Fresh pizza vending machine delivered to the US

NBC News ^ | June 14, 2012 | Devin Coldewey

[2ndDivisionVet]

Late-night cravings for pizza may soon be satisfied not by all-night delivery, but by this huge vending machine. Invented by Italians and just now arriving on our fair shores, the Let's Pizza machine actually creates the pizza more or less from scratch, and then bakes it as you watch. The future is here, and it's a bit carb-heavy.

Unlike the frozen and reheated affairs you're likely to find at a 7-11, this pizza is actually created when you order it, from "fresh" ingredients. The dough is mixed and flattened, the sauce spread, the cheese and toppings sprinkled. Some items are no refrigerated, no doubt, but nothing is frozen or pre-prepared. It's thin-crust, since it has to be fully baked in just a minute and a half. Each machine has enough ingredients for 200 pizzas, and offers four variations.

Here's an entertaining video of the Let's Pizza machine being demonstrated by an overdubbed model:

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They've found enough success in the old country that the machines are finally coming stateside. They'll soon be found at "malls, airports, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, universities, gas stations, bus stations, etc,"(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

[central_va]

They tell me there is some kind of vending machine in that picture.

[logic101.net]

Cooked in a minute and a half? What temp do they use, 5000 degrees?

[driftdiver]

Mmmm tasty

[COBOL2Java]

Yeah, I can’t find it either. All I see is “Let’s”...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Subway cooks a foot long in about a minute and a half in their machines. Probably similar.

[bramps]

Is that michelle on the right about to shut them down?

[Billthedrill]

Robo-pizza. I know who's behind the whole thing. Bender! If you think your customer base is gonna look like the models in this thing, you're smoking graphite. I'll tell you what they're gonna look like. Strung-out overweight WOW nerds coming up for air at 3 AM. That's what they're gonna look like.

So much for your dreams of empire, bud... :-(

[Antihero101607]

A crude pizza replicator, but still no holo-deck.

[posterchild]

Just on a whim I typed ‘wow nerd’ into a search engine (because I had no idea what that is) and actually got back what might be meaningful results.

[whitedog57]

I am still looking at ‘Let’s”

[mrsmith]

Hmm...

Those attractive young ladies could not stand so closely in front of a real “fresh” French pizza machine...

[SAJ]

No offense, m'FRiend, but heating already-baked bread is both a different AND a considerably longer process than baking a raw-dough pizza. Feel free to check with any of FR's resident chefs concerning this point.

Possible that the dough in this machine is "half-baked", a la the sundry pizza companies who promote 'finishing the pizza at home'. Possible. However, even if so, you still will end up with a product that is to a pizza what McDonald's is to a hamburger.

If you're OK with that, great.

[SAJ]

Smoking graphite? Well, I might, but it is a B*TCH to keep it lit. Really a pain.

:^)

[EEGator]

[morphing libertarian]

At the movies now I’m seeing soda vending machines with ice dispensers and can make multiple flavor combos. Refills for a $1 and free ice refills.

They have had ice cream machines for quite awhile and I wondering if they do popcorn a lot of jobs will disappear.

[workerbee]

Hawkeye: We're not asking for a jukebox or a pizza oven.
Captain Sloan: Oh, those I can let you have.
Henry: No kidding! Hey, those would be great on movie nights. You got any pizza requisition forms?
Captain Sloan: Just use the standard S stroke 1798 and write in "Pizza" where it says "Machine Gun".

[RckyRaCoCo]

A favorite...that and Col. Flagg.

[Waywardson]

I want one... and a pizza machine would be nice too.

[Hardraade]

There’s a little sun on the inside. And a couple of imps to do the sprinkling.