After a two-year tryout in the suburbs, a robot pizzeria has opened in Paris, with an assortment of silvery robotic devices flattening dough, adding sauce and toppings, pushing pizzas into the oven and then boxing them up.
Pazzi Pizza, whose sign in English says “Come for the Show, Stay for the Pizza” insists it’s not just a gimmick; one of the co-founders told TheLocal.fr that “It’s a very fast process, the timing is perfectly controlled and quality is assured because the robots are consistent.” And it can churn out 80 pizzas an hour.
The company is ambitions: it aims to open more Paris locations soon, and plans to be in Switzerland next spring, and eventually everywhere. And it’s apparently serious about the pizza: Pazzi hired Thierry Graffagnino who has won the World Pizza Contest in Rome three times to help it get the recipes and process right.
