A new fast-food concept is finding its way into the Mauricie.
Minute Pizza has just launched its vending machines that allow you to order and receive a hot meal in three minutes, a formula that should meet the needs of a restaurant.
Operating the vending machines is easy, says Minute Pizza President Sébastien Manseau.
A menu is displayed on a 65-inch digital screen for you to view the various choices and place your order.
After payment, the machine turns on, for example to bake a pizza. This is ready in three minutes and is handed over to the customer in a box.
Minute Pizza also offers lunch and subs.
All meals are prepared before consumption at the Trois-Rivières factory.
On the line, staff prepare the meals, which are then sent to the cold store while awaiting transport.
“We are able to produce around 10,000 products in one shift per week,” says Mr. Manseau.
If the demand is stronger than expected, the company can adapt and, for example, introduce an evening and night shift.
Everything is transported in a refrigerated truck that can hold 1,200 meals.
The driver will then walk around the machines three times a day to fill them up.
“In the morning he will complete his lunch and fill his supper. In the afternoon he will refill what he sold for dinner for his dinner. At the end of the day, he will fill his evening, his night and his lunch the next day,” says Mr. Manseau.
At a time when restaurants are understaffed and hours are reduced, this formula fills a need.
It will also be possible to feed workers with atypical working hours.
Even some industries have already approached the company to install a vending machine in their facility.
Including factories and the harbor park.
It was also the company’s intention to target truckers as a customer base.
Two of these machines are now available to the public at two service stations in Trois-Rivières.
The first on Gene H Blvd. Kruger and the second on Rue des Prairies.
By the end of the year, there should be 200 distributed across the province.