Pizza Vending Machines Partner With C-Stores

Pizza Touch is testing its vending machines in some Florida Mobil Marts.

September 23, 2016

TAMPA BAY, Fla. – What could be more convenient than pizza delivered? Perhaps, pizza from a vending machine located at a convenience store, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Vending machines dispensing pizza have been slowly breaking into the U.S. market, with one company starting tests of its product at Florida convenience stores.

Pizza Touch has a vending machine in a Lakeland, Fla., Mobil Mart, and two others in Orlando. Soon, the company will place 100 pizza vending machines at convenience stores and other locations throughout Florida.

“First, it's something new in the United States,” said Gisella Sandra with Pizza Touch. “Second, people here have a business lifestyle. They don't have time to stop and eat. To have a hot pizza ready to go in two minutes, that's a great thing.” Currently, Pizza Touch machines dispense cheese, mushroom-and-pepper and margherita pizzas in a personal size on white cardboard.

Pizza Touch choose Florida to debut its vending machines because of its attraction for tourists. “But the general reason is that Florida is a very rapidly growing state,” said Steven Kirn, executive director of the retail education and research center at the University of Florida. “It's a reasonably good mirror of the population. Demographically, it's a pretty good place to try stuff out.”

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