Zume Pizza

Zume Pizza
Private
Industry Pizzerias
Founded 2016 (2016)
Founders Alex Garden
Julia Collins
Headquarters Mountain View, California, United States
Area served
 Mountain View, California and surrounding areas
Products Pizza, Salad
Number of employees
 19 (human), 8 (robot)
Website zumepizza.com

Zume Pizza is an automated pizza delivery restaurant in Mountain View, California. It was founded in 2016 by Alex Garden[1] and by Julia Collins, who is CEO.[2][3]

The company uses robots for many stages of pizza production.[4][5] Initially, humans shaped the pizza dough and added toppings; as of September 2016 the pizzas are cooked en route in a van equipped with 56 GPS-equipped automated ovens, timed to be ready shortly before arrival at the address, and are then sliced by a self-cleaning robot cutter.[2][3][6] The company has secured a patent on the cooking of food during delivery,[7][8] which includes predictive algorithms to anticipate customer choices, and plans to partner with other businesses to also provide other robot-prepared meal components, such as salads and desserts.[8]

Zume is reported to have raised $6 million in investment funding, some from Jerry Yang[7] and some from SignalFire, a venture capital firm that identifies investment opportunities using machine learning.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Silver, Curtis (June 27, 2016). "Zume's Robot-Made Pizza Asks: You Want A Piece Of This?". Forbes (blog). Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Kendall, Marissa (September 29, 2016). "Zume Pizza: Made by robots, baked in delivery truck". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Entis, Laura; Baran, Jonathan (September 29, 2016). "This Robot-Made Pizza Is Baked in the Van on the Way to Your Door". Fortune. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Zaleski, Olivia (June 24, 2016). "Inside Silicon Valley's Robot Pizzeria". Bloomberg. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Mannes, John (September 1, 2016). "Robots and on-board ovens deliver on Zume’s promise of better pizza". TechCrunch.
  6. ↑ Savvides, Lexxy (November 4, 2016). "See inside a robot pizza factory". CNET. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Pie in the sky: Technology firms may struggle to disrupt the food business". The Economist. November 26, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  8. 1 2 Elgan, Mike (December 24, 2016). "Software is eating the food world". Computerworld (opinion). Retrieved January 2, 2017.

Coordinates: 37°23′56″N 122°05′02″W / 37.398925°N 122.083925°W / 37.398925; -122.083925


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