Thoughts about food and technology by computer geeks who love to cook
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October 27, 2006
One of the few things I’ve been craving regularly since being on the South Beach Diet is pizza. Not just any pizza, of course: genuine New York-style, foldable, greasy pepperoni pizza is my personal favorite. Still, in an emergency, something is better than nothing. If only a local business cared enough about my cravings to install a
machine. This vending machine holds up to 102 individual (9 inch) pizzas, in three varieties, any of which can be ordered, heated in a built-in high-temperature oven (not a microwave!), and served in less than two minutes. (Suggested retail price per pizza: $5.)
Now, if pizza from a vending machine sounds about as lame as you can get, consider this odd fact: the machines are manufactured in Torino, Italy—a place where, one would hope, pizza-making expertise is plentiful. Whether or not that’s reflected in the taste of the final product, I can only speculate.
I don’t know how much it costs to buy one of these machines, nor whether they’ve actually been deployed anywhere in the United States. But I can imagine these machines doing brisk business in college dorms and in the break rooms of high-tech companies where programmers code around the clock and subsist on junk food and Mountain Dew.
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Joan said:
Hello, It’s posible to send the machine to spain? what is the price of the machine? and the shipping price? It can be used in EURO (€) money??
Thank you very much
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Joan: I’m afraid I don’t know anything more about these machines than what I read on the Wonder Pizza Web site. I suggest contacting the manufacturer for more information.
NAVROZE SETHNA said:
Hello there.Could you plaese tell me the cost of one of these machines?
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Navroze: As I said in the article, I don’t know how much they cost. You’ll have to get in touch with the manufacturer to learn about pricing.
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