Italy introduces pizza-making vending machine

There hasn’t been an automat — does anyone even remember automats? — in Kansas City since the 1960s, when there was a building filled with groovy vending machines in Waldo. (Leonard Mirabile, of Jasper’s Restaurant, told me about it; he loved it when he was a kid).

Since the last great era for the automat was the Great Depression, it may be time for a renaissance for those coin-operated eating venues.

Yesterday’s story in the New York Times describes a new vending machine that bakes fresh pizza — that’s right, from scratch, not frozen — in three minutes.

I wonder if such a machine would work in Kansas City like, maybe, at the stadiums?