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Re:Fallen Pizza Startup Zume Shuts Down After Raising Millions by EscapeFromNY on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:03PM (#36177757)
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.
Re:Fallen Pizza Startup Zume Shuts Down After Raising Millions by pgwhalen on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:19PM (#36177906)
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.
Re:Fallen Pizza Startup Zume Shuts Down After Raising Millions by detourdog on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:38PM (#36178107)
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.

Re:Fallen Pizza Startup Zume Shuts Down After Raising Millions by gnicholas on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:34PM (#36179267)
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!