Christopher Parr, is the Editor and Chief Content Creator for…
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.”
Christopher Parr, is the Editor and Chief Content Creator for Pursuitist, and a contributing writer to USA Today, Business Insider — and the on-air host of Travel Tuesday on Live at 4 CBS. He is an award-winning luxury marketing veteran, writer, a frequent speaker at luxury and interactive marketing conferences and a pioneer in web publishing. Named a "Top 10 Luxury Travel Blogger” by USA Today, Parr has also been selected as the official winner in Luxury Lifestyle Awards’ list of the “Top 50 Best Luxury Influencers and Bloggers in the World.”