Walk into most break rooms across Greenville and Spartanburg and you'll find the same thing — a vending machine stocked with the same chips, candy bars, and sodas that have been there for years. But that's starting to change. More businesses in the Upstate are actively requesting healthier options in their vending machines, and the reasons go beyond just following a wellness trend. Employees Are Asking For It The simplest reason healthy vending is growing is that employees wa

Choosing a vending provider might seem like a small decision, but the wrong one can mean months of dealing with empty machines, stale product, and service requests that go nowhere. Here are five things worth thinking about before you commit. 1. Find Out Who Actually Services the Machine This is the single most important question. Large national vending companies own thousands of machines spread across huge territories. Your machine is one of many, and when something goes wron

If you manage a business, office, or facility and you've looked into getting a vending machine, you've probably seen companies offering "free placement." It sounds almost too good to be true — someone delivers a machine, stocks it, maintains it, and you don't pay anything? Here's how it actually works. The Business Model Is Simple Vending operators make money from the products sold in the machine — not from charging you for the equipment. When a vending company places a machi