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HUMAN Healthy Vending Reviews: Asheville North Carolina

July 12, 2011 By admin 1 Comment

Josh Marr is a 7th grade social studies teacher living in Asheville, North Carolina, but he lives a second life after school hours. No, he is not a secret agent or an undercover cop. He is a HUMAN Healthy Vending Asheville North Carolina machine operator. Marr owns and operates 10 HUMAN Healthy Vending Machines and has plans to increase that number in 4-5 years.

Marr’s 10 machines were placed into varied locations thanks to HUMAN’s location finding services. Two of his machines are a very large high school in North Carolina, which he says can get over 100 vends a day! His average amount of vends per day is about 40-45.

His favorite beverage is the organic chocolate milk and his favorite snack is the Back To Nature Cookies. Marr has been very happy with the support of HUMAN Healthy Vending throughout the process of purchasing and operating the machines. Check out his interview below to find out his favorite part about being a healthy vending machines operator.

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A Day in the Life of a Healthy Vending Machines Operator

June 28, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Becoming a healthy vending machines operator is a simple and sure way to make money. The first few steps are the hardest, but there are tools out there to help you. Once you have your machines purchased and your locations picked, the rest is easy. Here is a basic run down of a day in the life of a healthy vending machines operator.

1. Checking Your Remote Monitoring System

Before you head out to service any machines, you should check your remote monitoring system to see the activity that has taken place in your vending machines. This program should give you a detailed break down of each machine you own with a list of all the products that are currently in the machine. Under each item listed, it will provide you with the number of items the section can hold and how many it has left. This will give you the up to date count of how many of each product you need to bring with you to reload the machine with.

2. Packing Up Your Products

After you have checked your system, you can pack up products accordingly in an organized fashion to make restocking easy. John Pinto, a HUMAN healthy vending machine operator, suggests putting beverages in one container and snacks in the other.

3. Restocking Your Products

Once you have arrived at your location and unlock your machine, you can take a look at your inventory and see what is out and what needs refilling. Then it is as simple as restocking each compartment. Depending on how well products are selling, it is wise to do tests and see if some products sell better than others in certain locations.

4. Refilling the Coin Dispenser

Then, make sure that your coin dispenser is full, in order to ensure that customers receive the correct amount of change.

5. Collecting Your Money

The last thing left to do is to collect your money from your vends. Be sure to do this in a safe and secure environment and then place your money is a safe place.

6. Locking Back Up

Once you lock your machine back up it will run a quick test to make sure everything is in place and ready to go! Simple as that!

Restocking a machine only takes about 15-30 minutes. With such a small commitment of time and effort and a good profit margin it seems like becoming a healthy vending machines operator is a wise business move.

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Top 5 Reasons to Invest in Healthy Vending Machines

June 12, 2011 By admin 2 Comments

Do you have some extra cash lying around? Want to figure out a way to invest it in something safer than the stock market? Well then, here are the top 5 reasons why you should invest in healthy vending machines.

5. Join a Growing and Booming Industry

Over the last few years, traditional vending machines have seen a decrease in profits. It seems as though the new trend is to invest in healthy vending machines. Sales of healthier snacks in general have been on the rise and society is beginning to make a shift towards eating healthier. With more and more schools banning sodas, candy, and other junk food there is no surprise that healthy vending machines are on the rise.\

4. Inform the Public about Nutritional and Healthier Choices

Vending machines are all about choices. You get to choose if you want chips, a drink, some type of bar, or something sweet. With healthy vending machines you can’t go wrong with any of the choices. Each product is carefully selected to ensure that they will provide nutritional information to their consumers. If your healthy vending machine has an LCD screen attached to it, you will be able to showcase different facts about the products to your customers to better inform them to make healthier decisions.

3. Help Fight Obesity and Malnutrition

As I have previously mentioned in my blog, obesity is a HUGE problem today. Providing healthier choices in vending machines, especially in schools, will help fight obesity early on. Hopefully, healthier snacking will lead to eating healthier in general. Also, some healthy vending machine companies even donate a percentage of their profits towards programs that help fight obesity and malnutrition in the United States.

2. Low Maintenance Business

Once you have your healthy vending machines you can just sit back and relax because they require very little maintenance. The main thing you will have to do is make sure that it is stocked with products and reorder products when necessary. The snacks will sell themselves.

And last but not least….

1. Make Money!

After your initial investment the hard part is over. After paying off the product costs and monthly expenses, the rest will be revenue. Consumers are willing to pay more for healthier options so be sure to set your price points slightly higher than traditional vending machine prices. If your healthy vending machines have a LCD screen for advertising you will be making money from that also.

What are you waiting for? Invest now!