INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Zume first made waves by entering the scene as a robotic pizza company
Since then, however, the SF Bay Area startup has taken pains to demonstrate that it has its sights set on a loftier goal of providing
sustainable infrastructure for the restaurant industry.Last April, the company made its Zume Pizza wing a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Seven months later, it reportedly snapped up $375 million from SoftBank, and, in June, used some of that money to purchase Pivot, a
plant-based alternative packaging company.Today, the company takes an important step toward larger industry outreach with the announcement
native Washington, D.C.The food truck model opens the company to some new opportunities not always afforded by the standard brick and mortar
of dollars and takes a year, sometimes more, to open up a bricks and mortar store, but by leveraging our infrastructure they can open a new
appears as though the company has made a pivot from a focus on robot-made pizza to something much broader in search of a more viable model
Zume is quick to counter such claims, however, as Garden compares the company to the early days of Amazon
The executive notes that the company has shifted its focus to various aspects of the industry as offering real-world services like its pizza
trucks has brought to life various solvable problems.He turns to the example of pizza boxes, which Zume has transformed from the
recognizable square cardboard variety to a round one with grates at the bottom, designed with the express purpose of keeping their contents
very least, it has led the company in some interesting directions, and $375 million from SoftBank certainly demonstrates strong investor
confidence for a startup with big ideas about revolutionizing the food industry.Interestingly, it will also make -pizza a potential
