Did You Know Costco Uses Robots To Make Their Pizzas?!
Ok, that’s it! I’ve officially seen it all. Sometimes I get a little freaked out by new technologies I hear about and want to curl up in a little ball thinking that the world is going to be overturned by robots and none of us will know how to interact with each other anymore. This is probably a combination of watching too much Walking Dead and hearing about too many absurd technologies like having a camera inside your fridge connected to your smart phone so while you’re out shopping you can see if you need to grab a gallon of milk. (My husband thinks this is awesome. I think it’s too far perhaps?? I don’t know what to think!)
When I learned that Costco now uses robots to make their pizzas to get the perfect amount of sauce, among other things, I was shocked! I was basically picturing R2D2 taking orders at the front while C3PO was throwing around pizza dough in the back.
But upon further investigation, it is not as crazy as it sounds. Take a look.
First, the dough is loaded into a flattening machine that presses it and gives it a burst of low heat to make sure the dough is exactly uniform in thickness. Then the pizza heads over to the sauce robot, which as you can see is quite mesmerizing to watch.
Once the dough is sauced, it’s sent over to the topping station, where Costco employees weigh out exactly the same amount of mozzarella and provolone cheese for every pizza, so each one comes out with a thick, uniform layer of cheese on top, with no annoying bald spots or burnt sauce.
Pretty cool, eh? Well done, Costco! You gotta love the place you can get a giant hot dog the size of your arm and a drink for $1.50 (who also uses robots to make pizza)! Now, if we could just figure out those lines at the food court! That is the one place where people do NOT know what to do or where to go! Should I follow the maze lines? Should I bring my cart with me?? Nobody knows exactly what to do.
If only they still had Coke at the dang soda machines to ease the stress of the lines, rather than switching to dang Pepsi! Whhhyyyyy??! :)
While we’re on the topic of Costco, it’s always fun every once in a while to think about the funny things you’ll only see at Costco.
Only at Costco will you find this resourceful guy…
This really is probably the only place you can get free samples of Doritos AND be able to cruise around the store with an iPad playing the college football game that is currently on. Hey, I guess he’s at least getting some steps in rather than sitting on the couch with a bag of Doritos :) That’s a pretty smart shopper.
Only at Costco will you find a teddy bear that would fill my guest room…
While those got a ton of use for selfies, I really wonder how many of those they actually sold! I can’t imagine anyone having the space for one of these bad boys. And coming in at $260, that’s a lot of dough to drop on a funny joke.
Only at Costco will you find these two items by each other….
Yep. That’s a beautiful wedding gown next to some tires. Because why wouldn’t those two things be by each other?!
Please feel free to share any and all thoughts on Costco queues, technology, Star Wars, or anything else your heart desires in the comments below :)
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- www.robots-and-adroids.com
- www.thekitchn.com
Mary Richardson
Weekly Newsletter Contributor since 2014
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