Spontaneously turn on the grill in the evening - but the butcher's and supermarket are already closed?
In Neufinsing you can now buy grilled meat and sausages around the clock.
Neufinsing - At Whitsun, the butcher Geyer & Pretsch set up a meat and sausage machine on Erdinger Strasse, "and it is really being accepted," reports junior boss Helena Pretsch.
Customers sometimes come on a Saturday night at 3 a.m. to stock up on cheese grills, she says with a laugh.
The vending machine is particularly popular on the weekends and on Mondays when the butcher's shop is closed.
And even when the family business is on holiday, around August, customers can be supplied with meat and sausage with the help of the pleasure box.
Now in summer, the machine is mainly stocked with grilled food, from marinated wammerl slices to turkey and beef sirloin steaks to cheese grills and rump slices.
Pretsch also wants to offer the classics in larger packs with more content - ideal for private barbecues with several people, which are currently allowed again.
White sausages for the morning pint, meat for the grill
There is also pasta and potato salad, white sausages for the morning pint, sausages for making snacks, packaged Bolognese and chili con carne as well as a small selection of drinks.
This is particularly popular with cyclists who cycle past the butcher's shop.
What is the machine filled with at the end of the barbecue season?
"We have to try that," says Pretsch and can imagine white sausages, but also the finished Bolognese sauce and chili con carne for it.
The prices are adjusted to the retail price.
You can pay in the classic way with cash, but you can also pay with an EC card or mobile phone via Apple Pay, because the machine is full of high-tech.
For example, Pretsch is informed by mobile phone when a compartment is empty, when there is no longer enough change or if the temperature inside should change after a power failure, for example.
Usually this is around two degrees.
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