French baker Jean-Louis Hecht has rolled out a 24-hour automated baguette dispenser, promising warm bread for hungry night owls, shift workers or anyone else who doesn’t have time to pick one up during their bakery’s opening hours. Hecht, a baker from Hombourg-Haut in north-east France has opened one in his home town and another in Paris, both next to his bakeries. What was the inspiration for the baguette vending machine? Hecht told Marketplace: “I know all my customers. Some of them, when they’d forgotten to come before closing time, used to ring my bell because I lived above the bakery and I’d come down have a bit of a chat and sell them a baguette. But when I went back up my wife used to complain that the dinner was cold, “You’re never there! Nag, nag, nag.” So one day I said “Don’t worry, I’m going to build a machine.”