TAKING PIZZA TO
THE NEXT LEVEL
The Midwest’s first pizza vending machine arrived in Marshall in late July. And Missouri Valley College students were soon lining up for the four-minute pies. Liz Huff, owner of Catalpa Restaurant in Arrow Rock, Mo., was busy making hundreds of pizzas to keep the machine stocked. She and Missouri Valley College’s new president, Dr. Joe Parisi, cooked up the idea in the spring when Huff was a speaker for the Maastricht Institute of Entrepreneurship on the MVC campus.
Just a couple of months after that initial discussion, a kiosk-type machine that is about the size of an ATM arrived all the way from France. It sits outside of Burns Athletic Complex, and is popping out hot and delicious pies, as well as warm cookies. “Our students are literally eating this up,” Parisi said. “Liz Huff is such a true entrepreneur and she is modeling that for us in our school of business. I think we’re going to see these machines all over the Midwest very soon.” Huff said the machine stores up to 96 pizzas/ cookies in a refrigerated zone. When an order comes in via a Smart Pizza mobile app or is directly keyed in at the front of the machine, a 12- inch pizza moves into one of the two stone-bottom ovens that fires up to close to 700 degrees. She and her company, Lot-za Pizza, plan all the varieties of pizza one might expect, and more. She plans to have special promotional items as well.
PROUDLY SERVING
Starbucks
Missouri Valley College began proudly serving Starbucks coffee in the Malcolm Center Bistro soon after Dr. Joe Parisi arrived on campus, and the coffee shop became a big hit among students and community members.
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