Picnic is a pizza production machine that can make as many as 300 sheets of fresh pizza in an hour simply by putting ingredients such as pizza dough and ketchup. This product is said to be able to use the recipe as desired, or it can be placed in a restaurant kitchen or a food truck. Another advantage is that you can use fresh ingredients that are different from frozen pizza.
Picnic automatically registers the pizza order in the system when it is placed. When the amount of sauce, cheese, and meat used is entered into the console, the robot arm automatically places the ingredients on the pizza dough arranged on the conveyor. It has a camera inside, which recognizes the center of the pizza dough, maintains proper spacing and aligns the ingredients. This product only aligns the ingredients on the pizza dough, it does not make pizza dough, prepare food, or bake pizza. It is said that up to 300 sheets of 12-inch pizza per hour, and 180 sheets of 18-inch pizza can be made.
The developer is Picnic, a startup located in Seattle, USA. The company reportedly developed an automatic food production system over three years. The machine itself is large enough to fit in most restaurant kitchens, and it can handle fresh ingredients and choose recipes, making it ideal for automating and streamlining the production of pizza served to restaurants.
The US pizza restaurant market is worth $46 billion annually. However, more than 80% of the workers working in restaurants change their jobs within a year. In this respect, it can be said that the pizza manufacturing system responds to the market demand. Picnic rents the product, and the rent includes maintenance and software and hardware renewal fees. Through the official website, the company said that sooner or later it will be possible to manufacture a variety of dishes such as sandwiches and salads. Related information can be found here.