Domino’s Pizza has delivered a brand new 33,000-square-foot “innovation storage” in Ann Arbor targeted on cooking up cutting-edge pizza know-how.
The pizza firm opened the brand new work facility at Domino’s Farms, the expansive workplace park the place it’s headquartered off U.S. 23 and M-14. Domino’s Innovation Storage homes 150 workers in an open, collaborative area, in line with a Tuesday information launch.
The principle part of the constructing is the “pizza theater,” or a proofing floor for pizza tech starting from self-order kiosks and carry-out GPS trackers to autonomous supply autos and robots reminiscent of Nuro’s R2 — an unmanned car that can take a look at pizza deliveries later this 12 months. The 2-story facility will home the entire firm’s AnyWare ordering know-how and in-store know-how.
“We’re proud to now have an area devoted to studying, exploring, testing and launching new concepts in a method that solely Domino’s can do,” Kelly Garcia, chief know-how officer for the corporate, mentioned within the launch.
As customers enhance demand for supply and fast, hassle-free transactions, large pizza chains are additionally morphing into tech companies. Domino’s has made no secret of its aggressive funding in know-how. Opponents, reminiscent of Detroit-based Little Caesars and Sterling Heights-based Jet’s Pizza, are additionally shifting sources to satisfy client demand.
Domino’s (NYSE: DPZ), the most important pizza firm on this planet based mostly on retail gross sales, had income of $three.four billion and revenue of $362 million in 2018.
Extra data on the tech hub was not instantly accessible.
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