Buy hot chips from vending machines

澳洲將推出熱薯條自動販賣機(jī)

Hot chip vending machine created by company that believed it could fry

A Western Australian company has made a hot chip vending machine that deep fries frozen chips while you wait.

澳大利亞西部一家公司設(shè)計出一款熱薯條自動販賣機(jī),在顧客等候期間能自動將冷凍薯條烤制成熱騰騰的薯條.

While the idea has occurred to many who have stared sadly at the closed sign of the local takeaway at 3am before stumbling home for a disappointing slice of toast, the successful execution took years of work.

凌晨三點,人們幽怨的盯一眼外賣餐館前暫時歇業(yè)的告示牌,而后踩著無力的腳步回家啃令人毫無胃口、索然無味的面包片時,腦海通常會閃過一個念頭：如果有一臺熱食自動售賣機(jī)該多好,這種想法歷經(jīng)多年終于變成了現(xiàn)實.

It's the latest venture of the Perth businessman Peter Malone, best known for his turn as managing director of collapsed telecommunications company New Tel, the $2.5bn business he founded with his best man in 1988.

這是澳大利亞珀斯城（Perth）商人彼得·馬?≒eter Malone）最新的風(fēng)險項目,其最為人熟知的身份是電信公司New Tel總經(jīng)理一職,這是他在1988年與其男儐相攜手建立的公司,在即將倒閉前,該公司曾有過25億美元的輝煌.

New Tel was publicly listed in 1999 and raised $150m from the market before its promise of being "the America Online of China" fell flat. When the company went into administration in 2002 it owed creditors almost $50m. Both Telstra and Optus were owed $10m.

New Tel于1999年上市,在其推行的"在中國實現(xiàn)與美國的自由通訊"計劃失敗之前,曾從市場中籌集到1.5億美元,2002年,公司因計劃失敗虧欠股東近5000萬美元,改由政府接管.當(dāng)時澳大利亞電信公司（Telstra）和澳都斯公司（Optus ）皆負(fù)債1000萬美元.

Malone, who heads The Hot Chips Company, said the vending machine's development began more than 10 years ago when his group of business associates began tracking failed attempts by other companies.

擔(dān)任熱薯條公司（The Hot Chips Company）執(zhí)行董事的馬?硎?早在十多年前,當(dāng)其商業(yè)團(tuán)隊與其他公司失去監(jiān)管聯(lián)系時便開始研發(fā)這款自動販賣機(jī).

He said their machine, which has just passed the trial stage and will start commercial production this year, fried the chips in a 10-litre vat of rice bran oil in the belly of the machine.

馬隆稱,這款機(jī)器不久前剛通過試驗階段,將于今年投入商業(yè)化生產(chǎn),薯條會在含有10升米糠油的機(jī)體內(nèi)烤制.

The technology used in the final design, which relies on a robotic arm to catch the chips in a cup and then serve them up to the waiting customer, has only become available in recent years.