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Stellar Pizza to launch in LA
November 30, 2021
Robotics-powered mobile pizza restaurant Stellar Pizza will launch in Los Angeles in Spring 2022.
The mobile unit offers an automated, touchless machine that bakes and serves pizza from scratch in under five minutes under the direction of former SpaceX engineer turned CEO, Benson Tsai, according to a press release.
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. With the maximum capability to produce a pizza every 45 seconds, 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. Stellar's menu includes baking pies with traditional toppings, such as a pepperoni pizza or supreme pizza. A build-your-own pizza option is also available, with fresh topping options like onions, bacon, chicken, green peppers, olives and more.
In May 2019, Stellar Pizza was founded by a trio of ex-SpaceX engineers: Benson Tsai, Brian Langone and James Wahawisan. In addition to Tsai, Langone, and Wahawisan, the core engineering team at Stellar Pizza consists of 23 fellow previous SpaceX employees, all of which now lend their combined 100 years of rocket science experience to revolutionizing the pizza industry.
