 10/15/2019 6:01:10 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SkyDancer

It’s gonna taste like the local pizzerias where the 110 year old Italian grandmother is in the kitchen with her sons and their sons?

i dunno


13 posted on 10/15/2019 6:10:21 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s one instance where I don’t have a dog in the fight. I used to help manage a couple of pizza joints in my misspent youth, and I can say from experience that it doesn’t matter if the pizza was made by a monkey or HAL 9000 - it’s the ingredients that make the pie.


14 posted on 10/15/2019 6:18:07 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: dp0622

From what I remember it wasn’t bad. Better than Domino’s cardboard with tomato paste on it.


15 posted on 10/15/2019 6:25:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anything to distract the audience from the Mariners on the field.


16 posted on 10/15/2019 6:26:54 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Frozen pizzas are already made by machines


17 posted on 10/15/2019 6:31:40 PM PDT by LumberJack53213
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To: SkyDancer

I bet!


18 posted on 10/15/2019 7:19:39 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“staffing shortages”

I don’t think we have any shortage.

Aren’t criminals on parole required to seek employment?


19 posted on 10/15/2019 7:26:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: dp0622
No

Handy chart to answer such questions:

https://wfmu.org/LCD/22/sucky_pizza.html

A SPECIAL INVESTIGATION:
WHY WEST COAST PIZZA TASTES LIKE CRAP
- An Investigative Report From John Spaeth


20 posted on 10/15/2019 7:32:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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