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Did robots help make your pizza?
If you ordered it from Silicon Valley's Zume Pizza, the answer is yes.
The startup, which began delivery in April, is using intelligent machines to grab a slice of the multibillion-dollar pizza delivery market.
Zume is one of a growing number of food-tech firms seeking to disrupt the restaurant industry with software and robots.
"We're going to eliminate boring, repetitive, dangerous jobs, and we're going to free up people to do things that are higher value," said co-founder Alex Garden, a former Microsoft manager and president of mobile game maker Zynga Studios.
Inside its commercial kitchen in Mountain View, pizza dough travels down a conveyer belt where machines add the sauce, spread it and later carefully slide the uncooked pies into an 800-degree oven.
The startup will soon add robots to prep the dough, add cheese and toppings, take pizzas out of the oven, cut them into slices and box them for delivery.
"We automate those repetitive tasks, so that we can spend more money on higher quality ingredients," said Julia Collins, Zume's CEO and cofounder. "There will always be a model here at Zume where robots and humans work together to create delicious food."
Zume's founders say the company doesn't plan to eliminate any of its roughly 50 employees, but move them into new jobs as robots take over more kitchen work and the company opens new locations.
originally posted by: Edumakated
$15/hr my azz... that is what this is really about. There is also a burger joint that recently opened that is pretty much all robots.
"We're going to eliminate boring, repetitive, dangerous jobs, and we're going to free up people to do things that are higher value
originally posted by: Zarniwoop
"We're going to eliminate boring, repetitive, dangerous jobs, and we're going to free up people to do things that are higher value
Great thought, but lacks detail.
What higher value jobs are the pizza makers going to be doing?... probably not skilled enough to fix the robots when they break down or doing the finance books... Maybe some QC jobs to make sure the robots don't screw up ?
All I see here is job elimination
originally posted by: burgerbuddy
I thought this might be about the pizza vending machines.
Yes there will be jobs lost but someone still has to get the ingredients to load the machines, so there is that.
"I need more CHEESE, meatbag!"