Bread vending machine with on-the-spot toasting

A vending machine for pieces of toasted bread, characterised in that the vending machine comprises:

• a control module;
• a screen in communication with the control module that displays a graphical interface for the sale of a product;
• an input interface consisting of a plurality of non-contact sensors for user selection of a desired type and quantity of the product and positioned beyond the screen;
• a storage device where an inventory of two different types of the product for sale is stored;
• a pair of product feed modules set up below the storage device where each feed module is configured to receive a pair of pieces of selected product by force of gravity and pushes them towards a sliding device which moves the received pair of pieces of selected product towards a toaster module for toasting;
• the toaster module comprising a toasting chamber with an open product inlet and outlet, the toaster module configured to toast the received pair of pieces of selected product, resulting in toasted product pieces;
• and
• an exit device located below the outlet of the toaster module which is configured to pass the toasted product pieces out of and underneath the toaster module to a conveying device, whereby each of the toasted product pieces slides out of the machine through the conveying device.