Seattle-based Picnic unveiled at the moment the first-of-its-kind clever end-to-end automated meeting platform for the meals service and hospitality industries. The compact, freestanding system integrates Picnic’s issued U.S. patent and different U.S. and worldwide patent-pending modular, configurable tools, with its software program, cloud and deep studying expertise, and is accessible to prospects with no upfront prices. The platform will initially deal with the manufacturing of high-volume, customizable pizzas, made with any sort of elements, persistently and sequentially, at a charge of as much as 180 18” or 300 12” pizzas per hour.
The corporate additionally revealed two of its first prospects, Centerplate (www.centerplate.com), a frontrunner in stay occasion hospitality for greater than 115 million company every year at greater than 200 distinguished sports activities, leisure and conference venues, and Washington-based restaurant Zaucer Pizza (www.zaucerpizza.com). Centerplate is making use of the brand new expertise at T-Cellular Park, house of the Seattle Mariners.
Picnic will spotlight their platform and options and showcase the system’s first stay public presentation of its pizza manufacturing capabilities on the 2019 Good Kitchen Summit (www.smartkitchensummit.com), the main meals tech occasion in North America, October 7 and eight, at Seattle’s Bell Harbor Worldwide Convention Heart. Picnic CEO Clayton Wooden will current on the present’s “Reinventing the Restaurant” panel.
Picnic’s platform units itself aside by its end result of unmatched capabilities in manufacturing customization and throughput; sensible back-end information and cloud analytics; and its means to repeatedly study and meet the altering wants of meals service operators, shield their manufacturers and elevate prospects’ general expertise with meals.
“We’re defining the brand new customary for meals preparation and supply the one pizza automation platform supporting mass customization,” mentioned Wooden. “Picnic permits meals service operators to eradicate many present ache factors and deal with evolving client tastes.”
Many U.S. and worldwide meals service suppliers and trade consultants are recognizing the differentiation of Picnic’s platform.
“We all the time search to be on the leading edge, relating to AI, robotics and figuring out new technological options that allow us to offer a greater expertise for our followers,” mentioned Adrian Dishington, Senior Vice President, Centerplate. “We’re blissful to roll out a pilot of the Picnic pizza-making expertise in our kitchens, as we glance to reinforce our high quality and pace of service. Know-how that permits workers to be extra profitable will affect the visitor expertise at ballgames, live shows and all varieties of occasions shifting ahead.”
Picnic’s expertise, options and enterprise mannequin are designed to make it easy for operators to make the most of the corporate’s choices and capabilities. The platform solely requires a small footprint and the modular, configurable tools makes it versatile to slide into a big selection of stationary and cellular kitchen codecs.
“There’s no want to put in outsized industrial robotic arms requiring specifically modified environments or retrofitting, and employees can work alongside with no security issues,” added Wooden.
Picnic will ship, set up and preserve the system, and supply platform and software program updates for a month-to-month price with no cash upfront. The corporate may also present customized design software program options for operators to combine with current point-of-sale and ordering methods.
“The meeting system is extraordinarily versatile and painless to arrange. It’s secure to work round, takes little house to function and solely minimal coaching is required,” mentioned Aaron Roberts, Co-CEO of Zaucer Pizza. “Their expertise’s secret sauce will make our pizza manufacturing course of extra environment friendly and enterprise extra aggressive. Having Picnic’s capabilities in our kitchens makes me assured we will navigate future market dynamics and higher handle our sources.”
Pizza trade consultants and meals innovators agree that Picnic can remodel the pizza panorama and assist meals operators higher succeed. “Consistency of product is a meals operator’s largest indicator for re-occurring enterprise,” added Kati Fritz-Jung, former VP of Analysis, Growth and High quality Assurance at Little Caesars. “Picnic’s breakthrough pizza platform will guarantee ongoing comfort and consistency of meals high quality for shoppers. Operators will exponentially improve the flexibility to draw new prospects and hold them coming again for extra.”
Kurt Dammeier, founding father of Sugar Mountain (sugarmtn.web), a nationwide meals firm that’s house to a set of famend meals manufacturers and eating places, comparable to Beecher’s Handmade Cheese, The Butcher’s Desk and Mishima Reserve, sees Picnic’s qualities attracting consideration and finally utilized throughout a number of meals segments. “Meals service operators are actually higher geared up to simply supply economical and tailor-made meals to their prospects, in addition to, enhance workflow, scheduling and kitchen situations for workers,” mentioned Dammeier. “I’ve witnessed Picnic’s system in motion. No different meals preparation or automation system compares. I can think about numerous varieties of dishes being produced and meals service operators, throughout all segments, placing of their rush order to acquire Picnic’s platform. We’re blissful to see Picnic be a part of the Meals Revolution.”
