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'Fancy a pizza?'

Company creates vending machine pizza

April 3, 1999
Web posted at: 6:28 p.m. EST (2328 GMT)
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MADRID (CNN) -- Telepizza, a Spanish fast food company, say it has developed a new vending machine to sell hot pizza.

According to the company, the "Pizza Magic" machine is able to take orders in 10 languages and,for about $1.80, defrosts and cooks a small pizza in about a minute and a half.

The machine also solicits its own customers. It is able to detect passers-by and asks, "Fancy a pizza?"

The company says it hopes to distribute 3,000 to 9,000 of the machines worldwide over the next three years. Telepizza estimates it will be able to sell up to 97 million pizzas.

Reuters contributed to this report.


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