piece of this and not part of the sharing economy in august zume wants to start cooking its pizzas in the startups patented delivery trucks each truck has 56 ovens that can be turned on and off remotely garden can barely contain his excitement for what comes next the robots will load all these individual ovens with different menu items then the truck will circle the neighborhood at precisely 3 minutes and 15 seconds before arriving at the customers location the cloud commands the oven to turn on and garden made the symbol of a large explosion emanating from his brain boom the customer gets a fresh outtheoven pizza delivered to their door nobody has ever done this before he said the santa clara county health department is reviewing zumes mobile food permit application now and the startups truck plan depends on its approval although laws vary from state to state traditional food trucks generally arent allowed to cook food while in motion garden is confident it wont be long before hes competing with the major pizza chains just imagine dominos without the labor component said garden you can start to see how incredibly profitable that can be yum brands incs pizza hut and dominos have been experimenting with robots too last month pizza hut asia partnered with mastercard and softbank to develop a robotic cashier named pepper which uses artificial intelligence to interact with customers the company plans to deploy pepper in selected outlets across asia by the end of the year said chaiti sen a mastercard spokeswoman in april dominos australia began testing an autonomous delivery vehicle named dru the 3foot fourwheeled machineit looks like a photocopier on wheels can make deliveries up to 6 miles said a company spokeswoman analysts were quick to raise skepticism about zumes grand plans especially considering that papa johns dominos and pizza hut account for 58 percent of the us pizza delivery market its a very difficult industry said michael halen a bloomberg intelligence research analyst focused on global restaurant chains john glass an analyst for morgan stanley said that a lack of recognition will make it hard for zume to compete with bigger names the big brands are gaining an incremental market share at the expense of smaller chains and independents he said for now zume is focusing on winning over locals adam martyn who works at stanford university said he treats himself to the lucky bueno every two weeks thats a spicy pie with roasted garlic calabrian chili and soppressata for 18 the robots are cool but i order because it tastes good martyn said bloomberg published on jun 25 2016 at 1248 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain