Gene Marks: This pizza shop is using robots to cut costs
As if that's not enough, the approximately 75,000 pizza shop owners in this country, like most small business owners, are facing higher costs of employment this year–from rising minimum wages to requirements for more overtime pay and increased demands for paid time off. To reduce their labor costs, big companies are investing heavily in technology to automate manual processes and encourage more customers to help themselves. But the typical pizza shop owner can't do that. Alex Garden and Julia Collins and their Silicon Valley start-up, Zume Pizza, are about to turn the business of making pizza as inside-out as a calzone. And in doing so they could disrupt an industry that employs tens of thousands of people.
Sep-16-2016, 19:05:35 GMT
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