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What is so unique about Zume Pizza?
A small start-up called Zume Pizza is attracting lot of attention. It employs $100,000 robots to make the pizzas and owns delivery vans that cook the pizzas on the way to give buyers piping hot pizzas.
Zume’s business model has caught the eye of competing companies. As observed by Julia Collins, co-founder of Zume, some of them are taking images of the office and the delivery vans. To protect its technology, Zume has patented the process of cooking pizzas in moving vans.
The Economist reports that although Zume has started well, there could be stumbling blocks along the way. It is very capital-intensive, having invested heavily in robots and technologically advanced delivery vans. Therefore, it will take a long time to break even, or to increase production to serve a wider region. Moreover, investments in innovative technology has not shown expected results for companies like grilled cheese sandwich-maker "The Melt" and vegan mayonnaise-maker "Hampton Creek."
The American pizza industry is worth $34 billion and dominated by Pizza Hut, Domino’s, and Papa John’s. It will take some doing for Zume Pizza to gain consumer confidence and a strong market share.
What is so unique about Zume Pizza?
Who is the co-founder of Zume?
Which of the following dominates the American pizza industry?
It will take some doing for Zume Pizza to gain consumer confidence.
In the above sentence, what does the word confidence mean?
Some ___ them are taking images ___ the office and the delivery vans.
Which of the following pairs of prepositions would you use to complete the sentence?
Why could Zume face problems in the future?
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