A robotics-powered mobile pizza restaurant called Stellar Pizza is making its debut in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2022.
This new concept comes from former SpaceX Engineer Benson Tsai, along with Brian Langone and James Wahawisan. The trio started the new pizza concept in May 2019 and aimed to revolutionize a new pizza machine. Two years later, they use cutting-edge technology and advanced robotics to create an automated, touchless machine that bakes pizza from scratch in under five minutes. Stellar’s concise menu is entirely assembled by robotic machinery.
Ted Cizma, former Executive Chef and Director of Culinary Services at SpaceX, collaborated with pizza consultant, Noel Brohner, to create a recipe that makes serving affordable, high-quality pizza to the masses possible. The company uses the freshest ingredients in every pie, including a homemade dough and tomato sauce, followed by Grande East Coast Mozzarella.
With the maximum capability to produce a pizza every 45 seconds, the food truck can deliver a larger quantity of fresh, gourmet pizzas more consistently than its brick-and-mortar counterparts. The robotic pizza-making process starts with a freshly prepared ball of raw pizza dough, which gets pressed and shaped into a round pizza crust. Then, house-made sauce and fresh toppings are added. Lastly, the raw pizza is inserted into one of four high-temperature custom-designed ovens to bake to perfection.
