Pizza Vending Machines: They Exist, But Would You Use Them?

There's nothing like a piping hot pizza (well, except when it's a piping hot pizza that burns the roof of your mouth). But somehow piping hot pizza that comes from a vending machine doesn't quite have the same appeal. Pizza vending machines may be nothing new but they have morphed from serving pre-made, frozen pizzas to made-to-order pies (well, sort of). For example, the Let's Pizza machine kneads dough and adds sauce and toppings before baking.

Pizzametry offers a similar product, and the company is trying to differentiate itself from frozen pizza brands. The website claims:

The pizza is neither oily nor soggy. Chemicals are not needed to make the dough rise better, as they are in some frozen pizzas, because this is the real thing: dough made with yeast.

While the customer waits the few minutes for the "fresh" pizza to bake, the Pizzametry machine has a built-in TV that "blares entertainment and ads," lest the customer get bored. The pizza blog Slice thinks this short attention span entertainment is "kinda lame." Point taken, Slice, but we'll even dare to get a step farther -- isn't the whole notion of a pizza vending machine kinda lame?

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Comments

[cashhhh]

10:22 AM on 10/07/2011

Isn't this exactly how frozen pizza's are made?

[jalaroc]

10:31 PM on 10/06/2011

tried one at a bus station a few years back. Problem was that it didn't cook the pizza all the way and while the top layer of cheese was melted, the bottom layer was raw.

[bcwms1963]

06:13 PM on 10/06/2011

Right location along with price point would be great...Jail waiting rooms, Hospital, DMV(LOL)..wonder what start up cost is for machine...

[morality for all parties]

02:49 PM on 10/06/2011

And there goes the jobs, shipping them off to China.

[Karl Wilder]

02:45 PM on 10/06/2011

It looks awful. I'll pass.

[destroythegreedy]

02:25 PM on 10/06/2011

All the teenagers are about to lose their job thanks to this!! Yay more crime!!!

[morality for all parties]

02:48 PM on 10/06/2011

Very true. F&F

[davidl7082]

01:52 PM on 10/06/2011

Call it an Ipizza and sell it to Apple.

[El Chingaso]

01:45 PM on 10/06/2011

Probably need a Zantac machine right next to it. Americans and their little fascinations with machine-made food...as the real thing. Sad. So very sad.

[Debbe Lewis]

01:10 PM on 10/06/2011

I saw this on one of the how-it's-made cable shows; they showed the device from factory assembly through the machine doing its thing. I'd try one, for sure. The Japanese have an incredible array of machines that vend all sorts of things; I wish there were more of them here in the States.

[Keeee mmmm]

01:02 PM on 10/06/2011

Another machine taking a jobs away. Gotta love that. Hope it fails miserable.

[thadea]

12:58 PM on 10/06/2011

fresh ingredients are preferred...

[sonyfan13]

12:47 PM on 10/06/2011

Wow, a vending machine that makes pizza! I can see how this is newsworthy, despite the fact that I've heard of and even SEEN these machines about a year ago.

[adamben]

12:18 PM on 10/06/2011

does the machine through the dough up into the air?

[sacmom3]

12:14 PM on 10/06/2011

There's ok pizza, good pizza, and better pizza. There is no such thing as bad pizza.

[rltomkinson]

12:20 PM on 10/06/2011

Yes there is. My parents used to go to a pizza shop in Kensington, MD that had truly horrible pizza.

[sacmom3]

02:00 PM on 10/06/2011

lol

[Karl Wilder]

02:44 PM on 10/06/2011

Yes there is. Dominoes, Papa John's and doubtless other chains or small purveyors make horrid pizza.

[JScott]

11:25 AM on 10/06/2011

Well they do have some machines that make pancakes at some Holiday Inn Express breakfast bars-it's ok I guess-you press a button and a few minutes later out pops 2 pancakes into your plate.