ATM at Ohio school doles out next best thing to cash _ pizza
By Associated Press
Sep 9, 2016 3:56 PM CDT
Visitors look on as a Pizza ATM machine prepares an order at Xavier University, Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, in Cincinnati. The university partnered with French company Paline to install the first Pizza ATM in North America. The machine holds 70 pizzas at once as customers will be able to use a touch screen...   (Associated Press)

CINCINNATI (AP) — A newly installed ATM at an Ohio university is doling out the next best thing to money — pizza.

Xavier (ZAYV'-yur) University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the first Pizza ATM in North America.

The company, Paline, says the machine will hold 70 pizzas at once. Each medium-sized pizza costs $9 or $10, depending on toppings.

Customers will be able to use a touchscreen to select a pizza, which will be heated for several minutes, placed in a cardboard box and ejected through a slot.

Paline says the pizza dispensers have been in Europe for 14 years. They're typically in small towns, at gas stations or pizzerias.

Pizza lovers have been using the machine since it started providing pies on Thursday.

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