Jet’s Pizza Takes to the Skies: Drone Deliveries Coming to Detroit in 2025!
Jet’s Pizza is doing something right out of the future right to your door. The Michigan-based Jet’s Pizza has partnered with Zipline to offer pizza drones in Metro Detroit, MI, by early 2025, like something right out of the future.
What Is The Zipline Delivery System?
On Friday, the San Francisco-based drone operator Zipline said that the Flynn Group (part of Panera Bread) will begin using the delivery system from select Panera Bread units in Seattle. Jet’s Pizza, meanwhile, is looking to add drone delivery in the chain’s home city of Detroit by 2025.
Zipline says it’s the world’s most extensive autonomous delivery system and has completed 1 million commercial drone deliveries across various industries. Walmart uses the drones for retail deliveries in Africa and Japan. Within the next few years, Zipline expects to serve over 30 million in the U.S. in 10 states.
According to the company website, Zipline‘s next-generation platform can deliver up to 7x as fast as traditional automobile delivery and can complete 10-mile deliveries in about 10 minutes.
Zipline Plan For Detroit
The 400-unit Jet’s Pizza will start using Zipline drones in Detroit. The P2 is capable of delivering two large Detroit-style pizzas with sides. The Zipline company fact sheet is available here.
“Having the best pizza in the world doesn’t matter if it doesn’t arrive fresh from the oven,” said John Jetts, CEO of Jet’s Pizza, in a statement. “Zipline will let us expand our delivery area to bring great, hot food to even more loyal customers.” To read more on the statement from Restaurant Business Online.
Some Questions I Still Have On Drone Pizza Deliveries
- Deliveries During Michigan Weather? We all know the weather here will be challenging. Do we sometimes get all four seasons in one day?
- What happens if the order is wrong? You can’t talk to a drone
- What happens during peak times Holidays and Special Events like The Super Bowl? Will they handle the sheer volume of orders?
- What if the drone gets attacked by a pit bull? It could happen.
- What do you do if, by a strange freak of nature, my pizza comes with Pineapple?
Detroit Is Home To Jet’s Pizza
In 1978, Jet’s Pizza founder Eugene Jetts leased a space in Sterling Heights, MI, that would become Jetts Party Shoppe and Pizzeria, now known as Jet’s Pizza.
Eugene and brother John opened a second store in 1986. In 1985, the Jetts Party Shoppe ditched its original name, dropped a “t,” and became Jet’s Pizza. With dreams to grow the brand Eugene and John started, their cousins Jim and Jeff Galloway joined ownership in 1987. For Jet’s, a lot has changed since opening that first party Shoppe in 1978. The name and the menu, but what will never change is their commitment to quality ingredients. Since day one, Jet’s has used premium mozzarella from Grande Cheese and Mama Jetts’ secret sauce recipe.
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