Adam & Amber’s Blog

I saw a small article that linked to a company website for WonderPizza. The idea behind this vending machine is that it stores frozen pizzas and runs them through a fancy toaster oven before delivering the customer a hot personal pizza. I think the idea behind this machine is very promising and I imagine that it is the start of a trend towards automated prepared food delivery.

I can think of no reason why most fast food chains (and even some national “sit-down” chains) could not be completely automated. Sound far fetched? At one of our local McDonald’s the are already using a robotic beverage system to fill drive-thru drink orders. According to this article and this article (randomly chosen from google) this is part of a larger project done by McDonald’s to go towards completely automating their franchises. This makes perfect sense, if you take a look back in the kitchen of a fast food restaurant (but not too close of a look) you will see that the “cooks” function very much like machines already. In order to maintain quality, speed, and consistency everything is timed, pre-measured, and repetitive. It would not seem too difficult to replace that human with a machine that does the exact same work, in essence turning the restaurant into a giant vending machine.

Point is, I think this pizza machine is just the tip of something that will be very commonplace in the next 10-20 years and could change the way we eat. For me, as long it would improve my lunch options I would be happy.