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posted by martyb on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the hot-out-of-the-oven dept.

http://newatlas.com/zume-pizza-future-pizza-delivery-robots/45698/

At first glance, it looks like a solution to a particularly first-world problem: To eliminate the sogginess in pizzas caused by dwell time (i.e. the interim period it spends waiting to be delivered), startup Zume Pizza has launched a delivery truck equipped with 56 specially designed ovens to guarantee that their pies arrive at customers' doorsteps fresh out of the oven, literally.

Only in Silicon Valley, right?

But hang on. This isn't really about lukewarm pies. It's about disrupting a US$38 billion market that is currently dominated by big-box chains. In fact, the Big Four in the US – Domino's, Little Caesars, Papa John's and Pizza Hut – currently control around 40 percent of the market. And while there are many ways to go about doing this, founders Julia Collins and Alex Garden have chosen to focus on the food-delivery experience, and for good reason: the surge in mobile ordering and demand for food delivery. In fact, digital ordering is growing 300 percent faster than dine-in traffic. At Domino's alone, more than 50 percent of its US customers order via digital platforms. Collins, who has a restaurant background, believes that Zume's advantage lies in its ability to deliver on price, quality and speed.

Customer: Why are all the toppings piled on one side? Driver: Got cut off in traffic...


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:51AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:51AM (#410932)

    "Movies, microcode, and pizza delivery". I'm still convinced that the man is prescient.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:55AM (#410978)

    I clicked on this story because I just re-read Snow Crash! I can't understand why this hasn't been adapted to film yet. Maybe next year!

  • (Score: 2) by jelizondo on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:42AM

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:42AM (#410994) Journal

    Don't forget nanotech which could really disrupt everything dear to our industrialized societies.

    Industry, as Stephenson writes in Diamond Age, would be restricted to making things and entertainment.

    Even when in this particular book many people are employed as porters, maids, etc. and many others are beggars, the gist is that being able to "print" everything from food to furniture would devastate society as we know it.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @08:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @08:02AM (#411009)

      Don't forget nanotech which could really disrupt everything dear to our industrialized societies.

      Did you hear what this year's chemistry Nobel prize is about?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @07:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @07:04PM (#411207)

        I had to hear about it because I couldn't see it!