Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?

partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh that’s rad! Wonder if the amount of public areas in cities could relate to have more vending machines. The closest city to me doesn’t have a lot of public spaces.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would imagine the requirement would be high foot traffic. Food has an incredibly short shelf life compared to other vending machine contents. That pizza vending machine likely has to be serviced/refilled/cycled every 2 or 3 days. The cupcake ATM would be slightly longer. Most of the cupcake ATMs are attached to the cupcake bakeries, but allow customers to buy from the ATM outside of business hours or when the line of customer is really long inside.

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The pizza vending machine is in a hotel a block away from a larger physical location by for the same company. So similar arrangement. Probably easy for them to maintain

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Probably easy for them to maintain

        Agreed. I made the maintenance comment as to why pizza vending machines aren’t more widespread.

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• GottaKnowYourCHKN@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is at the Hyatt, ain’t it?

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s the wait time for the pizza to bake?

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    About 4 min. There’s a countdown on the screen after you pay and your order is being prepared.

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