Pizza lovers are going to enjoy this one. Basil Street is piloting pizza making vending machines in the United States. The machine can produce a 10-inch Italian style, thin crust pizza in just three minutes with fresh ingredients. The pizza's quality is said to be comparable to a pizza baked in a high-end brick oven.
Customers get to pick which type of pizza they want. The pizzas range from $6.95 to $11.95. The pizzas are stocked frozen inside and heated using a non-microwave speed oven.
Automated Pizzeria Kitchen Innovation
Basil Street claims to have created a pizza-making vending machine that makes it a contender against a high-end brick oven pizzeria. It boasts the use of comprehensive robotics. Their device uses state of the art technology with the use of complete robotic systems, custom software design, and network operating systems.
It also possesses an impressive digital display using a 42-inch screen that displays videos or advertisements. A unique feature of the contraption is its sophisticated software program. Videos showed various displays depending on the customer as it recognizes age, gender, and weight.
The team has targeted differentiating kiosk development strategies to incorporate designs that maximize customer interaction and ongoing field support operations. Their goal is to enhance customer satisfaction and minimize support costs.
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The Pizza
The California startup promises to provide a delicious, crispy, thin-crust, Italian style pizza every time. Using fresh ingredients for their pizza, they also use flour higher in protein, with lower carbs and less sugar for the dough.
Customers get to choose from variations of four-cheese, pepperoni, and "Pizza of the Month." Prices range from $6.95 to $11.95. The cooking process of the pizza uses a three-element non-microwave speed oven, which the firm engineered themselves.
Deglin Kenealy, the CEO, told Digital Trends that the secret is to have 'direct flat contact with the heating source, rather than held on its side between heating elements like a piece of bread in a toaster, an approach others have tried.'
Basil Street
Basil Street is prepped to change the way people think about vending machine cuisine forever. The firm hopes to disrupt the food market with a new hands-off automation approach to cooking and serving pizza.
Being a team of experienced kiosk developers, installers, and operators, they have worked their way to rapid multifaceted nationwide deployments. Their vending machines are currently going through a pilot program in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Southern California, where the Basil Street headquarters is located.
Basil Street recently closed a $10 million funding round for its collection of pizza vending machines. They will be presenting for a multi-city pilot program rollout launching in the United States this April.
Basil Street is aiming to hit high-volume, high-traffic locations such as airports, military bases, hospitals, college campuses, and even inside existing establishments like supermarkets.
The company said it had received a lot of requests from interested parties who wanted to take part in the pilot program. These associations included corporations, health care facilities, universities, military bases, and sporting arenas nationally.
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