Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® Steven Johnson says
that ‘looking a customer ahead’ is what industry leading companies do time and
time again. This week we learned that Little
Caesars filed a patent to increase store profitability when they applied
for a patent for pizza making robot.
According
to the United States Trademark and Patent Office USTPO the patent granted
franchisor Little Caesars Enterprises on Tuesday, the device can pull a
dough-loaded pizza pan from a rack, press out the dough, apply sauce, add
cheese and toppings and then place the pie in an oven.
While
Little Caesars has commented about the possible deployment of the automated
pizza-maker the fact is the patent was applied for and granted. Kinda makes you think they are serious about reducing
staffing levels at each unit lowering operating cost doesn’t it. So, according to the filing, is an
articulated arm that can grip the pan and move it along the various stages of
pizza assembly is it’s point of differentiation.
How
is technology helping you evolve? Little
Caesars is not alone in the pizza robot business as Zume Pizza has five robots
(Pepe, Giorgio, Marta, Bruno, and Vincenzo) on its pizza production line. The
company has secured $48 million in funding for expansion.
Regular
readers of this blog know that the robotization within retail foodservice is
more experimentation than reality as CaliBurger, a small burger chain, had to
bench its Flippy
burger-flipping robot earlier
this week because humans couldn't keep up with the cyborg's pace of prepping
2,000 burgers per day. Is your company ‘looking a customer ahead’?
Are you ready for
some fresh ideations? Do your food marketing tactics look more like yesterday
that tomorrow? Visit www.FoodserviceSolutions.us for more information
or contact: Steve@FoodserviceSolutions.us Remember success
does leave clues and we just may have the clue you need to propel your
continued success.
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