Posted on 04/04/2014 3:55:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It seems the non-packaged food vending machine trend is not slowing, not one bit. We've all heard of cupcake vending machines. And of course, there was the rise and fall and resurrection of Burritobox. And now we hear word of Let's Pizza, a pizza vending machine. Because, of course there would be a pizza vending machine. You don't want a dystopian future with no pizza, do you?? Alright then.
For now, Let's Pizza is only operating in the UK and Italy, but there have been rumors for years that the machines will debut in the U.S. any minute.
Invented by Italian entrepreneur Claudio Torghele, the machine makes pizza in about 2.5 minutes. The pizza is made from scratch - as in, the dough is mixed, the pizza topped, etc. It can make around 100 pizzas before the machine needs to be refilled.
Of course, the prospect of pizza vending machines shouldn't be all that thrilling to residents of L.A., seeing as we already have caviar vending machines.
See below for the vaguely creepy video about how Let's Pizza machines work.
OK, this will hold us for a few years until we all have 3D printers at home with food-protein cartridges which allow us to download pizzas from Netfood™.
Interesting concept...
Two very important things that are unknown...
Quality and cost...
The machine looks very expensive...Believe or not a decent new snack vending machine can run as much as $ 3.5 K to $5 K...pretty tough to make that back selling $.65 bags of chips...
This Machine probably runs over $10,000... ROI will be a while !!!
Of course the taste is the most important element...
You might get someone to buy the first time for the novelty of it...if the pizza tastes like crap...No repeat sales...
Considering I can drive a mile down to road to buy a $5.00 freshly made pepperoni pizza from Little Caesar...
Now with more “MOLECULES*
At 2am?
Lobby of college dorm building, highway rest stop, rest area of a factory in the middle of nowhere. People will grab a pizza from the machine rather than go out into the parking lot and get in their cars, unless the pizza is horrible.
If minimum wage goes up, look for a bunch of these, along with cheaper versions that just grab a Hot Pocket or burrito from the internal freezer, microwave it, and dump it to the exit slot.
There is a small market in this country for the type of vending machine...
A vend operator who services a factory in BFE will put a frozen food machine in before putting in that monster of a machine..especially if the frozen food machine is half the price of Let's Pizza machine
I can tell you from experience that ALL vend operators ONLY put perishable food type machines only when they have no other choice to get the whole business...
I have a inkling that most college campuses have all night pizza delivery places near by...
The Evolution Of Pizza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVX0tKmjQN8
Good video about the origins and history of pizza. 2.2 minutes long.
Next time you are in Seattle and want a really good pizza hit up a Zeek’s Pizza.
http://www.zeekspizza.com/
I miss my great uncle Meo. Hand tossed, real cheese and real ingredients. Those were the good old pizza days.
I ca still smell that fragrance.
Has anyone ever predicted “a big thing?”
Except for the inventor of course. I imagine the guy who invented the Pet Rock just KNEW he had a golden idea.
No it wouldn't. Vending machines don't call in sick, show up late, file petty grievances and spit in people's pizzas, etc.
That machine and ATM’s will be blamed for all the unemployment during His Arrogance’s reign.
20 years ago, a fly-by-night outfit, Magnum something or other was pulling a pizza vending machine scam. Would fly you to Florida to check out their machines. After a 10 grand investment you found you got junk. Even advertised in the WSJ.
They understand that under the progressive regimes to come, those are gonna be $15/hr workers.
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Not to mention the tacked on Obamacare costs....
The machine is designed and made in Italy, with probably the same dependability of 1971 Fiat Spider
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