Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 5 days agoOh 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.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 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.
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
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Agreed. I made the maintenance comment as to why pizza vending machines aren’t more widespread.