The thing is, people aren’t going to come in every day to work for 2 hours. If you’re hiring someone, you get much better results hiring them for more hours. So now you have a guy come in to make dough and pay him another six hours to baby sit a machine that also costs as much as the worker? Partial automation doesn’t make any sense when it results in people standing around.
But what you’re talking about is real–machines do lower labor cost for pizza. Every pizza place has a giant mixer almost as tall as I am with a dough hook to make its dough in the morning.
The thing is, people aren’t going to come in every day to work for 2 hours. If you’re hiring someone, you get much better results hiring them for more hours. So now you have a guy come in to make dough and pay him another six hours to baby sit a machine that also costs as much as the worker? Partial automation doesn’t make any sense when it results in people standing around.
But what you’re talking about is real–machines do lower labor cost for pizza. Every pizza place has a giant mixer almost as tall as I am with a dough hook to make its dough in the morning.
I assume the person making the dough is also prepping by chopping vegetables and meats, as well as babysitting the machine.
Zero people is impossible (since regardless someone has to load the machine), but reducing from 3 down to 2 or down to 1, that could be possible.