Silicon Valley can’t quit its pizza robot obsession (bloomberg.com)

While I'm not opposed to creating useless machinery - if not for the entertainment alone, it seems insulting to create a machine that replicates a minimum wage employee. Why not create a pizza store management machine instead? If you really want to make a useful machine that works AND saves money, trim from the top.

I thought about doing this when I was a teen. :)

> Mushrooms, Iyer learned, are a must. They outrank onions, green peppers and black olives as the top-requested veggie topping, according to the research firm NPD Group.

The most popular vegetable isn't even a vegetable.