Sprinkles Cup Cake Vending Machine

Cupcakes are part of the American life, full of American-style atmosphere, simple, free, and happy, and the emergence of a fresh upgrade of this machine, so that cupcakes once again walk in the fashion frontier of the cake industry. Cupcake ATM not only meets people's desire for food, but also creatively provides a more novel and convenient way to purchase. Now, Cupcake ATM is not only a convenient choice for night owl sweet lovers, it is clearly becoming more and more love of fresh consumers.

Spunkles, an American dessert brand, sells cupcakes to consumers through ATMs. Even with a limit of 1,000 cupcakes per vending machine, the cupcake ATM has contributed more than half of Sprinkles’ total profit.

When "Sex and the City" actress Carrie ate cupcakes while eating cupcakes on the streets of New York, she confided in her love to her friends, and Max and Caroline's two poor ladies in "Bankrupt Sister" dreamed of running their own cupcake shops. The appearance of cupcakes in these plays has led the people of the world to aspire to this beautiful and delicate little love.

In the United States, the enthusiasm for people to upgrade to cupcakes is nothing more than the Cupcake ATM designed by Sprinkles, a famous local cake shop. This design allows consumers to buy the same fresh cupcakes in a fresher way, and its upgraded freshness has attracted the attention of more and more consumers.

The creative idea of ​​Cupcake ATM came from Candace Nelson, founder of Sprinkles. During the pregnancy, she suddenly wanted to eat a cup of cake for a sudden night, but almost all shops were closed at that time, including Sprinkles, which she founded. "Imagine being the creator of Sprinkles, I couldn't even get a cupcake at midnight. This is a ridiculous thing." Nelson said, "I think there must be a way to achieve what I want, Later I conceived the idea of ​​a cup cake 24-hour vending machine."

After more than a year of design and manufacturing, Cupcake ATM finally came out. During the design process, Candace Nelson and her husband, in addition to considering the machine capacity for cupcakes, more importantly, consider how to ensure the safety of these cupcakes, that is, how to “send” fresh and complete cupcakes to customers. Instead of "throwing" beverages to consumers, as in a beverage vending machine.

“Cupcakes are very fragile little things that are covered with thick icing sugar. This means that as long as the cupcakes go wrong from any point in the machine's storage to the customer’s hands, the cake is destroyed.” To prevent this from happening, they designed a special robotic arm that would hold the cake box tightly using suction and then gently moved it to the window in front of the customer.