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The Future Of Vending Machines: Freshly Made Pizza, Do-It-Yourself Muffins
WBBM-AM ^ | April 14, 2016 | Vince Gerasole

Posted on 04/23/2016 7:58:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Vending machines and food might conjure up some negative images:

-Shaking the machine when your potato chips get stuck.

-Not the best options for dining.

CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole reports that’s all changing. He paid a visit to a vending machine trade show in Chicago.

How’s this for a treat? A TCBY yogurt with Oreo crumbs. It starts with a touch screen where you choose sizes, flavors and toppings. No, an army of oompa loompas isn’t inside the big box. It’s a robotic assembly line.

Meanwhile, Matty Castellano is selling fresh pizza from a vending machine....

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Food
KEYWORDS: 2db; 2ndshift; eveningshift
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21 posted on 04/23/2016 8:36:43 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmm- fewer minimum wage jobs - keep pushing for $15 an hour and pricing yourselves out of the market....


22 posted on 04/23/2016 8:41:12 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: dp0622

Ping


23 posted on 04/23/2016 8:41:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Jonty30

It doesn’t cost that much... The people that owned my house prior to me converted the garage... I turned it into a theater... Projector cost 1500... Screen cost 250 and I already had a DTS stereo with Klipsch 5.1 speaker set-up... threw in a couple recliners and I never go to the movies anymore...


24 posted on 04/23/2016 8:48:36 PM PDT by mugsaway
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I have a 400 dollar laptop and I’ve stopped going to the movies :)

amazon prime, Netflix.

I was walking out of so many left wing movies after 20 minutes that I stopped going


25 posted on 04/23/2016 8:49:58 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: mugsaway

I know you can get a pretty decent set up for far less. A 4k player, nice screen, and a surround system and a comfortable chair can all be had for under $5 grand, but a lot of people like the movie experience and pay a lot to have it.


26 posted on 04/23/2016 8:50:38 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

true...


27 posted on 04/23/2016 8:52:12 PM PDT by mugsaway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone know of any publicly-traded vending machine companies? Seems like the new minimum wage laws are creating a great opportunity to invest.


28 posted on 04/23/2016 9:54:59 PM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think about the automated kitchens, particularly the vending machine scenario, and I just think “cockroach heaven.” A crumb here, a grease splatter there....


29 posted on 04/23/2016 10:11:47 PM PDT by Trod Upon (To be labelled "far-right" by modern journalists, one need do no more than NOT be far-left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But...but...we need more immigrants and $15/hr minimum wage!


30 posted on 04/24/2016 1:13:32 AM PDT by montag813
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To: mugsaway

Thirty years ago I used a vending machine in a state park that would not just drop a can of beefaroni, but it would be hot - and instead of straws it had a holder full of spoons. Brilliant!


31 posted on 04/24/2016 4:36:50 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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