Snack food equipment and supplies help business owners cater to one of the world’s favorite pastimes–snacking. Whether they are waiting for a service or engaged in a business discussion, customers enjoy waiting in offices that offer a variety of light foods and beverages. You can stock your complimentary or coin-operated vending machines with a variety of food and drinks ranging from nuts to chips and sodas to bottled waters.

With endless options in junk food snack machines, snack supplies and snack food equipment distributors, it may be difficult to choose what’s best for your customers and staff. Consider the following tips:

1. Compare new and used snack food equipment.

2. Offer a variety of healthy and junk food snacks and beverages.

3. Find a snack food equipment distributor.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Evaluate snack food equipment options

Before buying snacks, make sure you have the budget to purchase snack food machines and other equipment to distribute your snacks. Also, consider if you would prefer to have complimentary or coin-operated snack equipment for your staff and/or customers.

I recommend: Global Vending Group sells new and used snack food equipment including machines for soda, snacks, coffee, candy and combo machines (mixture of snacks and beverages). Vendco offers free and subsidized snack machine options for companies that offer complimentary snacks and beverages to employees and customers.

Review options for snack supplies

Once you have determined that you can afford the cost of snack machines and service, start reviewing options for snack supplies. Be accommodating to your staff and customer cravings for not only junk food snacks, but also healthy snack food supplies. Stock your machines with an even proportion of both.

I recommend: Betty Mills is a snack food distributor offering a range of snack supplies including candy, crackers, chips, gum, cookies, quick meals, breakfast foods, nuts and popcorn. Healthy-Vending specializes in stocking snack machines with healthy snacks and beverages such as nutrition bars, protein cookies, soy chips, caffeine-free sodas, juices and a variety of flavored and non-flavored bottled waters.

Purchase snack equipment and food for your office

Now that you have evaluated your budget and reviewed options for snack supplies and equipment, it's time to find a snack food equipment distributor. Be sure to choose a distributor that is local, offers regular stocking services and a variety of healthy and junk food snacks.

I recommend: Buy Rite Vending offers a variety of tabletop and standard-size snack machines. Sunset Orchards distributes a range of snack-size nut combinations and candy options.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Consider making extra money by starting your own snack food machine business. Basic duties include servicing and refilling snack food machines, cleaning equipment and collecting your cash. Best of all, you decide the amount of money you want to make based on the amount of time you can commit to your junk food snack machine business.