UPDATE: September 26, 2016 at 4:39 p.m.
The automatic pizza vending machine of your dreams—which first came to life earlier this summer at Ohio University—may soon become prominent across the country. Thanks to one company in Florida, the 'za "ATM" is about to become ubiquitous across the Sunshine state.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that Orlando-based Pizza Touch plans to roll out more than 100 machines in Central Florida alone. The automated pizza maker can churn out personal-size pies in two minutes, accept cash and all credit and debit cards (they are $6 a pop), and offer three types of pizzas: cheese, Margherita, and mushroom-pepper. The target locations for Pizza Touch machines are college campuses, hospitals, hotels, malls, but the brand is also accepting applications from businesses that would like to host one. And after its popularity at the recent "International Pizza Expo," industry professionals expect to see this trend rise exponentially. Only time will tell, though.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: August 5, 2016 at 1:47 p.m.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Customers will soon be able to get pizza from an ATM at one Ohio University.
Xavier University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the first Pizza ATM in North America.
The company, Paline, says the machine will hold 70 pizzas at once. Customers will be able to use a touch screen to pick one of the $10 pizzas, which will be heated for several minutes, placed in a cardboard box and ejected through a slot.
Paline says the pizza dispensers have been in Europe for 14 years. They're typically in small towns, at gas stations or pizzerias.
Xavier's marketing director for auxiliary services, Jennifer Paiotti, tells WCPO-TV that she's a New Yorker but considers the machine-dispensed pizza to be the best she's ever had.
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