Mobile pizza ovens move to Menlo Park, Atherton

COSTCO has been using robotics for 2 years+ in producing their in-store pizzas:

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@COSTCO Member: Key here is they are delivered. Oh and made while en-route.... Pretty sure that was the gist of the story

Can you stop parking Zume pizza trucks in our neighborhood (Ventura, Palo Alto)? Thanks.

@Roberto: It would seem the pizzas are made on the Mountain View assembly line, then cooked and delivered en route to the customer. N'est pas?

I think @Jonathan needs a slice of Zume Sonrisa, and soon he'll be pleading Zume to park in Ventura. It's the best thing since sliced pizza.

Yesterday I saw a guy on a scooter delivering pizzas for Zume. Pizzas were definitely not being cooked in the styrofoam box mounted tin the back. So I guess not a pizzas are cooked in route.

My first experience with Zume was a disappointment - flavorless pizza that arrived 45min later than promised when I ordered. Ordered with it estimating 45min delivery (at 7:35pm), but once I paid it said 1 1/2 hours (9pm). Bottom line - double the estimated arrival time, if you want to eat at a specific time. Since it's all done via a website, I had no recourse except bad reviews.....

@Stats, I've ordered at least a dozen Zume pizzas and never had one arrive more than five minutes late. More often, they arrive early and in as little as 18 minutes.

@MPer, yes, they are not literally baked on the way to your house, so I think their advertising is misleading. The pizzas usually arrive in a decorated Fiat with a glowing trunk interior. I believe the large baking trucks are generally stationed at a few specific locations but I speculate that they could be strategically located based on demand, as well as for event catering. It's a scalable business plan.

Amicis (Santa Cruz Ave) and Howies (Town & Country) make the best pizzas.

my review

the pizza is NOT any better than any other delivery. you can't customize a pizza, which to most is table stakes for a pizza place. you can only order from one of a dozen pizzas, they are delivery only company, yet have the audacity to charge $3 for delivery, try building that into the price. no tipping, i'd rather give the $3 to the driver rather than be charged an additional fee. it's expensive $25 for their supreme pizza, all pies are one size, really? driver was so dependent on the app telling him where he was he never looked to see what street he was on, he was one street over and it took another 15 min and multiple phone calls to get me the pies.

overall i give it a C-. basically they are delivering run of the mill pizza pre-made by robots, yet is still takes at least 45 minutes to arrive semi warm.

it says in the article the founders want to change the world, well they are not even changing the world of pizza.

let me know when you can cook the pizza on route, they maybe you'll have something. until then, just another mediocre, expensive pizza delivery chain where you can't get a pepperoni with mushrooms.