From-frozen to fully cooked in unmanned operation
pizza vending machine
From the DenverPost July 2021
New automated pizza kitchen (APK) comes to Denver.
In Brief
- Completely vended from machine
- Certifications in place (NSF and UL)
- 50 rolling out this years
- 10″ Pizza and no microwave
- Pizza prices range from $12 to $15, purchased with a debit or credit card, Apple Pay, Android and Samsung Pay
- Website
Excerpt:
In 2016, Deglin Kenealy, CEO of Basil Street Pizza, began the process of creating an automated pizza kitchen (APK) in California, with consistency and high-quality pies in mind. It wasn’t until his daughter went off to college that the business became personal.
“I saw this as a huge market. Where you can get a higher quality product, a better price in a much faster time frame, right?,” Kenealy said.
Basil Street Pizza’s automated kitchen in Denver is one of 50 cook-to-order pizza vending machines to roll out in the United States this year. (The company tested the machines in California and Texas in 2020.) The APK’s serve 10-inch, thin-crust pizzas, completely microwave-free.
“We’re not trying to stop you from going to your favorite pizza place,” Kenealy said, “but if you want, really, a delicious pizza in a short amount of time, we feel like we’ve really hit the nail on the head with that.”
Full article From the DenverPost July 2021