Posted on 02/11/2022 9:52:13 AM PST by mylife
These days pizza can arrive by car, delivery bot and even drone. Now you can also get a piping hot pie from a vending machine.
What's happening: PizzaForno, a Toronto-based company, is rolling out its automated pizza vending machines across North America, including in Michigan and other U.S. locations. For $10 to $13, they can serve up a hot, 12-inch pizza in under three minutes.
How it works: The pizza is fresh, not frozen, and made by humans but served by a robot.
Assembled at a regional commissary "with hand-stretched crusts" and "locally sourced ingredients," the uncooked pizzas are loaded into the refrigerated section of PizzaForno’s 65-square-foot automated oven. The customer chooses a pizza from the menu, then behind the scenes a robotic arm transfers the selected pizza to the oven. Once baked, it's placed in a box, which emerges from a slot in the storefront like money from an ATM. Each vending machine holds 70 pizzas, which have a three-day shelf life. Workers restock the machine with fresh pizzas three times a week. I selected a $12 pepperoni pizza the other night from a PizzaForno machine in Ann Arbor, near the University of Michigan campus.
It worked exactly as described, and the pizza looked and smelled delicious. The dough was limp, though, and the flavors were lacking. Good in a pinch, maybe. But why didn't the robot slice the pizza? It turns out there's a slot in the wall to grab a single-serve, biodegradable knife, but I didn't notice it. Not exactly customer-friendly.
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Emily, can I get 2 slices of sausage and pepperoni?
You want hot pepper flakes on it?
Yes, thank you dear..
Chef Boyardee is good enough for me! I do have to cut my own pineapple slices, though.
I can drive 5 minutes down the road to Panatieri’s and have a choice of a couple dozen different kinds of slices.
Less than $10, too.
Best pizza in the Galaxy.
Do they still make Chef Boyardee pizza kits?
.5 mi for me, many kinds of slices < $4 for 2 loaded
ooooohhh those were so good!
And so much fun to make, as kids.
better than this BS LOL
Apparently yes. When I was very young we actually ate them. That was when you could put sliced mastodon on the top...
Emily always has briar hill (a very regional thing), and sausage/ peperoni
Sadly, yes they do.
:)
Yes, they are just never on the shelf. Sold out or supply chain issues, take your guess.
As a matter of fact, yes. They were big when Mom bought a kit when we were kids. When you’re ten, well, hey......it’s PIZZA!
I found a pie vending machine outside of “Pie Snob” on North 16th Street in Phoenix. Their pie is good, but this way, no waiting, and no worrying about whether they are open. I will have to try it.
Nope, I still like humans.
If you have ever been in an airport starving with only 15 mins to make your connecting flight this would be a Godsend.
The look on that guy’s face. lol
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