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How many frozen pizzas does a pizza factory make, per hour? Is that the real competition?

by jpm_sd 7y ago

wizzard 7y ago
I was confused about this too. I think the win here is that the machine is small enough to actually fit in a fast-food restaurant. Plus, they're planning to branch out from pizza.
Rychard 7y ago
I assume such factories employ machinery that isn't suitable for use elsewhere. Additionally, it seems unlikely that such machinery would have been designed to produce individual customized pizzas on an as-needed basis, whereas this seems built specifically to address both of those points. I'm no pizza connoisseur, but the pizzas in that video don't look particularly appetizing.
- ghaff 7y ago
  > That speed comes in handy in places where large numbers of orders come in during a rush, such as at a stadium or in large cafeterias In other words, their pitch isn't to be appetizing. It's to crank out a lot of pizzas for buyers who aren't being picky at peak hours when you can sell just about anything.
Mathnerd314 7y ago
"G. Mondini pizza assembly lines feature the highest cycle speeds in the industry - up to 7,200 pizzas per hour." (https://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-processing-spotlight https://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-...) Judging from https://youtu.be/Do7qLGiVbwY?t=164 https://youtu.be/Do7qLGiVbwY?t=164, the advantage is that they have 3 pizzas in each row rather than just one, and that the pizzas move much faster along the conveyor. It's also not clear from the article but the Seattle system might only support 1 pizza in the system at a time. The dough is still hand-made, which is an advantage over frozen pizza dough which pretty much sucks, so I'd guess they're primarily interested in selling to delivery pizza chains as a more upscale pizza. Domino's peak is 160 pizzas/hour and they open stores until the average is <100. (https://www.quora.com/How-many-pizzas-does-a-Manhattan-pizzeria-sell-each-hour https://www.quora.com/How-many-pizzas-does-a-Manhattan-pizze...)
- objektif 7y ago
  Sorry to say this but pizzas in that youtube video look disgusting.
  - Mathnerd314 7y ago
    Yeah, typically the details of high-quality manufacturing processes are considered trade secrets and so there aren't videos of them. I'm not sure if it's the same pizza as the packaging doesn't quite match but the pizza is similar to this box: https://i.redd.it/hrizyz9gnmdz.jpg https://i.redd.it/hrizyz9gnmdz.jpg Here is some cheap Italian brand of frozen pizza, probably higher quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4n4upANvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4n4upANvQ
    - objektif 7y ago
      Well the Italian brand looks at least a million times better.

How many frozen pizzas does a pizza factory make, per hour? Is that the real competition?

by jpm_sd 7y ago

How many frozen pizzas does a pizza factory make, per hour? Is that the real competition?

I was confused about this too. I think the win here is that the machine is small enough to actually fit in a fast-food restaurant. Plus, they're planning to branch out from pizza.

Rychard 7y ago

I assume such factories employ machinery that isn't suitable for use elsewhere. Additionally, it seems unlikely that such machinery would have been designed to produce individual customized pizzas on an as-needed basis, whereas this seems built specifically to address both of those points. I'm no pizza connoisseur, but the pizzas in that video don't look particularly appetizing.

ghaff 7y ago
> That speed comes in handy in places where large numbers of orders come in during a rush, such as at a stadium or in large cafeterias In other words, their pitch isn't to be appetizing. It's to crank out a lot of pizzas for buyers who aren't being picky at peak hours when you can sell just about anything.

Mathnerd314 7y ago

"G. Mondini pizza assembly lines feature the highest cycle speeds in the industry - up to 7,200 pizzas per hour." (https://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-processing-spotlight https://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-...) Judging from https://youtu.be/Do7qLGiVbwY?t=164 https://youtu.be/Do7qLGiVbwY?t=164, the advantage is that they have 3 pizzas in each row rather than just one, and that the pizzas move much faster along the conveyor. It's also not clear from the article but the Seattle system might only support 1 pizza in the system at a time. The dough is still hand-made, which is an advantage over frozen pizza dough which pretty much sucks, so I'd guess they're primarily interested in selling to delivery pizza chains as a more upscale pizza. Domino's peak is 160 pizzas/hour and they open stores until the average is <100. (https://www.quora.com/How-many-pizzas-does-a-Manhattan-pizzeria-sell-each-hour https://www.quora.com/How-many-pizzas-does-a-Manhattan-pizze...)

objektif 7y ago
Sorry to say this but pizzas in that youtube video look disgusting.
- Mathnerd314 7y ago
  Yeah, typically the details of high-quality manufacturing processes are considered trade secrets and so there aren't videos of them. I'm not sure if it's the same pizza as the packaging doesn't quite match but the pizza is similar to this box: https://i.redd.it/hrizyz9gnmdz.jpg https://i.redd.it/hrizyz9gnmdz.jpg Here is some cheap Italian brand of frozen pizza, probably higher quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4n4upANvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4n4upANvQ
  - objektif 7y ago
    Well the Italian brand looks at least a million times better.