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The idea of a pizza vending machine doesn’t sound half bad, but setting up one in Italy, where they practically
invented pizza? Now that’s a recipe for disaster.
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One of Rome’s first automatic pizza dispensers, “Mr. Go Pizza,” was recently installed in Piazza Bologna. In three minutes, it cooks four different types of pizza costing from about $5.40 to $7.20 (4.50 to 6 Euros). After the machine kneads the dough and adds toppings, customers can watch their pie cook behind a small glass window.
Locals are not impressed, to say the least. On Thursday, Reuters reported that customer reviews ranged from “acceptable if you’re in a hurry” to outright horror.
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Here at
The A.V. Club, we’re generally pretty skeptical of the latest poorly dancing, pumpkin-carving, wordlessly screaming developments in the field of robotics. That said, a newly unveiled pizza vending machine fills us with a sense of optimism for the future of our species that, unfortunately, doesn’t seem to be shared by its first customers in Rome, Italy.
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The Mr. Go Pizza machine is a marvel of modern engineering. After a customer selects one of its varieties, which range in price from €4.50 to €6, the good Signore Pizza kneads, seasons, tops, and cooks a fresh pizza in three minutes. The whole process is visible through a little window. It’s great.