Cold Food Vending Options

Cold food vending machines offer a greater range of products.

Vending machines offer convenient foods to the public in many locations, including schools and at work. Offering cold and frozen foods is not as simple as offering chips, cookies, candy bars and gum. Some foods need to be kept cold in order to avoid spoiling, others need to be kept frozen. Some are ready to eat, while others need to be cooked after purchase. In order to determine what machines you need, determine what specific foods you want to sell.

Ready-to-Eat Cold Food Options

With the right machine, you can offer a greater selection of enticing foods.

Cold food vending machines offer a myriad of options. While sandwiches are the most common food found in cold food vending machines, there are many other choices, as well. Some machines can accommodate salads, desserts and fruits and vegetables. Depending upon the type of machine you purchase, you can stock it with plates of prepared foods, as well. These prepared foods could be anything from cheese plates to fruit salads.

Cold Foods To Be Cooked

It's not delivery, it's a vending machine.

With cold food vending machines, you are not limited to sandwiches, salads or fruits and vegetables. If you provide a microwave for heating, there are many other options available. Fresh meals, such as pastas, hamburgers, pizza or soups and chili can all be sold using cold-food vending machines. These dishes are similar to what you find at many full-service grocery stores, and there is the possibility that you can make arrangements with them to sell their products in your machines.

Cold-Food Vending Machines

Some machines have locking chambers and rotate to vend items.

There are a number of cold-food vending machines on the market, and they vary depending upon what products will be offered. If you are looking to sell sandwiches, then you want a machine that is similar to traditional chip and candy vending machines. The sandwiches are held upright and fall down to the retrieval bin when you make your selection. If you are looking to sell other cold foods, or cold foods to be cooked, then you want a machine that rotates its products and has independent locking chambers. The carousel rotates to display items, and when an item is selected, the chamber is unlocked so the product can be removed.

Ready-to-Eat Frozen Food Options

There are vending machines that carry frozen foods, such as ice cream and novelty frozen treats. The ice cream is usually provided in small, sealed cups and can be solid ice cream or tiny frozen balls of ice cream, such as Dippin' Dots. Novelty items include ice cream sandwiches, popsicles, ice cream bars and ice cream cones dipped in chocolate and rolled in nuts.

Frozen Foods To Be Cooked

Frozen food vending machines provide complete meals.

As with the cold foods that need to be cooked, frozen foods that need to be cooked require you to have a microwave nearby for heating the food. Frozen dinners are commonly found in these vending machines. Frozen burritos and hamburgers are also options you can provide. By providing these types of vending machines, you offer buyers the option to eat a more complete and filling meal, not just a snack.

Frozen Food Vending Machines

You can grab a quick but filling meal from a frozen-food vending machine.

Ice cream vending machines are interesting to watch. The frozen foods are kept in a freezer within the machine. When a customer makes a selection, the chest opens and a vacuum hose proceeds to attach itself to the item and hold it while delivering it to the retrieval space. The frozen-food vending machines tend to look like the sandwich vending machines, with items standing upright, and falling down upon selection. Some frozen-food vending machines look like the cold-food vending machines with the rotating carousel. There are many styles of machine to choose from.

References

• A&M Vending Machine Sales
• Avanti Vending Machines
• Vending.com
• Global Vending Group