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title: "Pizza Hut Introduces Fully-Automated, Zero-Emission Mobile Kitchen"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/14d74cea-be46-4ed5-ad1a-1edf5da6495f
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/pizza-hut-introduces-fully-automated-zero-emission-mobile-kitchen-2708321
category: "Pizza"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Pizza"
published: 2018-10-30T22:17:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:08:39.226Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/51815b9073d0b0448c5558cffb6d6e42943.jpg
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# Pizza Hut Introduces Fully-Automated, Zero-Emission Mobile Kitchen

**TL;DR:** Pizza Hut has developed a fully automated mobile kitchen with a zero-emission design in partnership with Toyota. The kitchen, called the Tundra PIE Pro, is currently a prototype and may be deployed to a test market in the future.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-10-30. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/pizza-hut-introduces-fully-automated-zero-emission-mobile-kitchen-2708321).*

## Story

Pizza Hut has developed a fully automated mobile kitchen with an eco-friendly twist. According to a recent article in Nation's Restaurant News, this zero-emission design made its debut at the SEMA car show in Las Vegas. It was created through a partnership between Toyota and Pizza Hut. The kitchen itself features a refrigerator, high-speed oven, computer-guided mechanical arm and even a pizza box assembly station.

Pizzas are pre-assembled and stowed in the refrigerator. The mechanical arm transfers the pizza to the oven and later into a pizza box. The entire process lasts under seven minutes.

“Currently the Tundra PIE Pro is just a prototype and we’re looking forward to learning more before making a decision to deploy it into a test market. This next-generation technology could lead to a number of potential uses down the road,” said chief customer and operations officer, Nicolas Burquier.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- partnership (topic)
- Pizza Hut (company)
- Toyota (company)
- mobile kitchen (topic)
- prototype (topic)
- zero emission (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/pizza-hut-introduces-fully-automated-zero-emission-mobile-kitchen-2708321). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/14d74cea-be46-4ed5-ad1a-1edf5da6495f).