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Cupcake ATM: Would You Use It?

Cupcake ATMs—a novel idea, but would you buy a cupcake from an automated machine?

 

The latest saga of the cupcake trend is the automated cupcake machine, Georgetown Patch recently reported.

Last spring, the Sprinkles Cupcakes store of Beverly Hills installed an automated cupcake dispensary, Beverly Hills Patch reported.

Then, The Washington Post reported that the Sprinkles Cupcakes store in Georgetown could be next in line to receive one of the bright pink machines.

The Post's report read like a space-age prediction of a sweet and rosy future:

"Customers can walk up to the machine, which looks like a sherbet-colored ATM, select one of about eight daily popular flavors, swipe their credit card ($4 each) and receive an individually packaged cupcake."

What do you think: Should Bethesda and Friendship Heights have cupcake machines, too?

Would you use them to satisfy 3 a.m. cravings for cupcakes from Bethesda's Georgetown Cupcake and Chevy Chase's Frosting, A Cupcakery? 

Tell us in the comments.

  • Should automated cupcake machines be installed in Bethesda and Friendship Heights?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes, what are we waiting for?
        3 (50%)
    • No. Our culture is already too over-sugared and 24-hour-wired. Besides, anticipation (of the cupcake shop's morning opening) only makes the cupcakes taste better.
        3 (50%)
    • Only with 24-hour security. I don't want to be robbed at 3 a.m. over a cupcake.
        0 (0%)
    Total votes: 6
    • Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!
Related Topics: Business, Cupcakes, and Small Business

Michael Shapiro

9:48 am on Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Sorry, I can't participate in the poll. I'm just having trouble wrapping my head around this "brand new" concept.

Has anyone heard of Horn and Hardardts?

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Eric S.

11:22 am on Wednesday, July 25, 2012

I only voted yes because I want this to open the way to anything food related late at night that's not the 7-11's on River or Wisconsin or the Steak and Egg kitchen.

And as usual, save for a couple examples (Five Guys!), DC gets whatever kitschy food trend is popular in L.A. and New York about two years after it gets big, and a year before the Midwest. Haters gonna hate, me, I'll take it or leave it depending on if I like it.

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Eve

2:38 pm on Thursday, July 26, 2012

South Street Steaks on Cordell is my late nite spot on weekends they open till 3 am

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Eric S.

6:17 pm on Thursday, July 26, 2012

Thanks! I had no idea they were open late!

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