Robotic pizza maker Zume will lay off over half of its staff, including over 250 positions in California, in a move that signals a retreat from delivering pies to consumers in favor of serving other businesses.
The Mountain View company wrote on Twitter that after “four great years, we’ve served our last slice of pie.” In an email to staff, CEO Alex Garden wrote, “With admiration and sadness, we are closing Zume Pizza today.” He said the company will focus instead on its food packaging business and that many jobs were no longer necessary due to the shift.
“Our 2020 strategic plan is weighted to strongly support our growing Zume Source Packaging business and to increase our ability to provide companies around the world with sustainable alternatives to plastic,” Garden wrote.
The company had been packaging its pizzas, which were made in part by humans and in part by robots, in compostable material. In addition to focusing on packaging, Garden wrote Zume will continue to provide delivery and production assistance to the food industry and invest in research and development.
“We have done everything we reasonably can as a company to offer exit packages that will ease the transition of our impacted employees to the next phase in their careers,” Garden wrote.
A spokeswoman said in an email that Zume expects to have 100 job openings soon, for which laid-off employees will be able to apply.
According to notices filed with the California Employment Development Department, the company will permanently terminate 172 jobs at its Mountain View facility and 80 in San Francisco.
The WARN Act notices, which are required by state and federal law whenever significant layoffs take place, said the layoffs will take place on or around March 13, though the date in such notices often reflects the period during which severance is paid, not when a worker actually loses their job.
Chase DiFeliciantonio is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: chase.difeliciantonio@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ChaseDiFelice
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