The machine was put in on the Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh in January 2021
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Like all foreigner in Paris, Rohit Shekhar Sharma, the founder and CEO at iMatrix Group of Corporations, was fascinated with the artwork and structure. Whereas attending an exhibition, he chanced upon the pizza-dispensing machine and questioned if he might replicate the concept again residence.
The Pizza ATM at Chandigarh’s Sukhna Lake
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Amarjot Kaur
“It was some 4 years in the past, earlier than Covid, after I first noticed the machine in France and different elements of Europe. Importing it to India meant investing ₹60 lakh, so on coming again to India we began making the machine on the manufacturing unit of iMatrix World Vast in Mohali,” says Rohit.
The machine, he says, was put in on the Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh in January 2021, after the corporate received the tender floated by CITCO (Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Growth Company Restricted), a Chandigarh Administration endeavor. “We at the moment are ready for the renewal of the tender which is due this 12 months,” he says.
Geared up with a pizza oven, business microwave oven and a deep freezer, the LED-body panel machine delivers a pizza in simply two-and-a-half to a few minutes
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Amarjot Kaur
The Pizza ATM is an entire meals outlet in itself, which does the job of storing, baking and dishing out pizzas. Geared up with a pizza oven, business microwave oven and a deep freezer, the LED-body panel machine delivers a pizza in simply two-and-a-half to a few minutes, says Rohit.
“The machine’s interface with the person is such that it’s important to insert a token or scan a bar code. Then seven choices of various pizzas within the machine are lit up. A robotic arm will get activated and picks up the saved frozen pizza. The machine can retailer upto 50 pizzas. It brings it to the oven the place the pizza is baked after which serves it to the client by the service window,” he provides, explaining the functioning of the machine.
Out there in medium and huge sizes, Pizza ATM provides solely vegetarian pizzas
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Amarjot Kaur
Out there in medium and huge sizes, Pizza ATM provides solely vegetarian pizzas. The choices embody Margarita, cheese and corn, particular Jain pizza, Hawaiian pizza and paneer tikka pizzas, which can be found in medium and huge sizes.
“We’re eyeing franchise fashions and need to broaden in and in a foreign country too. So, we wish uniformity and the substances are sourced from totally different corporations, like Del Monte, Veeba, Amul, Britannia and Go Cheese. They’re our primary suppliers. Making frozen pizzas is a unique course of and the corporate’s secret too; we did our coaching from Paris,” shares Rohit.
The medium-size pizzas are priced between ₹220 and ₹340, whereas large-size pizzas fall within the vary of ₹320 and ₹490. Rohit says, the costs are far lower than many worldwide pizza chains. “We’re promoting practically 100 pizzas a day,” he provides, stating that the enterprise has been good for the previous three years.
The Pizza ATM is beside Sukhna Lake Chandigarh, Sector No.1, Chandigarh. A meal for 2 prices roughly ₹500.
