You're not really building a robot, instead filling in the line between already automated sequences like the oven and chiller. Costco has a saucing mechanism, the biggest transformations are storing delivered inventory, managing dough proofing, topping pizzas accurately and self-cleaning. Cutting, boxing, delivering and taking orders is all straightforward.

I know what a schedule looks like, I used to make them for some of the busiest pizza shops out there. Shops next to universities and large business districts are the easiest to make the financial savings argument. The shops that benefit from a 24/7 model can make savings and increase throughput. Delivering on-time and without error can be massively improved. Making a cost reduction on the huge amounts of tiny shops out there is a great place to prove the tech financially, not where you'll see the most dramatic impact.

There is another automated pizza startup out there that has taken big frozen pizza factory tech and shrunk it down to retail size. It's not the right answer either. That tech makes too much sacrifice in accuracy, flexibility and quality for quantity.

There are more factors that go into this, maybe something better pursued elsewhere than discussed here.