Pizza lovers in the US can now relish their favourite cheesy delicacy by using the first-ever ‘pizza ATM’ in the country installed at a university campus. The pizza vending machine on the campus of Xavier University (XU) in Ohio can hold seventy 12-inch pizzas and dispense them fresh and hot in just three minutes.

Customers can select what kind of pizza they want using the 24-hour machine’s touchscreen.

• The pizza ATM, which opens for public on August 10, has a temperature-controlled refrigeration system that allows the pizza to stay fresh and a convection oven that enables it to be served nice and hot in just three minutes.

• Once users decide what type they want, the ATM then slides the option in the oven, cuts it into slices, places the pizza into a cardboard box and ejects the meal. The cost of each pizza is around USD 10, with the ATM accepting credit and debit cards, as well as a student card.

• The ATM has a dependable process that preserves taste and quality – the pizza and its ingredients never touch any part of the machine, French-based company Paline, which developed the ATM.

• The machine offers full remote communication for custom settings and tracking, real-time email and text alerts, webcam monitoring, remote error and shutdown detection.