Hot Beverage Vending Machines Key Terms

Knowing hot beverage vending machine terms can help you secure the features you need

Whether you’re offering hot beverages like coffee and cocoa to your employees in the break room or marketing drinks to customers through vending machines, learning key terminology will enable you to choose the equipment with the right features. Studying terms like “drip method brewing,” and “bill validator” and “CombiSnack” will not only help you pick a hot beverage vending machine that outputs the type and amount of product you want, but will also allow you to discuss upgrades, parts replacements or troubleshooting with machine vendors to keep the equipment in top shape.

Drip method brewing

Give your customers the best tasting coffee by purchasing a hot beverage vending machine that uses a drip method brewing process. The system also features bean grinders to produce fresh, restaurant-style coffee.

CombiSnack

Increase your product offerings without using more floor space with a CombiSnack unit that offers both hot beverages and cold snacks. While the hot beverage portion offers fresh-brewed coffee, the cold portion will accommodate everything from soda cans to bagged snacks.

Dual strength

Allow customers to customize their brew with a dual strength feature that provides a stronger cup of coffee. The ability to enhance the robust flavor of the coffee may attract customers who ordinarily consider vending machine coffee to watery and weak.

Multiple pricing

Look for vending machine units that feature a multiple pricing option that allows you to tailor rates based on the beverage. Also called individual pricing, the feature will allow you to make more money on specialty beverages like hot mochas or soups.

Bill validator

Reduce fraud from customers trying to use counterfeit bills or slugs instead of coins to pay for hot beverages. Retrofit your hot beverage vending machines with a new bill validator or coin acceptor to increase the unit's security level.

ePort

If you'd rather eliminate the ability to accept dollar bills and coins altogether, consider equipping your hot beverage machines with ePort systems that require the use of credit and debit cards for payment. The cashless system also tracks sales figures to simplify accounting.

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