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It's likely not as cool as Japanese vending coffee, but in the UK there are Starbucks/Costa etc vending machines all over. Do Americans (sorry assuming you are from US) not have those?
Have used a couple of hot coffee vending machines in the US and all of them were absolute garbage.
I don't mind vending machine cappuccino but that's only like half credit as coffee lol
The Tick: Armless bandit... Empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee! It has its price and its price has been paid!
the ones at racetrac are pretty great imo. i get the lightest roast they have (more caffeine) and dump a bunch of sugar and cream into it but it's pretty good black, too
But are those like a hot coffee dispenser, where you grab a cup and put it under a spout, push a button and it pours out a hot drink? Because we do have those in Australia.
But in Japan they have vending machines for canned drinks and cans of soup that are heated.
Australia here, nothing similar here.
But this is like basically every street has a set of these vending machines. They're everywhere.
No, not that I've seen except for at highway rest stops. They have automated coffee vending machines that sells some brown nasty tasting water. Definitely not coffee
As someone from the west coast of The States, I can't say I've ever seen a hot drink vending machine in real life. At least not here where I live.
We used to have them, but I haven't seen them for over a decade now.
If you remember the Terminator 2 movie, the scene where a security guard gets a cup of coffee, those are the kind of dispensers that used to exist.
(The link above shows the scene I'm speaking of. I tried to embed the URL into this comment so the picture itself would display, but I couldn't figure it out.)
Also from the US west, I've seen a bunch of hot vending machines! In several hospitals and schools in different states, a few gas stations. They will have coffee, tea or cocoa selections, a cup pops out and gets filled with fresh brewed coffee. They were usually around 1.50 to 2 dollars a cup, maybe more expensive now though.
Ditto. Also rest stops.