Pix Pâtisserie’s New 24-Hour Vending Machine Is the Closest Thing East Burnside Has to Nightlife Right Now

At a glance, it would seem like the apotheosis of the city’s well-documented queuing culture—a bunch of hypebeasts risking health and dryness just to grab a Milky Way and experience the thrill of standing single-file again. But the Pix-O-Matic, the new dessert-dispensing apparatus outside French pastry shop Pix Pâtisserie, isn’t just a retro-chic update on the machines you used to grab an apple from in college, although that’s partly the inspiration.