ATM - A Tasty Machine

We live in a convenience-focused world.  Need groceries at 2 am? No problem - there’s likely a 24 hour market nearby.  Short on cash?  Easy – there’s an ATM just up the street.  Spilled something on your best suit the day before your buddy's wedding? Fear not – there’s a same-day dry cleaners around the corner (and if you’re lucky they can get it done in an hour).  The world, or maybe just Chicago, is constantly trying to make our lives uber easy.  

No, I didn’t just learn that yesterday.  I did, however, learn about the latest convenience that has popped up in Chicago – a cupcake ATM.  That’s right, you can now make convenient cupcake withdrawals 24 hours a day, 7 days we week at Sprinkles Cupcakes in the Gold Coast.  How many times have you woken up in a cold sweat craving a cupcake only to realize that every bakery in town was closed for the night?  And how many times have you had to settle for a semi-stale Hostess cupcake because your favorite cupcake shop closes at 6pm on Sunday?  Yeah, those things haven’t happened to me either, but if they ever do, I will be able to overcome them by simply visiting the Sprinkles ATM. 

The Sprinkles Cupcake ATM holds 500 cupcakes.  Flavors are based on the daily assortment of cupcakes, and each cupcake costs $4.  Sorry, kids, it won’t do you any good to save your pennies in your piggy bank because the Sprinkles ATM only accepts plastic.  I suppose you could walk the extra 12 feet to the actual store and buy a cupcake with those pennies, but that’s so old school.

So if you are jonesing for some cupcakes in the middle of the night, or if you just prefer to get your cupcakes from a cold, impersonal machine rather than an actual human (and who doesn’t, especially in January) than the Sprinkles ATM is for you!  And if it is for you, well then you’d probably be interested to know that the ATM has its own Facebook page.

Enjoy

https://www.facebook.com/sprinkles#!/CupcakeATMChicago