The New Jersey Jewish Standard reports:

This month, [Kosher Vending Industries] will unveil 25 machines serving kosher dairy items for a trial run. The first machines will serve pizza, mozzarella sticks, onion rings, vegetable cutlets, potato knishes, and French fries, at a cost of $3 to $4 per item. The food, all certified by the Kof-K, will come frozen from various suppliers and Kosher Vending will repackage it for its machines. Eventually, Cohnen would like to expand to separate meat machines.

We’ve had our rants about whether one more unenlightened, processed kosher food option actually amounts to a good thing, but not so much has been said about gadgets in general — automats are really cool.

Too bad so many of the options are so bad for you.

“They think we’re going to be bigger than Kraft because of our niche market,” he said.

Dream big, guys.

A Mintel market research report earlier this year stated that kosher foods have grown into a $14.6 billion industry and that 7.5 million people in the United States buy kosher foods for religious reasons or because they believe them to be more healthful.

Cohnen expects the kosher vending machines to be a success and spread not just across the country, but also across the world.

“Anywhere is a potential market for us,” Cohnen said.