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> I fail to see how current pizza delivery can be improved ten times. Before reading this thread's comments, I would have agreed. But I have to admit, orderin

> I fail to see how current pizza delivery can be improved ten times. Before reading this thread's comments, I would have agreed. But I have to admit, ordering a pizza and then ten minutes later receiving it at my doorstep having been removed from the oven less than a minute ago seems like a 10x improvement to my current experience.

EscapeFromNY 3y ago
I'm with you. Zume would have had a better chance if they refunded $440 million of that investment money, then spent the last $10 million to buy a few trucks and hire human beings to make the pizzas.
- pgwhalen 3y ago
  I wonder what that would cost the customer for it to be profitable. I doubt I'd pay 2x what I currently do for pizza delivery even if it was as I described above.
  - detourdog 3y ago
    Where I live Dominios can't find/afford drivers to deliver the pizza(one is in jail for Jan.6th). I find the whole premise of Zune offensive to common business sense. The demand for pizza cannot be so great that it deserves this type of automation. This complex production path effort has no chance of payoff and contributes nothing to the product the customer wanted, a pizza. The crazy thing is that pizza production is so simple and the only reason to make it complex pizza production is the business model not.
    - gnicholas 3y ago
      I assume they were starting with pizzas and planning to expand to other cuisine from there. The idea of having hot, freshly-cooked food delivered to your door is one that could be worth a ton of money. But this wasn’t the right path, apparently!
atonse 3y ago
I’ve had this business idea for ages sans robots. Put pizza ovens on trucks and plan it so the pizza finishes cooking as you pull up. I still feel that could be viable. A cook in the back and driver in front. These guys seemed to want to over engineer everything.
- detourdog 3y ago
  They were trying to build a technical moat that 2 guys and truck couldn't replicate. They didn't care what business was started as long as it had a moat and was scalable.

EscapeFromNY 3y ago

I'm with you. Zume would have had a better chance if they refunded $440 million of that investment money, then spent the last $10 million to buy a few trucks and hire human beings to make the pizzas.

pgwhalen 3y ago
I wonder what that would cost the customer for it to be profitable. I doubt I'd pay 2x what I currently do for pizza delivery even if it was as I described above.
- detourdog 3y ago
  Where I live Dominios can't find/afford drivers to deliver the pizza(one is in jail for Jan.6th). I find the whole premise of Zune offensive to common business sense. The demand for pizza cannot be so great that it deserves this type of automation. This complex production path effort has no chance of payoff and contributes nothing to the product the customer wanted, a pizza. The crazy thing is that pizza production is so simple and the only reason to make it complex pizza production is the business model not.
  - gnicholas 3y ago
    I assume they were starting with pizzas and planning to expand to other cuisine from there. The idea of having hot, freshly-cooked food delivered to your door is one that could be worth a ton of money. But this wasn’t the right path, apparently!

atonse 3y ago

I’ve had this business idea for ages sans robots. Put pizza ovens on trucks and plan it so the pizza finishes cooking as you pull up. I still feel that could be viable. A cook in the back and driver in front. These guys seemed to want to over engineer everything.

detourdog 3y ago
They were trying to build a technical moat that 2 guys and truck couldn't replicate. They didn't care what business was started as long as it had a moat and was scalable.