Fill your machine with a wide variety of snacks.
A snack machine can be a money-maker for someone with an entrepreneurial bent and a little bit of start-up cash. Relatively cheap to purchase and fill, snack machines are popular in schools, offices, hospital lobbies, and almost anywhere where people will be spending time. When it comes to filling your snack machine, look at your customer base and choose accordingly.
Vending Connection
Vending Connection sells everything from the machine itself to a wide variety of snacks to fill it. The firm offers a "Vending Start-Up Kit," which is a three-ring binder stocked with information on develop your own vending business, with a complete checklist so you can keep track of how well certain products are doing.
Merchandise is available through vendingconnection.com.
Healthy Snack Store
For those looking for different kinds of snacks, the Healthy Snack Store offers a large variety of healthier options to fill your machine. Healthy Snack Store offers gluten- and nut-free products for those with allergies, as well as nutrition bars, granola bars, fruit chips and trail mix. Healthy Snack Store also has baby food, kosher food and other specialty items that might be hard to find elsewhere.
Healthy Snack products are geared toward a medical office or elementary school, anywhere patients or children are being encouraged to make the right food choices. Products can be purchased from healthysnackstore.com.
Mars Chocolate
Although Mars products are certainly not geared toward a low-fat diet, chocolate products like M&M's are extremely popular. Mars offers a lot of other well-known brands of chocolate and candy products, such as Twix, Snickers, Three Musketeers, Skittles, Starburst and Milky Ways.
Of the top 10 best-selling vending products in the United States, eight of them are Mars products. Candy can be ordered from marsvending.com.
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