Robot Pizza Robot Salad Tossing Green

Our num, nums are going robotic

Silicon Valley Zume Pizza and Chowbotics are coming to feed you

Emmmm. Robot made pizza and robot made salads. Sounds good, doesn't it? Well, as long as the ingredients are tasty, it should be all good, right?

Zume pizza and Chowbotics hope so. Zume is a Silicon Valley pizza restaurant that use robotics and A.I. to construct and deliver their pies. Pie making is automated inside the stores for the repetitive tasks, while delivery is done with algorithms that can anticipate where, when, and who will be ordering food and even what type of pizza is likely to be ordered.  Source 

Those already cooked pizzas are loaded into a delivery truck that ventures out at the appropriate time and place to begin doling out dinner to customers. Inside the truck, the pizza is kept warm and crisp. It means quicker delivery for the customer - four minutes and fresher food.

Now the pizza maker, only practicing their wizardry in San Francisco, has raised enough dough - $50 million to begin spreading out. Costs are cut with less rent and lower labor costs for the company. A new way to get our pizza has arrived!

To go with the Zume pizza, diners can grab a salad on the way home out of a vending machine from Chowbotics, another Bay Area start-up that may change the food industry as well. The genius of the machines is that they keep the veggies cold and away from the human contact of salad bars. Source

It can then mix and make customized salads with a touch of a button. Concern about job loss is an issue that has cropped up surrounding companies like these two. But both say jobs will still be available with a need for delivery drivers and machine loaders.

Pizza restaurants like Pizza Hut and Dominoes employ an average of  15 workers per store. Source
It is not known how many a Zume store employs but the founders say that with all the lower costs, pay for its employees will be better than the industry average and even health benefits could be offered.