Snack Vending Machines

Offer employees a variety of choices with a break room snack machine

Most seasoned business owners know that a happy employee typically equates to a more productive employee. Adding snack vending machines to your office is one way to keep employee s happy.

The snack machines found in today’s offices are no longer limited to soda, candy, chips and prepackaged sandwiches. Many snack vending machine suppliers offer healthy snack vending machines featuring a wide range of delicacies, such as granola bars, energy drinks and more.

Before you choose snack vending machines for your business, consider the following:

1. Ask employees what items they would like to see in a snack vending machine, even requesting that they distinguish between preferred soda and snack food brands.
2. Determine whether or not you want full-service food vending machine providers that restock items and handle any maintenance issues, or if you would prefer to purchase a coin operated snack vending machine outright.
3. Explore local or regional snack vending machine providers to support local products and services.

Offer healthy snack alternatives

Many people today are trying to be more health-conscious, so why not help them out by providing an alternative to candy vending machines? Even better, the snacks found in healthy snack vending machines will give employees a real boost instead of the false energy a sugar-high typically provides.

Quench that thirst

Chances are your employees will want to wash down that healthy snack with a cold or hot beverage. Make sure there are plenty of options for them to choose from.

Support local vendors

A local or regional snack vending machine distributor may be able to provide more hands-on service as well as include items and brands that are regionally produced.

• Consider renting a machine directly from a vendor. This will limit the products you can offer, but you'll typically be able to keep some of the profits with this type of set up.

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