I had one of those here in Finland, the price to quality was okay (12€), it was better than frozen but not quite as good as restaurant pizza, but considering it was done in less than 5min was really cool. My biggest consern was that the pizza box had a somewhat open bottom, so it would cool down too much while taking it home. But eating it there at a park would be fun

If you ever worked making pizza, you would understand how easy it would be to automate.

Those exist in many places in the world. I have eaten vending machine pizza in Austria too.

I remember the novelty of a chicken ring vending machine at college 35 years ago. Rings instead of nuggets because more dependable on heating, but you'd pay and it would drop the rings into hot oil for an appropriate 3-4 minutes, then dispense in a cup. They were quite passable, and it was nice to have a hot food option next to the cold sandwiches and like cold burgers/burritoes you could heat in the microwave there.

That sounds delightful.

The French are famous for protesting

Machines taking over jobs, maybe it was too expensive, maybe kids fukcing around.

Could have been smooth-brained, but someone wasted some time there.

That the same kind of damage i see on my local metro when machines stop working and dont' get fixed for a week.

There's a part of me that kind of wishes my town had surveillance akin to China's that is effective in preventing this kind of petty crime. I'm jealous of how clean Chinese cities are comparatively.

There's also a part of me that is well aware I sometimes just run red lights on my scooter at 5AM when there are no cars around, or sometimes forget a doggie bag when I'm out walking the pups, and then I'm well aware it would be used against me too and no system is perfect.

Looks like from cleaning

The nom jabbar

Why do we even HAVE this orphan crushing pain machine?

No, wait, yes, let's KEEP the pain machine. :)

Ok this should be top comment.

And the make of the machine missed a real opportunity.

I got one in France, at my local mart. And like one of these bread machine for every bakery in town.

an automatic baguette checkout

Because of course they do. That's delightful and a good idea. lol

That sounds awesome and fun except I'd be concerned about them staying okay - have to be careful buying fresh to not get dead ones.

I'm sure they must've worked it out sufficiently, but it'd be a worry for me. heh

Congrats for using the correct "pain au chocolat" and not the evil "chocolatine" some sick people have invented.

According to their website, it's two types of baguettes (traditional and regular). The one that looks bigger is probably the traditional, which is typically shorter and sometimes a bit thicker.

Actually you don't need to buy the entire machine to have a baguette out of those

Dunno where you're at but Trader Joe's sells these half-baked breads. You bring it home, pop it in the oven for maybe 15m, and you have a nice loaf of bread, freshly baked. It scratches the itch.

The hole to the right of the selection buttons, in the center of the machine.

I'm guessing that square in the middle is a slot.

This is France were talking about, even the shittiest last remaining supermarket baguette is still crunchier then any you can find outside the country.

That vending machine either keeps them perfect or is only a tourist trap.