Pizza startup aiming for domestic delivery pizza industry by introducing source painting robot, pizza-grilling robot, car oven etc. to make pizza

Among the US pizza industry sales of $ 9.7 billion (about 988.3 billion yen), domestic pizza delivery companies such as Domino Pizza and Pizza Hut account for more than 58% of sales. Losing to such a major pizza chain, start-ups of pizza shops offering cheap pizza using robots are appearing.

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Pizza home delivery startup "Zume"We established Alex Garden, a former representative of Zynga Studios in the past and a general manager of Xbox Live. Zume is a startup quietly established in Mountain View in Santa Clara County, California in June 2015 and Mr. Garden is working on raising profit by making use of robots to make pizza. Mr. Garden says, "We want to be like Amazon like meal delivery industry."


Zume's office is 8000 square feet (about 743 square meters), and in the kitchen there are robots to make pizza.


Order pizza with a smartphone application.


A notification will be sent to the kitchen tablet when the order is placed.


Hand made pizza fabric with kitchen staff rolled ......


Set on a special machine.


Then, the fabric was rolled up in a blank shape and flattened in a blink of an eye in a blink of an eye.


The stretched fabric is carried on the blue belt conveyor to the next process.


The robot will also do the work of placing the sauce on the pizza fabric.


Marta, a specialized robot that spreads the sauce, moves the arm hung from the ceiling like a spider and quickly spreads the source placed on the pizza fabric within 2 seconds.


A round head is mounted on the tip of Marta's arm. According to Mr. Garden, Marta moves the head to the mechanism to evenly spread the sauce on the fabric, but the way to paint the sauce is not perfect, as if the pizza craftsman had painted the sauce It is designed to be.


The fabric coated with sauce is further carried on a belt conveyor, and toppings the ingredients with human hands.


When the topping is over, the robot called "Bruno" gently scoop up the pizza ......


Put the pizza in the oven and bake it.


In Zume, the shop which sells pizza made by robot started business in April 2016.


Furthermore, Zume owns not only a robot that makes pizza in the kitchen, but also a delivery truck equipped with pizza cooking facilities inside the car.


On the truck bed part, the oven which burns pizza is running while running. We have installed a total of 56 ovens. When approaching the customer's house where you ordered the pizza, you can start cooking 3 minutes 15 seconds before the expected arrival time and bake the pizza while heading to the customer's home, so you can deliver the freshly made pizza I will.


When arriving at the guest's house, pizza will just bake. However, in order to deliver the pizza actually while baking, it is necessary to obtain permission from the Sanitary Cluster District Hygiene Department, so Zume does not use the delivery truck at the moment so far, and the pizza made by the robot in the kitchen Only sold at the store. Although the law concerning hygiene varies from state to state, it seems that trucks that cook food during driving have never been approved so far.


Zume's office also has space to make robots. Mr. Garden himself cooperates with engineers to make a robot.


In office space, a total of 12 people including engineers, designers, product managers work.


Zume is invested by venture capital Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & amp; Byers, and at venture capitalSeries AIt seems that they are considering investing in. Zume says, "I have ambition to dominate the pizza home delivery industry with a robot", and in August 2016 with the permission of the hygiene station I wanted to deliver pizza while cooking pizza in the delivery truck He seems to think.