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In Italy, A Vending Machine Makes the Pizza (nytimes.com)
27 points by ojbyrne on March 15, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments



Although it's somewhat less complex, similar vending machines that make poutine (a French-Canadian dish that's basically fries with gravy and cheese curds) have been around for a while in Montreal.

In thee machines, it starts with pre-cut fries. You see them dumped into some oil, fried for a bit, then dumped into the container. Cheese curds are then dropped on the pile, and it's finally shot with a bunch of gravy. All-in, it takes about four minutes, and it's pretty good poutine (if you like that stuff).


Who doesn't like poutine??


Is there a picture of the pizza? I'm curious to actually see it.


Wait a second.

You're in Italy and you're going to a vending machine for pizza?!


That would work well in Japan... There's already the restaurants/fast food where you choose the food on a vending machine get a ticket and give it to the kitchen staff... That would be a natural evolution of that...


Next thing you know, they'll be able to miniaturize and "cheaperize" still further and anyone will be able to buy one for home use. And they'll sell bags of all the ingredients you need.


Er... they've already done this, it's called microwavable pizza. You take the bag of ingredients (AKA frozen pizza) and insert said ingredients into the miniaturized oven and cook for 3-5 minutes.


I know this, but I'm thinking the freshly baked pizza with fresh ingredients must taste fresher than a microwaveable frozen pizza...

edit: Now that I think about it, they even have rising-crust frozen pizza. And we even eat some sometimes. I don't know what I was thinking!


Yeah, never try cooking a rising-crust frozen pizza in a microwave... really doesn't work. However, I bet these machines would reap a fortune in college dorms as an alternative to frozen crap.


(I think that might have been the joke...)


Wouldn't this sell way better on a college campus? Put it near the computer lab.


I love it! It's a great idea, and a scalable business.




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