APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING PIZZA

PURPOSE: An apparatus for making pizza is provided to cleanly make pizza from fresh thin slice of bread in resemblance with the method making pizza in hand. CONSTITUTION: Preheated pizza crust is deposited on the plates each of which is then moveable between an innermost radial position and an outermost radial position. An apparatus for making pizza consists of; a plurality of canisters (26) containing fresh dough stored in the housing (200); a press plate (166) for receiving the slice of dough in the housing(100) and including a first plate and a second plate that selectively move into engagement with each other to define an internal chamber therebetween to press flat and preheat the slice of dough; a cutting blade(102) cable of moving between an upper limit position and a lower limit position to cut a slice of dough from one of the plurality of canisters (26) in the housing(100); a rotary index table station(20) including a plurality of plates (222, 224, 226), with each of the plates being rotatable about a central axis of the rotary index table station (20) in the housing(100).