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From AgFunder:
Offering Robot Chefs That Can Serve 5 Million Types of Pizza, France’s Pazzi Raises Over $11m Series A
The French robotic pizzeria Pazzi has raised over $11 million of Series A funding.
That is all rather a lot of dough for a pizzeria. To get going, most of those restaurants just need a chef, a license and an oven — along with a few cheeses, flours and sauces. Which is why pizza production is such a globally ubiquitous, saturated and competitive part of food retail.
But what clearly resonated with Pazzi’s investors is really about who — or what — will be making that pizza: It will be a sweatless robot toiling ceaselessly by the restaurant’s roaring pizza oven, rapidly yet precisely kneading and rolling dough; slathering on a bit of sauce; sprinkling on other toppings; sliding it gently into the oven until slightly crispy. Never dozing off or getting distracted by ravenous punters, the robot removes the pizza, slices it up, and serves it with aplomb. Buon appetito!
“Like with sushi, pizzerias are the type of restaurant where there is a show. It was important to keep that tradition,” Pazzi CEO Phillipe Goldman tells AFN by phone late Sunday night as he revealed the news of his company’s latest raise. “We observed and learned from the habits of great pizzaïolos,” he says, describing his company’s robotic pizza maker as “one of the best in the world,” while claiming it can make up to five million pizza combinations with its various ingredients. Goldman says that all the dough is “lab sourced” and all the ingredients are more traceable, healthier and more sustainable than at incumbent fast food chains.
Pazzi, which means crazy in Italian, has focused on high quality sourcing and exceptional recipes thanks to help from celebrity chef Thierry Graffagnino — a three time pizza world champion — who has produced recipes based on organic vegetables from Italy, clean label hams, French PDO cheeses, sustainable fish, and flour from Ile-de-France mills....MUCH MORE
