Posted on 07/28/2016 12:15:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There's nothing like a fresh baguette, hot out of the oven. And one company has made it as easy and quick to get as a Snickers bar.
Le Bread Xpress has opened vending machines in San Francsico that produce hot and fresh baguettes in seconds. The machines are operating at the new Myriad market in the Castro.
The baguettes rise at a bakery in Burlingame and are slighty baked. The baking process finishes in the vending machine. Operators say the machine is a hit in France.
"In a mall next to transportation, people come back from work, get their fresh baguette and get home," says Anthony Fountaine, of Le Bread Xpress.
A baguette costs $4.25 and comes out in about 20 seconds. Le Bread Xpress is hoping to expand operations around the Bay Area. In addition to France, it currently has machines in Russia, the U.K. and China.
I would love to have something like that nearby. The closet bakery is 50 miles from my house. I’m talking about a real bakery, not corporate bread from the local grocery store oven that just reheats premade dough.
I owned a vending machine route with lots of machines, candy, soda, video games.
Those were a B#TCH to fix, so I can only imagine how expensive or difficult it will be to get one of theses up and going if it breaks down, and vending machines ALWAYS break down, I dont care what year it is or how new and cutting edge they are
You could make a lot of bread from these machines.
Where is my scungilli vending machine?!?!
You should be arrested for that pun.
Come and get me, coppers!
Plus the shelf life of a piece of bread is a day, maybe two. Maybe longer if wrapped in plastic.
It also doubles as a bread crumb vending machine.
If I wanted to buy wooden crappy bread, i would just whittle something out of a fence post.
Is this news? I understand faguettes have been sold there for a while now.
It is widely accepted that the gheys have lots of disposable income.
I should invent something to sell to gullible homos, like an AIDS warmer. It warms your AIDS.
Didn’t even think about THAT.
Forget about it.
The no 1 job of most vending machine companies is to get rich and get out before too many complaints are brought against them.
There are 3 or 4 dependable machine brands.
I would NEVER touch food machines. That’s why there’s so many on sale used.
Then what would keep stray dogs out of your yard?
Then what would keep stray dogs out of your yard?
It is not marketed to normal humans.
“Put the Cheetos back or else”
who knew that Glenn Beck patronized vending machines.
My wife and kids just moved to France, (from San Francisco) I asked my son the best part of the new house, he said the bakery about 4 doors down the street.
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