A manufacturing machine that creates 300 custom pizzas per hour almost automatically is born



A machine that makes 300 pizzas per hour just by adding pizza dough and ketchup in advance. This machine can use different recipes and is small enough to fit in a restaurant kitchen or food truck. Furthermore, unlike frozen pizza, it is characterized by the ability to use fresh ingredients.

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Secretive Seattle startup Picnic unveils pizza-making robot — here's how it delivers 300 pies / hour – GeekWire
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You can see how the pizza making machine is actually running by looking at the following movie.

Picnic Pizza System from Picnic on Vimeo


Fill the pizza making machine with grated cheese or ketchup.




When a pizza order comes in, the queue is automatically registered on the system. Enter the amount of sauce, cheese and meat you want to use in the console ...



The robot arm automatically tops the ingredients on the pizza dough arranged on the conveyor.



Since the pizza making machine has a camera, it recognizes the center of the pizza dough and arranges the ingredients at appropriate intervals.



The baked pizza looks like this. In addition, the pizza making machine only arranges the ingredients on the pizza dough, it does not make pizza dough, prepare the ingredients, or bake the pizza.



Up to 300 12-inch pizzas can be produced per hour, and 180-inch pizzas can be produced up to 180.



The pizza making machine was created by Picnic, a startup company in Seattle, USA that had been developing an automatic food manufacturing system for three years. Picnic's pizza making machine is offered in restaurants because the machine itself is large enough to fit in most restaurant kitchens, can handle fresh ingredients, and can choose recipes It seems to be the best way to automate and improve the efficiency of pizza creation.



While the pizza restaurant market in the United States boasts $ 46 billion annually, more than 80% of restaurant workers change jobs within a year, so pizza making machines meet market needs It seems to be a thing.

Picnic will rent out the pizza making machine as a lease, and the lease fee includes maintenance costs and software and hardware renewal fees. Picnic writes on the official page that 'Our system will soon be able to produce a wide variety of dishes such as sandwiches and salads.'

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