The Pizza Gio is a new takeaway concept that delivers piping-hot pizzas straight from a vending machine to the customer’s mouth. It offers a choice of two “authentic” Italian artisan pizzas that are cooked inside the machine and dispensed in under three minutes.
Pompei’s Pizzeria following two years of development, the Bondi-based restaurant rolled out Australia’s first pizza vending machine earlier this week.
So how does it work? Customers select between two 11-inch pre-prepared pizzas on the Gio’s touch screen menu — margherita or hot salami. They then pay via cash or credit card and wait while the pizza is cooked.
The machine’s inbuilt oven hits temperatures of 300 degrees Celcius, which is just shy of optimum pizza-baking levels. However, the pizzas are actually pre-cooked halfway through in Pompei’s state-of-the-at ovens prior to entering the machine.
After exposing the pizza to around three minutes of extreme heat, it’s sliced and dispensed through a dinky vending slot, ready to eat.
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