Secretive Seattle based start-up Picnic, an innovator of food production technology and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions, has announced that it was selected by Hospitality Innovation Planet (HIP) as “The Most Disruptive Company” in the Robotics category and will be presented with the award at the Foodservice Robotics Pioneers event sponsored by HIP.
The modular system created by Picnic is the first of its kind. It can perform any number of food assembly tasks in any order. Currently, it only makes pizza, but soon it will be able to make a wide variety of foods including sandwiches, salads and more.
One worker is all that is needed to keep the machine stocked, the system can then produce 300 12-inch pizzas or 180 18-inch pizzas in one hour.
While the technology is incredibly impressive, it is also a little scary. This robot can vastly out-perform real humans. The name of the HIP award Picnic is set to receive seems spot on, it will be interesting to see how this kind of technology disrupts the QSR industry in the future.
