Elon Musk's SpaceX company is known for its space missions that launch satellites and rockets outside the planet. But a different stellar mission is about to deploy not in space but in a restaurant.
A team of former SpaceX workforce plans to disrupt the $45 billion American pizza market this autumn with the help of a robotic pizza maker.
Stellar Pizza, the idea of former SpaceX engineer Benson Tsai and former SpaceX chef Ted Cizma, would serve perfectly-cooked pizzas created by a machine within about five minutes.
Customers can select up to ten toppings for 12-inch pies, which will be priced between $7 and $12.
That device will mold a lump of dough into a pie and then evenly distribute sauce and toppings. That one was created using in-house electronics, is run by unique software, and would be placed within a van.
In the footage, a ball of dough is transferred to a dough press, which opens and smoothens it into a proportional pie form. Each dough is then sent to the topping line system, where sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and many other toppings are applied. Eventually, the pizzas are placed in one of four ovens to bake.
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Human personnel will be available on standby to deliver the final pizzas to clients. Stellar Pizza, which just got 16.5 million dollars ' worth of investment from Jay-Z, might debut at the University of California this autumn.
"Our developers intended to develop a company which would be new and disruptive, yet could also serve the common good by offering an excellent product at a fair price and accessible to everybody," Cizma informs The Manual.
Cizma allegedly obtained a command from SpaceX founder Elon Musk to develop a 'badass' restaurant in the center of the rocket facility. Their efforts developed a workforce of 200 and supplied 1.4 million foods annually throughout the space company's facilities.
"The one thing that resonates with me is that each dish you create is no more or less essential than the previous or subsequent dinner you cooked," he adds. "When you're providing 5,000 meals every day, that takes on new meaning."
Ted Cizma, the former SpaceX employee, makes pizza with a robot.
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Efficiency had been very certainly a concern at such a size.
According to the brand, the pizza dough is prepared in-house and matured for a few days to provide additional depth and taste.
Tsai explains to Pizza Today that 'Stellar fits through into the pizza market as a new brand that delivers on the promise of fast, fresh and economical pizza.' 'As the brand expands, Stellar Pizza aspires to be the obvious choice for any hungry consumer in need of fantastic pizza.'
Cizma even offers some pointers for everybody making pizza without the assistance of a robot. 'Don't scrimp on the ingredients,' he advises The Manual. 'Like software. Rubbish in, garbage out.'
Stellar is only one of the numerous firms involved in the robot-pizza space. PizzaHQ, situated in New Jersey, has hopes to expand after converting a standard pizza into a robotic one.
Restaurant robots, in general, are having a bit of a moment as the hospitality sector battles with rising inflation, labor demands for increased compensation, and, in certain locations, decreasing foot traffic due to the increasing popularity of home-based employment, according to a report from Daily Mail.
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