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Vending Machine Vends PIZZA!

blog.scifi.com — You can purchase all sorts of things from vending machines these days, from soda and candy to iPods and cell phones. But freshly made pizza? That just doesn't seem to make any sense. How can you make pizza in a vending machine? Has the whole world gone mad?!

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  • hustl3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44late night munchies anyone??
    • asif5th, on 10/12/2007, -19/+11...Talking about coke machines being unhealthy...LOL to this :|
      But now that a pizza machine has been invented, I can finally die a happy man knowing mankind has done such an amazing feat.
    • BenFaist, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50And frats all over america rejoice...
    • oskite, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5This is obviously the way everything should be. All food should come from vending machines. We could even overhall the entire fast food business. I'd be able to get my Big Mac with no pickles and onions made right there on the street! Then again, if business was slow, those ingredients could get pretty disgusting.
    • laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47direct link: http://wonderpizzausa.com/

      "Two operating sections: 1- Refrigeration 2- Ordering / Cooking
      Operational Platform
      Holds 102 pizzas in their own separate & sealed trays
      3 different types of pizza, per machine
      Operator “crisp” control
      Video Command ordering system
      Ordering & Cooking time 90 Seconds average
      Cooks in High Intensity Toaster Oven atmosphere
      Suggested retail price is $5.00 dollars US
      Profit Margin= 60+%"
    • firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8Sorry to say, but I've seen these for a while. Brown had them, and a few other places have them, too.

      And they've existed for several years...
    • bonyicecream, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42My life just won't be complete til I buy a pizza from a vending machine.
    • Chingmiester, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Wonderpizza! The food of the future!
      "***** off I'm eating"
    • imnojezus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I bet it tastes exactly as good as it sounds.
    • betacmag4u, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Do they have a home model?
    • ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Having worked in the high-tech vending machine industry... pizza vending machines been around for more than 5 years. All it does is quick-bake or microwave a frozen pizza. It doesn't actually create one like your local pizza shop.

      But this stuff has been selling poorly by various companies because they all taste like utter crap. Unless you want to wait 2 full minutes for high-school cafeteria pizza for $5-$7. (Trust me results will NOT look anything near like what it claims on that website). Plus the high overhead and energy use by these machines makes it almost impossible for them to lower prices below $5 a pie. Trust me, even after they lowered the price to $3, $2, you would NOT buy it. Its that bad.

      In Japan you can get cooked Gyu-Don (Meat with Rice) that actually tastes pretty good. Like this machine its just microwaved in the vending machine before its popped out.
    • Switch22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I would just assume they have a bunch of frozen ones inside, and it takes a minute and a half to heat up?
    • mathew_bug, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Not late night, but something else...*cough*
    • ElMoselYEE, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"I would just assume they have a bunch of frozen ones inside, and it takes a minute and a half to heat up?"

      no it takes 2 minutes, though i'm not sure in which country 90 seconds is the same as 2 minutes.
    • Schrodinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So apparently the quality is bad...maybe they should put digiorno in it?
    • MrColdheart, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@shrimpcrackers

      The point of them making this is so you can get pizza at places you normally couldnt. So you will eat it if thats your only option.
      and im glad you expained that its probley a machine that cooks frozen pizzas and not a little Italian inside a box rolling dough. Its cool im drunk so ill tone myself down.. any ways the machine would clean up in some places I know in the city... imagine one of these in a mall down in an area thats not close to the food stands.. I bet there are lazy asses out there who would buy one.. HELL I'd buy one too but not cause im a lazy ass but because I smoke bud
    • itchyfeet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Put one of these outside a place where drunk people congregate (a bar or pub) and you'd make a fortune.

      "Whaaaowww.. whasshhat? Peeeetttzzaaa!! Eeeeyeeaarrrgggh wherezamoneego!? *****.. "
    • TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3freshly made and vending machine, don't go together
    • edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A yachting lake nearby had a burger&ships vending machine. It was turned off permanently, and was a nesting place for numerous Unidentifiable Small Rodents.
  • BarryGoneWild, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5these have been around for awhile i first saw one in the salt lake airport in 2004? but its a tombstone machine (yes it was good)
    • SonicAD, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Damn, I literally eat 2 Tombstone pizzas a day (at separate meals though, not that fat :P ) and would kill to have one of those!
    • Chingmiester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ SonicAD
      That probably isn't too good for your health, as each pizza* is about 3 servings and it's 280 calories per serving. That makes 1680 calories a day. Your massive pizza consumption may kill you before you kill to eat a vending pizza.

      * That is considering the pizza is pepperoni. The other various types of Tombstone pizza have more calories than that.
    • chaosium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good? This stuff makes Totino's taste like gourmet.
    • lewikee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@chingmiester

      1680 calories a day isn't bad per say. The average adult should consume 2000 calories a day. Technically, he could be losing weight on that diet. The problem isn't the number of calories as much as in what form the calories are ingested. Mostly saturated fat, that pizza diet is definitely going to deprive your body of the nutrition it needs. So yes, definitely unhealthy, but not because of the calories.
    • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You'd also have to eat nothing else that day. Who wants to have nothing but a 9-inch frozen pizza per day? There are tortuous Weight Watchers diets, but this would be even worse.
    • InfernoZeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Theres been a pizza vending machine near where i live for like 4 years now...
  • Squishead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How fresh can this really be?
  • Wezlanator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32This goes on my "Cool ***** To Put In My Room" list.
  • sonaro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21It's really just a giant microwave with Ellios inside. But what else does one need at 4am with 1 eye open?
    • vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"But what else does one need at 4am with 1 eye open?"

      Sleep perhaps?
  • pants428, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56i'd actually prefer that the pizzas were made by midgets living in the vending machine... but that's just me...
    • ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Who said they are not?
    • celeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I believe the P.C. term would be "Little People"

      In any case, the case should be clear. literally :)
  • conradpaul, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3I ate a pizza from a machine like this in my dorm a couple of years ago. Of course, it was terrible. This isn't new or cool, why is it on the front page? Dugg down as LAME.
    • Chingmiester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13IT made it to the front page because people don't always want to read about new Windows Vista crap, or how much the RIAA sucks. Diggers like weird ***** such as pizza vending machines or Jesus using Wikipedia.
  • EXCellR8, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That's pretty freakin' sweet all things considered. Now if they could only develop a vending machine for steak and mashed potatoes...
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I recall a show demoing some ideas for vending machines. One was a machine designed to dispense fresh hot french fries.

    You don't want to know what the oil looked like after just a couple of hours of use.
    • Franklancer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I remember seeing articles about those in a time magazine years ago, claimed they'd be all the rage at colleges and such across the US, they claimed at the time they had a grease filter to handle that problem, guess they never worked as well as the article claimed...
    • Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3but people at my work having been enjoying them for years. they are all around here in Western Canada.
    • sn0re, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My university had several of those but they always seemed to be broken. I never got to try it my whole time there.
  • funnick, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4I saw an iPod vending machine in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. Who the F would spend that sort of money on a vending machine. What happens if the box gets stuck!?
    • Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Shake for bonus prizes
    • Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13when you shake the ipod vending machine, it emits dancing silhouettes that strangle you to death with mysterious white cords
  • buckeye45, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14now just give me my cocaine vending machine.
  • dvsbastard, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Still doesn't beat the convenience of buying Soiled Japanese Panties on the go...

    http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9880/13gw5.jpg
    • Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'm a bit paranoid by those, I can just picture a sweatshop full of fat guys or something.
    • gotcheaprice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Man, hope the pizza doesn't taste as bad as those used panties I had in Japan
  • nubnub, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Old news
  • jamesgott, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1yeah fun and games until it has the worst roach and rat and ant problem any where! seriously, thats gonna be disgusting in no time!
    • jamesgott, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1yeah. fine. bury me now, but when you get a sausage pizza with extra ants, dont come crying to me.
      what does a pizza in one of those things cost anyway
    • Kronos6948, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I doubt it would be a haven for bugs for 2 reasons...

      One side is a freezer where it's too cold for the bugs, the other side is a toaster oven...too hot for bugs.
    • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've seen ants survive in a freezer.
  • diktator279, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22next will be vending machines that dispense vending machines
  • TheLoneWolf071, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Eh... This is just another method of isolation... lol...
  • osmow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2http://www.digg.com/design/Pizza_Vending_Machine

  • egotripping, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I just wish the pizza dropped so it could reach its maximum flavor potential.
    • thatbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's familiar; where's it from?
    • royalself, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Drop it like it's hot" ?
    • Bmulley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mitch Hedburg
      continued: "If I'm buying a candybar in a store, a lot of times I will drop it just so it will achieve it's maximum flavor potential"
  • DeFex, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10KFC need vending machines, they could chop up the rats, re-conglomerate the parts in to chicken like shapes, batter them and add 11 secret spices. vend food.

    use motion detector to make sure humans are not around
    drop crumbs to attract more rats.
    catch rats with lightning fast robot arm.

    make more food.

    guy would only have to replenish the batter and spices. oil could be rendered from rats as well.
    • markthegoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mmmmmmm kfc rat *tongue hangs out of mouth* stop making me hungry you insensitive clod!
    • LordVan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1that's gross ... do you always have thoughts like that lol
      dugg comment anyway since it's funny ;)
  • radda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's a machine at a movie theater here that does french fries, chicken fingers, and all sorts of food like that.

    Spoiler: there's a microwave inside. This one might have some kinda Quizno's like baker in in though.
    • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's something about going to see a movie and smelling real food coming from a few seats away that I despise. I don't know why, it just bugs me for some reason. I don't need to smell a guy's hot dog while I'm trying to watch a movie.
  • jamez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The correct word is vendors.

    On the record:
    Good grammar and spelling are a turn-on.

    I am very turned off.
    • nerd05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If you get turned on by good grammar I'd hate to see you in English class.
    • laterallateral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh seriously noooo... you're turend off???
      That just makes me TOO sad inside.

      Tip: you may want to look elsewhere for sexual stimulation. I suggest looking up ["porn" -midget] on google.
  • pentomino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to see these at the union at ASU. They didn't last so long; they had a dozen better restaurants to compete with in the building, even if many of them closed very early.
  • caliyankee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20As a born-and-bred New Yorker, I need to express my outrage at this machine. I've seen a lot in my years, and I thought California Pizza Kitchen was an abomination to nature, but whatever substance comes out of this vending machine is NOT pizza. Pizza is an art form. The perfect slice at the perfect time with the perfect company rivals the beauty of the Sistine Chapel. A man can spend his entire life trying to make the perfect Neapolitan pizza; the one like he had when he was a kid and his parents took him to Patsy's and told him about Frank Sinatra for the first time. I'm an Irish boy from Brooklyn, but even I know that pizza is made by a fat Italian guy from the neighborhood who's son you play Little League with. Not a pepsi machine.

    Go ahead bridge & tunnel people, dig me down. But if you've ever had a real slice, fuhgettaboudit...
    • vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Now if only the places in New York could make a pizza as good as in Chicago, THEN you would have a point.
    • CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If every pizza were like NY pizza, then NY pizza would no longer be special. You should be praising this machine for maintaining the value of the perfect slice of NY pizza. :-)

      (or chicago pizza)
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5There is nothing more sad than someone talking about how only THIER neighbood's food, or drink, or whatever, is the true kind. Seriously. Just sad.
    • tobias1482, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0not all of us live in towns where we just got our first Sonic :)
    • zionKing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1broomett, you sound down... if you could only taste the sweet heaven that is my neighborhood's meatball sub then you'd feel much much less jealous ;)
    • cremate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Brooklyn people always have so much to say.
    • mannymix03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1true, its not real pizza. But they have this at the hospital i work..... for a quick bite during your break, its the best they have
    • asantir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You need to try the pizza in Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, just south of La Spezia.
      All freshly picked / killed ingredients, a big jug of red wine and the sun setting over the Mediterranean.

      Beats the pants off anything Chicago or NYC has to offer, sorry.
    • FishPoisonCon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I'm an Irish boy from Brooklyn, but even I know that pizza is made by a fat Italian guy from the neighborhood who's son you play Little League with"

      lol... been away for a while? now the fat italian guy stands around while mexicans make the "authentic italian" pizza.

      "Go ahead bridge & tunnel people.."

      if you're from brooklyn... how exactly do you get into the city? oh ya...
    • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alright alright let me put down this squid ink pizza first...
  • tektalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You're making me crave pizzas real bad...
  • zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You know this pizza tastes like ass.
    • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How do you know what ass tastes like?
  • darthmojado, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1also...what about a vending machines that "vends" other vending machines? huh? just a thought. not my idea but provocative nonetheless.
    • MotionAesthetic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0MAYBE THERS A SMALLER SAFE INSIDE
  • lacreme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I hope it's not buggy.
  • Gerbil, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Go oompa-loompas!
  • Neorio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Coming soon:

    EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES!
    • daylightfades, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0But what if I'm unscannable?
    • IllBeBack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Slathered with melted cheese for an even wider ass. Mmmmmm, cheeeeze.
  • ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The diced bell peppers are a sure clue to this being frozen. And it is almost certainly is loaded with palm oils.
  • weister42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Pizza vending machine + soda vending machine sitting together next to a liquor store = a college student's dream come true.
  • DaSkiDude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I just wonder where the closest one to me is
  • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1A site called SCI FI blog should not be ejaculating in their pants over a vending machine that has been around for YEARS.
  • Supernova36, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There used to be one of these near where I live, the pizza is overpriced, small and not very tasty.
  • insomuchas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Eh! I dont want pizza from a vending machine, I want worn girl's panties like they have in Japan.
  • LavaHot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I love how ABC in Boston will be doing a story on this thing. I wonder how long it will take for someone to call it in as "a suspicious package."
  • deathtom64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1what if they had a vending machine that vended live puppies?

    .....or any animal of your choice!?!?


    but i can dig the pizza vending machine for now..
  • hyprmdrn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Great concept, but I don't think a pizza like that is worth $5.00
  • Shenaniganz08, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This got me thinking about the Taco Bell kiosk that Alex from diggnation was talking about :D
  • smwvc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Not really new. My Dad held a patent for one he came up with in the 1950's. Check it out here:
    http://www.lulen.com/pie-o-matic.html
  • Jezper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw hamburger vending machines in Holland 4 years ago. Disgusting.
    • sunkneed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, the food in the vending walls and machines in Holland are freshly made by people before they are put into their slots. 8 out 10 times the "machine" is connected to a kitchen of a cafe. You just can't beat a warm kroket or kaas-souffle at 4:00 am bar closing time. Except with maybe a fresh gyro, yum!
  • tommycai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1we got a pizza vending machine at work it's been here since about 2003 how is this new??? it also makes ribs, chicken and something else woo hooo what kind of news is this by the way? bury!
  • osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw one of these in the SLC airport the other day, looked delicious (I'm bad at sarcasm).
  • Caruthers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0$5 to $7? For that much money, I can get like 10 of those ***** Tony's pizza's or like 20 of the Kroger brand (grocery store) variety. If it isn't from the local corner pizzeria, it's gonna taste like old cardboard.
  • Yoggy0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This isn't new. I bought pizza from a vendine machine in high school (11 years ago) at a big truck stop while our band was travelling to NYC.
    • riverwind13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0We too had one of these in my High School in 1996 (do I know you?). Compared to the regular school food, they were AWESOME. I doubt I'd eat one now.
  • Trihedralguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would be interested in at least seeing how it is working / how it gets the pizza cooks it...etc....They should have made a few with glass windows. Pretty Neat.
  • AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1@ BenFaist:

    I thought you said 'Fats all over America rejoice.."

    I was sad when I found out I read it wrong. :(
  • RedHerringHack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would use it. Once.
  • Rethcir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I used to work at a pizza joint. Skip the live bees - oregano works just as well.
  • DrZibbs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If there ARE really little people in there I'll pass. Those dwarfs are a bitter sort and are known to tamper with the food of us giants.
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