Buying a fresh, ready-to-eat pizza will soon be as easy as grabbing a bag of chips from a vending machine thanks to a California company. The El Segundo-based company Piestro is creating a pizza vending machine, according to KTLA.
The machine can create a pizza from start to finish in just about three minutes. Customers are able to make selections on the crust and the type of toppings they want such as Margherita, pepperoni, and supreme. After a 2-minute bake, the pizza is cut, boxed, and ready to eat.
Piestro's pizzas are all made by robotics and they even designed a special pizza box so that the robotic arms can easily unfold and close it up. When the pizza is ready, customers retrieve it from a locker under the machine. The box also doubles as a tray to eat the pizza on.
KTLA spoke with Piestro CEO Massimo Noja De Marco: "I fell in love with pizza when I was a little kid. I’m 7th generation in hospitality, my mom was a very talented chef back in Milan."
The system already has nearly 5,000 pre-orders and the $100,000 machine will likely be rented to buyers. “You can have it at an airport, at your school, at your college, at the bottom of your high-rise building,” said De Marco.
Instead of being a pizza brand on its own, Piestro plans to sell or rent the machines to other brands who will use them to sell their pizza in more places.