The future of fast food was supposed to look something like this: walk into a restaurant, place an order, and watch a robot assemble your pizza with machine-like precision. Instead, some of the companies that promised to automate pizza-making have struggled to turn that vision into a sustainable business.
The latest example is Picnic, whose robotic pizza-making system was deployed at a Moto Pizza restaurant in Seattle. But in May, its supplier abruptly shut down, leaving the restaurant with expensive machines and no technical support. Lee Kindell, who had invested about $160,000 in the cabinet-like equipment, was left questioning whether…
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