Hot chip vending machines to be rolled out across Australia

One of a kind ... an Australian company is preparing to roll out hot chip vending machines. Picture: Supplied/Peter Malone Source: Supplied

GET ready Australia, soon we’ll be able to get hot chips on the go.

A true blue Aussie company is set to roll out hot chip vending machines across the country by Christmas

Perth-based The Hot Chips Company spent more than five years developing the one-of-a-kind machine with WA potato processor Bendotti Exporters.

“You put your money in and it (the chips) goes from frozen to the fryer and in your cup within two minutes and 20 seconds,” Bendotti Exporters director Stephen Bendotti told ABC.

The companies are working to reduce the wait to just two minutes.

Crispy and delicious ... four prototypes of the hot chip vending machine are currently being tested in Perth and Adelaide. Picture: Supplied/Peter Malone Source: Supplied

The Hot Chips Company CEO Peter Malone said four of the vending machines are currently being tested in Perth and Adelaide.

“It’s a very sophisticated computer essentially, in a lot of ways,” Mr Malone said.

“With robotic technology delivering a cup of hot chips, cooked in approximately two minutes to the user.”

Fresh fries ... the vending machine heats up frozen chips that were pre-fried. Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied

The machines are set to be distributed nationally by the end of the year, with Bendotti and its affiliate company WA Chip the sole suppliers.

“If this takes off, I think it will be a big boost to the area and it will be a huge volume of potatoes that are coming out of this area,” said Mr Bendotti, whose chip processing facility operates in Manjimup.

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— Carbonated.TV (@CarbonatedTV) January 29, 2015

While hot chip vending machines may already exist in Australia, The Hot Chips Company says it is undertaking the first commercial rollout of its kind in the country.

Similar machines already dispense chips in countries like Belgium and Dubai.

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— Culinary Depot (@CDepotny) August 21, 2013

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