Pizza Vending Machine. To be or not to be...a business?

[Daniel.Montblanc]

Hi everyone,
I'm very interested in this idea but I am wondering if Let's Pizza concept ( there is an Italian company who invent it and provide the whole technology ) will work in England. I couldn't find too much information about it...On youtube is a short clip about a pizza vending machine in London but that's all. Also two articles which I found on web...I am curious what do you think. This could be a business? It can be interesting for the British market ? Could be possible to place a vending machine in a shopping centre ? Any ideas, opinions, comments, regarding will help. Thanks

 

[Scalloway]

I've just had a quick google on the subject. There is a Youtube video from 2012 and a Daily Mail article from 2014. The top site on Google is this.

http://www.uniquepizza.co.uk/

If you are the owner of this website, one of the following things may be occurring:

• You have not put any content on your website.
• Your provider has suspended this page.

All of which suggests to me that it has been tried and hasn't worked. It might work though if you can figure out why it failed before.

 

[Daniel.Montblanc]

Thanks a lot buddy. That was my impression too...Bit hard to find why hasn't worked as its almost impossible to find any other details on google...but i will do my best. Thank you !

 

[Newchodge]

Could it be that there are so many pizza shops everywhere that there is no market.

 

[Daniel.Montblanc]

Yes, Cyndy, true...could it be...On the other hand, hard to believe that those who tried before didn't prospect the market in advance and place the vending machines in some strategic spots where safe, avoid the concurrence and so on...

 

[Newchodge]

In the 1970's I worked in the Netherlands. They had street vending machines that produced frites. With Mayonnaise. They never lasted.

 

[DebbS]

France has vending machines for their baguettes and a few weeks ago we did see some for eggs and potatoes. Not quite the same food, I know and they tended to be in smaller villages and towns.

 

[Newchodge]

Fresh, presumably, not cooked?

France has vending machines for their baguettes and a few weeks ago we did see some for eggs and potatoes. Not quite the same food, I know and they tended to be in smaller villages and towns.

 

[DebbS]

The baguettes were cooked, the vending machines we saw said they were stocked twice a day. The eggs and potatoes were fresh and not cooked.

 

[LPB 123]

These type of vending machines, including burgers, fries, chicken etc are very popular in Amsterdam, for obvious reasons. However I don't think it'd work very well in the UK.

 

[Daniel.Montblanc]

I am the only one who thinking that - in a way or in other - this is the future? Vending machines, new technologies, with fresh food and soft drinks, and snacks everywhere -: ) However, Yellow, please, can you let me know your opinion? I mean why do you reckon that I'll not work very well in the UK ? As far as i know British people loves pizza ...First, i found the idea very exciting. Fresh pizza, new technology, you are able to see the entire process, not so expensive etc. ...but now I am starting to have doubts...Thank you all for your comments

 

[Mitch3473]

I remember years ago there were some chip vending machines about but didn't seem to last very long. Would you buy a pizza from a vending machine when you dont know how long the ingredients have been in the warm machine.

 

[digthecat]

Look at FEBO's model (Dutch Company)... They have a vending machine style offering or you can go to traditional counter, like McDonald's.

 

[ChristineJoy33]

in my very own opinion, I am not sure if this kind of business is stable or can meet the demands of the new generation. I admit I am impressed with the idea of pizza vending machine and its new to me, but if I put my shoe in one of the customers in your future business, I will just actually try but not really sure if will come back for more. Ideally speaking, I love pizza but I prefer to buy in a fancy and already established pizza maker/ counter. I want to try new but not really something like this because I don't want to jeopardize the taste and freshness of the ingredients of the pizza that I'm gonna buy.

 

[Riccardo Garniga]

I was promoting Let's Pizza business in UK, unfortunately right in the middle of the product's launch the Italian company closed down. Anyone interested in alternative machines can view I will be more than happy to answer to all questions.

 

[claire pagani]

I was promoting Let's Pizza business in UK, unfortunately right in the middle of the product's launch the Italian company closed down. Anyone interested in alternative machines can view I will be more than happy to answer to all questions.

Hi Riccardo, thanks for offering members advice about this. Could I chat with you more about it?

 

[GURUCLOUD]

I saw one of these in Paris last week although didn't try it as had pizza from a 'real' establishment an hour before.

FYI anyone visiting Paris and likes Neapolitan pizza then check out Dalmata (dalmata.co) fantastic

 

[Alex - A2 Hosting]

Very interesting concept, hadn't heard of it before. If the operations closed down, is it possible for you to find out who ran it and try get some details as to why it failed? If you are able to learn from their mistakes, maybe you'll have a shot at this.

That being said, when I get pizza I am mostly ordering it in from the comfort of home. Maybe I would try it as an 'on the way back home' type deal but unless it was really good, I'd probably keep ordering in personally.

 

[AlexMDS]

Im not sure what i would think about getting food like this from a machine

 

[DG web consultancy]

I like the idea of it as an end user. Expect it'd be at least as good as supermarket pizza, most of which is likely already manufactured using a similar kind of process as the machine.

Somewhere like an airport or train station where high rent normally drives up running costs I see could potentially work well if can provide hot food to people around the clock during odd times when they want quick easy access to something. There's also obviously a relatively small footprint and it's cheaper to run since less hours needed to run.