Is Healthy Vending Realistic for Small Vendors? During my training as a vending route driver, I have been thinking about the movement towards healthy vending for customers and how, logistically, a vending machine operator could work with product that spoils much faster than traditional vending snacks. Shadowing my...
[vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_4vOUDImE"] In this series of blogs, we want to take a step back from the technology and talk about people and their interactions and engagement with innovative vending machines. Stories ranging from cameras in vending machines to talking vending machines, we will talk about it...
[vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6npykxrP40"] In this series of blogs, we want to take a step back from the technology and talk about people and their interactions and engagement with unique vending machines. Stories ranging from cameras in vending machines to talking vending machines, we will talk about it all....
According to a recent survey by KPMG LLC, vending technology is driving the food and beverage industry’s growth. Services like Facebook and Twitter along with mobile/online marketing and the cloud have completely changed the way large companies are doing business. Vending technology is changing operations based...
The words “candy” and “healthy” do not often meet together in the same sentence. We tend to think of the term “healthy” as food that is natural or somehow beneficial for our bodies. For “candy,” we think the opposite, delicious yet sugary and unhealthy. Of...
In a news story that came out a few weeks ago, KSL.com’s Brooke Walker reported on a vending machine at the Discovery Gateway Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. This vending machine is special, among other special vending machines we have talked about in the...
The CEO of Parlevel Systems, Luis Gonzalez, recently wrote a blog regarding his thoughts on what other experts in various industries say about being a CEO and a successful vending opeartor. In essence, in his opinion, there is no “one type fits all” kind of...
The Internet is a big place, but it is also a place for people to easily hide their identities and use harmful language against someone or an organization simply to cause a stir. These people are called trolls and should be ignored, blocked, or removed...
An Unfortunate Anecdote During my time in the vending business, my friend at Chow Time Vending went through an experience that I hope does not happen again for him or anyone else with a vending business. We were at a location in which he needed to...
Parevel Systems is a company founded on the idea of connecting everyday objects to the Internet. Parlevel built a simple, yet powerful VMS solution to connect vending machines to the Internet to provide real time sales data, financial reports, intelligent routing, breakdown alerts, and inventory controls, among...