Posted on 01/21/2021 8:11:06 PM PST by dynachrome
Just as the restaurant industry is shifting, Seattle company Picnic believes the world might now be ready for its pizza-making robot.
The Picnic Pizza System stole the show at last year's CES technology convention in Las Vegas.
The robot wowed convention-goers by quickly rolling out hundreds of customized pizzas, each with different toppings, sizes and even making half-and-half pizzas — all with precision and little food waste.
However, in the restaurant industry, there has been a stigma on automation.
The coronavirus pandemic may be starting to change that, said Picnic CEO Clayton Wood.
“There’s a unique labor problem in that you can’t have people working shoulder to shoulder in a kitchen so if you want to produce volumes of food like you do for delivery you’ve got to produce those orders quickly and with consistency,” Wood said.
The tech world was clearly ready for a pizza robot. The company sold more than 500 pizzas with less than 1% food waste at the 2020 CES.
Picnic was named “Best of CES” by several reviewers — and it wasn't even an official vendor.
In the past year, Picnic received a substantial investment, allowing the company to ramp up production of its commercial model, which was shipped to its first customer this week.
Wood says they’ve received a lot of interest from all over the food service sector, with large and small customers including pizza restaurants, corporate food services, ghost kitchens, food trucks and convenience stores.
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(What is a "ghost kitchen"?)
Instead of 5 people working in a kitchen, you can probably cut it down to 2 people, maybe just one when it’s slow.
And when its shift is over, it can go onto the street autonomously, and using advanced sensors detect police cars, and smash their windows. It can also loot stores and with its advanced algorithms, find the most expensive items quickly.
Interesting. But I think the world has been eating robot pizzas since the beginnings of the frozen pizza.
Will there be an automatic spitting nozzle for white people and cops’ pizza?
Teach it to whine and make a Latte, it could replace an entire generation.
Yeah, but, the ‘robot’ still needs to be fed the ingredients, and somebody has to shop for or order the ingredients, and somebody has to charge for the pizzas. Those jobs will go for at least $50 an hour, in the liberal cities and states.
Who needs a robot?
Just open a can:
Does Martin House’s new beer really taste like pizza?
Better act quickly if you want to get a taste of Martin House Brewing Company’s Space Pizza. The Fort Worth brewery releases a new beer every week, and this pizza-flavored beer will likely be gone from store shelves by the end of January.
Martin House is known for its weird beers. The Sour Pickle beer was a puckering success that spawned a Spicy Pickle beer offshoot. Other recent releases have included a peanut butter golden stout named Statement of Purpose, and one they called “the most dangerous beer we’ve ever created,” a 15% ABV Limoncello beer.
Fascinating. Looks like an awful lot of parts that need to be cleaned. Robotic washers?
There are always minimum wage jobs servicing expensive automated machines.
“Instead of 5 people working in a kitchen, you can probably cut it down to 2 people, maybe just one when it’s slow”
The same robot kitchens where there’s two or three people running around keeping the machine stocked and loaded with the various components of whatever it’s producing, not to mention the sanitation required.
“Instead of 5 people working in a kitchen, you can probably cut it down to 2 people, maybe just one when it’s slow”
The same robot kitchens where there’s two or three people running around keeping the machine stocked and loaded with the various components of whatever it’s producing, not to mention the sanitation required.
Are the red blooded American robots or are these some illegal alien robots that sneaked over the border?
If I’m drinking beer, I want real pizza.
Tech company? Pizza only for white liberal ‘elites’ and their pets?
Okay, that made me laugh...
Future minimum wage legislation should be called “The Robot Full Employment Act”.
What happened to the pizza vending machines that they were testing a few years ago? I would have driven far out of my way just to try one.
The machines they were testing made a pizza in the machine. Still don’t know why we never heard of them again after the original news release.
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