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How automation helps labor issues in today's restaurants

Labor remains a top issue for restaurateurs and management teams and an increasing number of operators are turning to automation to ease labor woes. That's the topic of a recent Pizza Marketplace podcast.

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March 10, 2022

Labor remains a top issue for restaurateurs and management teams and an increasing number of operators are turning to automation to ease labor woes.

That's the topic of a recent Pizza Marketplace podcast. The guest speaker was Clayton Wood, CEO of Picnic Works. The podcast was moderated by Mandy Wolf Detwiler, managing editor of Networld Media Group and editor of Pizza Marketplace.

The focus was the Picnic Pizza Station, a back-of-house makeline tool that needs just one operator to make up to 100 consistent pizzas per hour with less than 2% food waste.

"Our customer is the food service industry," Wood said in the podcast. "The pain points — labor shortages, high ingredient costs, difficult to make consistent product in volume — we wanted to build an automation unit that could really tackle that and future-proof our customers' success."

"Our system is different from some others in the market in that we aspire to make any pizza, not just a specific pizza," Wood said, "and every pizza we make is customized — size, shape and toppings — so it's just like a make station in a restaurant except that it's made with automation. It's easier to hit production targets, it's easier to hit production targets and it's a more consistent quality."

To learn more about automation and the advantages of the Picnic Pizza Station, click play above.

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