>For starters, the dough preparation, sauce making and baking — the real art of pizza — is left in the capable, five-fingered hands of people.
So all of the stuff that actually takes time is still manual. All this thing does is throw down some toppings. And then takes all the time and more it "saves" to clean it properly and reload it.
You have to wonder why we really need pizza to be round in shape but then they package it into a rectangular cardboard box. Like there is a whole part of the machine that takes the leftover dough after cutting the circular shapes. Seems inefficient.
Its commercially taking subconscious advantage of the consumer who sees "big box which seems full" but actually gets "circular portion less some". If you went efficient, your product would be square and look smaller than the competition.
So all of the stuff that actually takes time is still manual. All this thing does is throw down some toppings. And then takes all the time and more it "saves" to clean it properly and reload it.
Want to see how pizza making is actually automated? Try Totinos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqULgulLq3Q