Seen next to a bakery. Neat.
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In my mum's village they have a pizza vending machine, I tried it for the novelty and I was pleasantly surprised, it was delicious! You could get it cooked or uncooked, it's got some sort of built-in oven in the machine. The guy who makes them restocks every day and rotates the menu every week. There was also a dessert and salad machine next to it so you could get yourself an entire dinner. Also super fresh and bloody good!
I had one of those here in Finland, the price to quality was okay (12€), it was better than frozen but not quite as good as restaurant pizza, but considering it was done in less than 5min was really cool. My biggest consern was that the pizza box had a somewhat open bottom, so it would cool down too much while taking it home. But eating it there at a park would be fun
How so? Having an open bottom seems counter-intuitive.
For some reason I'm just having trouble imagining it.
There is a circular hole on the pizza box, the pizza is on top of a separate square piece of some kind of cardboard. I assume the box is like that for cooking it, as the raw pizza is cooked inside its box.
If you ever worked making pizza, you would understand how easy it would be to automate.
Those exist in many places in the world. I have eaten vending machine pizza in Austria too.
Well I am yet to see one in the UK so as far as my experience goes it's still a novelty.
Yeah, but at least around my parts, those pizzas are mid at best.
I remember the novelty of a chicken ring vending machine at college 35 years ago. Rings instead of nuggets because more dependable on heating, but you'd pay and it would drop the rings into hot oil for an appropriate 3-4 minutes, then dispense in a cup. They were quite passable, and it was nice to have a hot food option next to the cold sandwiches and like cold burgers/burritoes you could heat in the microwave there.
That sounds delightful.