The Pizza ATM is being installed in the lobby of Fenwick Place just outside Xavier University’s Hoff Dining Hall and will be stocked with 70 pizzas at a time.
Here’s how the Pizza ATM will work:
- Cooks prepare a vegan dough and let it rise for two days.
- The dough is kneaded, flattened into 12-inch round crusts and partially baked.
- Vegan tomato sauce is made in-house, and all the toppings are prepped in the dining hall too.
- Cooks top the crusts with eight varieties of toppings and load them into the refrigerated section of the ATM.
- The hungry customer is greeted by a large touch screen, selects a pizza and pays by sweeping a student debit card or a credit card.
- The machine moves the pizza to a disc, juke-box style, into the convection oven that's fired up to 475 degrees. When it's done, the pizza is placed in a cardboard box, which ejects through a slot.
Total time from ordering to cooking is three minutes, and the pizzas will cost $10 each, according to the company.
If this conjures up images of vending machine pizza, think again.
“It is the best pizza I’ve ever had, and I hate to admit that as a New Yorker,” Jennifer Paiotti, marketing director of XU’s auxiliary services, told WCPO.
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