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The future of pizza is self-driving pizza ovens. It sounds ridiculous, but just imagine a pizza delivery place that has no physical store, no employees, and can deliver you a pizza in 15 minutes, fresh out of the oven.

It seems inevitable.

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Zume Pizza is doing exactly this as well: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/zume-scores-48-million-in-...

I notice they automate only the really easy steps. I don't see this saving more than 10 seconds worth of minimum wage human labor while having people handle the dough plus 30 seconds for a human to add toppings etc. That final robot was worse as the convener could just dump the pizza into the oven directly.

On top of that you now need complex maintenance and cleaning to keep things working correctly.

It would be a little challenging. A proper pizza oven is about five or six hundred degrees minimum, and the pie bakes in 5 to 10 minutes or maybe less in some cases. And when it's done the toppings and sauce and cheese are pretty much a liquid. Going around the corner too fast will slosh at all to one side.

If it only takes that long, it could just cook while parked at destination

what? you sure you thought this through? So instead of having one kitchen producing pizzas all day long, you cut off half (or worse) of that productive time for traveling around?

All this complexity just to save on the cost of having some land to put a bunch of ovens sounds absolutely ludicrous.

One word. Juicero.

The problem with venture capital is it optimizes for bullshit. If you bootstrap, you have no choice but to actually be a legitimate business, because you don't get paid otherwise.

I'd say the point of cooking en route is not for productivity but for freshness.

The point of the pizzeria (at least for its owners) is to make money. If you're spending 5 minutes at the destination cooking a pizza, that's either going to be one expensive pizza or the pizzeria is going out of business in a few months.

It's going to be one expensive pizza, of course. That is the target market. Think gated communities, high property-tax areas, etc..

What if you put the oven within a gyroscope? Seems like a solvable problem.

At that point wouldn't you just be over engineering with little gain and increased costs. My biggest worry would be cleaning and how handle the yeast cultures for forming dough, letting it rise, and all those intricacies.

That problem could be solved with some stabilization techniques, like that "smart" spoon for parkinson works (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwfXeLlqsU)

Dominos is testing this already https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominos-launches-pu...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/29/technology/ford-dominos-self...

Nah, eventually you could just download a Proprietary Recipe [TM], into your Cook-3000 and a steaming hot pizza will come out in under 10 minutes. All ingredients that are not in store, are sourced automatically, through the Internet and delivered by a combination of autonomous truck/drone delivery system, where the drone takes the food cartridges that are in fact, brown paper cartridges filled with cubed veggies/meats/cheese directly to your autonomous pantry/fridge.

Almost ... except that the consumer won't own the appliance! It will be shared by users, and the supply chain will be pre-emptively managed by the operating company. We are on track for deployment next year in Shenzhen. Raising 3Q. http://infinite-food.com/

I keep seeing you guys posting your website everywhere, but I haven't actually read any news, or seen any actual product.

You would get a lot more interest if you at least had some information on the product.

I'm really interested in the product, but I don't even know what the product is. Looking at your website, it just looks like a vending machine?

Glad you are interested. The current level of information sharing is intentional.

Then why bother spam-posting in non-related HN threads?

You have a strange definition of spam on a startup tech community forum, and a very strange definition of non-related for a thread half-heartedly crystal-balling the future of tech-based food distribution. I rarely post about my company.

This sounds like every nightmare I've ever had about capitalism gone out of control.

Flying pizza oven swarms with predictive flocking patterns.

At least where I am, Little Ceasars doesn't even do delivery, although it seems they have a Doordash partnership of some kind. The focus seems to be on having the lowest price.

Needless to say, doing so is illegal pretty much everywhere. You cannot sell from a vehicle without a proper license from the government in many places at all.

Neat idea, but I don't think they will be needed since there will already be fleets of delivery drones.

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