The National Park Service and Evelyn Hill Inc., the food service concessionaire at the Statue of Liberty since 1931 and Ellis Island since 2009, cooked up a way to celebrate pizza. The organizations invited five purveyors of one of America’s favorite foods to share their crusty craftsmanship and their founder’s … More
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French Robotics Company Receives $10M Investment for Fully-Automated Restaurant
A pizza robot company, PAZZI, recently received €10 million ($12,760,000 USD) in anticipation of opening a fully-automated pilot restaurant with pizza robots. The investment is from Singaporean fund Qualgro along with French fund Eutopia and investors Partech and Daphni. “The autonomous restaurant concept offered by PAZZI is meeting a growing … More
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MIT Teaches AI to Configure Recipes from Pictures of Pizza
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an AI network that reverse-engineers pizza by deconstructing a scanned picture of the pie to its basic ingredients. The scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Qatar Computer Research Institute (QCRI) created a neural network which … More
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ESPN3 Gears Up to Broadcast Third U.S. Pizza Team Event This Year
For the third time this year, pizza athletes will test their mettle under the gaze of TV cameras as the U.S. Pizza Team (USPT) holds its Summer Trials in Haverhill, on June 25. Talented pizza makers from far and wide will gather at the New England Pizza Conference to compete … More
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Domino’s to Test Driverless Delivery in Houston This Fall
Domino’s is famously known as the tech company that delivers pizza, and its latest innovation will feature driverless pizza delivery. The pizza chain has announced a partnership with Nuro, a robotics company founded by two former Google engineers, for a pilot program of self-driving cars delivering pizza throughout Houston, Texas … More
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Indiana’s First Restaurant Accelerator Taking Applications for Chef/Operators
The city of Fishers, Indiana, has launched a search for chefs who will become the first occupants of its restaurant accelerator, the Fishers Test Kitchen. The accelerator, the first in the state, will open this fall within the new Sun King Brewing in The Yard at Fishers District. The Fishers … More
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The Chef’s Corner: Brittany Saxton, Six Hundred Downtown
Bellefontaine, Ohio: If you don’t pronounce it “Bell-Fountain,” you have already outed yourself as a tourist. Home of America’s shortest street, McKinley Street (only 20 feet long), and Campbell Hill, the highest point in Ohio, Bellefontaine holds some impressive records. So does Brittany Saxton, the owner of Six Hundred … More
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Pizza Styles: Best of the Southwest
Pratt Morales only incorporated pizza into his menu about 12 years ago. From the high plains and stunning red-rock deserts to the Grand Canyon, the American Southwest has more than its share of natural wonders. One of them is named Pratt Morales. The energetic, ever-smiling owner of … More
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Chef’s Corner: Anthony Spina-O4W Pizza
Atlanta is known as the home of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Coca-Cola’s headquarters, the Falcons and the Braves, and The Walking Dead TV series. This beautiful Southern peach of a city comes with a lot of character in both its citizens and lingo. Terms like … More
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How to Build a Private-Label Food Business
U.S. Pizza Team premiere member Lenny Rago, co-owner of Panino’s Pizza in Chicago, has been around the competition circuit for quite a while. Competing and winning both domestically and abroad, he knows how people think of pizzas and ingredients. Which is probably why he and his partners at Panino’s … More
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Old Forge-Style Pizza is a Cut Above
It takes hubris for a little town of 8,300 to call itself the “pizza capital of the world,” but pizzeria owners in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, know exactly what they’re doing. They’ve got their own pizza style, a rare sense of community and camaraderie, and a firm belief … More
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Pizza Sports Make a Splash on ESPN3
David Whisker might not throw a 90-m.p.h. fastball, but sports fans around the country know him as a box-folding speed demon—thanks to the U.S. Pizza Team’s (USPT) history-making debut on ESPN3 in January. They also watched world-champion contender Scott Volpe spin a pair of doughs in a … More