• Picnic, a pizza-making robot developer, has extended its partnership with pizza restaurant PizzaHQ to deploy its Picnic pizza station at the latter’s location in Totowa, New Jersey. 

• Picnic’s unit will be configured to make PizzaHQ’s recipe consistently. The companies believe this will cut the cost of pizza making by nearly 50%.

• The two companies have been working together since 2021 and are currently serving corporate and education customers at the Totowa store, which will be launched to the public later this month. The unit currently makes 500+ pizzas a day, expecting to make nearly 1,500 a day when the store opens to the public.

<ul><li> Analyst QuickTake: With today’s news, PizzaHQ adds to Picnic’s growing list of partners including contract food service management company Chartwells (to deploy units at university locations) and Speedy Eats, a developer of mobile automated kitchens for parking lots (becoming its exclusive pizza assembly systems supplier). Both partnered with the company just last month.</ul>