I honestly dont know why this hasn't been done before, but to me that system they have just looked at a catalog at a external ticket machine and then thought that will do.
Remember that Stern and innovation thread we were talking about?
It has been done before by you know who.....
http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/A-14365Anyway, I think the "in your face" placement of the dispenser is a good idea to be honest. Get those pins back onsite into the Chuck E Cheese outlets with a renewed focus primarily as a redemption machine and there is that new generation "being made aware of and changing the perception of pinball" I was talking about.
WOZ should do the same with the standard edition units - and it is a lot more family friendly than a lot of Sterns titles (and thus more palatable to the Chuck E Cheese demographic.).