When students returned to in-person classes in August 2020, Louisiana’s Livingston Parish Public Schools struggled to serve lunch while adhering to social distance guidelines. That’s when the district ...

Could your next go-to salad lunch spot be a vending machine? Here's what you should know about Farmer's Fridge—and the company's plan to expand to a location near you. “We get a report every day that ...

Nutrition Services with the Carson City School District has added vending machines as part of its food distribution process. The effort is designed to help meet student needs and provide alternatives ...

Aslak de Silva, CEO of Selfly Store, works with customers in 20+ countries generating revenue with data and intelligent vending machines. As technology continues to change retail, vending machines ...

Vending machines have certain advantages that make getting into the vending machine business attractive, particularly to beginning entrepreneurs with limited capital. However, there's also a lot of ...

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A customer picks up her lunch from an automated cubby at eatsa, a fully automated fast food restaurant in San Francisco, California. Getty Images The automat is returning to Midtown — with a 21st ...

In one of his first jobs after college, Luke Saunders happened to take a sales job that required driving 1,000 miles a week through Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky. Dinner, most of the time, ...

Taken together, the vending stories of 2025, and the outlook for 2026, suggest an industry that is steadily redefining its ...