{"id":98880982,"date":"2011-08-16T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/only-in-paris-baker-invents-baguette-vending-machine\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T07:48:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:48:40","slug":"only-in-paris-baker-invents-baguette-vending-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/only-in-paris-baker-invents-baguette-vending-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Only in Paris: Baker Invents Baguette Vending Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years from now, Jean-Louis Hecht probably won\u2019t be remembered as a great French thinker. Up against the likes of Descartes, Voltaire, and Rousseau, the cards are already stacked against him. But the man could be a certified genius.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crafty baker from northeast France has done something that generations of Frenchmen before him had only dreamed of: he invented a 24-hour fresh baguette dispenser.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The French culinary staple has become synonymous with dining in France over the centuries, but you might be hard-pressed to find one after dark or during holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Americans hopping on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/paris-par-france-deals\">flights to Paris<\/a> this month may spend quite a bit of time just locating an open bakery. Many of the 33,000 in France close for summer holiday during the popular French vacation month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enter Jean-Louis Hecht. Before closing shop each evening, his 24-hour baguette dispenser is pre-loaded with partially-cooked loaves that finish cooking when paid for, ensuring a piping hot baguette is delivered to the hungry masses no matter the hour. As you might expect, the 1 euro (about $1.42) baguettes have been selling like hotcakes. Jean-Louis estimates that if sales continue at their current pace, the machine will have paid for itself within a year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/et-voila-french-baguettes-vending-machine-140606623.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yahoo! <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years from now, Jean-Louis Hecht probably won\u2019t be remembered as a great French thinker. Up against the likes of Descartes, Voltaire, and Rousseau, the cards are already stacked against him. But the man could be a certified genius. &nbsp; The crafty baker from northeast France has done something that generations of Frenchmen before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98912962,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880982\/revisions\/98912962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}