History of the Vending Machine - There's More to It Than You Think
History of Convenience Food
After World War II, modern convenience food gained popularity in the United States. A majority of these products started from military developed foods designed for storage longevity and ease of preparation in the battle field. After the war, many commercial food companies were left with surplus manufacturing facilities. These companies came up with new types of canned and freeze dried foods that were intended for use in the home. Some early convenience products were flops and included ham sticks and cheeseburgers-in-a-can. Other convenience foods, such as fish sticks and canned peaches, were quite successful.
What is Convenience Food?
Convenience food is commercially prepared food designed for ease of consumption. Convenience foods are often prepared food items that can be sold as hot, ready-to-eat dishes, as room-temperature, shelfstable products, or as refrigerated or frozen products that require minimal preparation (usually just heating). These products are typically sold in portion controlled, single serve packaging designed for portability for on-the-go eating. Most convenience foods today are loaded with saturated fats, sodium and sugar, and have little nutritional value. One serving of several convenience foods contains a significant portion of the recommended daily allowance of sodium.
Convenient Nourishing Vending Snacks
In today's hustling and bustling society, fewer meals are being consumed within the home. People have less and less point in time to eat because of our increasingly fast paced society. Unlike conventional vending machines and typical vending machines, healthy vending machines offer no junk food whatsoever. All their products have been evaluated extensively based on taste and nutritional value. By bringing health and nutrition products directly to customers, beneficial vending machines are making it simplier and easier to eat more nutritiously and maintain a beneficial lifestyle.
Imagine this: You go grocery shopping when you are really hungry (one of the worst times). You end up purchasing a bunch of food based solely on what you want appropriate at that moment-cookies, donuts, chips, and soda. In other words, you are making impulsive decisions because your stomach is grumbling and you want food now! This is similar to buying junk food from a vending machine at the spur of the moment. You want a snack to satisfy your hunger but wind up choosing some junk that is empty calories which you will later regret eating.
Picture this: Instead you choose something from a wide variety of beneficial products that taste good and make you feel good. You can select a nutritious snack, beverage, or how on the subject of a healthy meal prepared in no time?! Healthy vending machines were designed with you in mind and to help you and your hunger in situations like this.
Healthy vending machines not only offer convenient products-they also have credit card readers to make purchasing from their vending machines as simple as possible. Credit card readers maximize purchasing power and increases spending flexibility by offering cashless payments. Additionally, credit card readers allow for the sale of higher priced items. Since 2003, h.u.m.a.n. healthy vending has been the leader in "convenient nutrition!"
Beneficial Vending Machine Facts:
- Use of vending machines often increases during tough-times because people tend to eat-out less and depend on convenient food more.
- Nourishing vending machines combine today's three hottest market trends-health, convenience and digital advertising-which will continue to boom throughout the foreseeable future.