Vending Nutritious Food – Planet Antares Promotions

Although there are several locations with heavy customer traffic, schools have always remained preferred choice for vending operators. There has been some debate on this issue in the recent past mainly due to growing obesity concerns in children. It is quite shocking to know that majority children have fallen prey to obesity.

This has raised alarm in schools and among parents. Vending machines were amongst the first to be blamed for this crisis situation. In order to accommodate changing trends and shift towards healthier vending, operators are advised to dispense only healthy snacks and food items in machines installed in schools. This is quite challenging task as it becomes almost impossible to place both healthy and less healthy items next to each other and encourage students to purchase only healthy food.

How can this be achieved? Customer education is the only option left with vending operators. As obesity is a growing problem, the trend towards healthy vending is not just limited to schools but even expanding towards adults. In case you own a vending business operator, how can you mould this situation to your advantage? The answer is quite simple. Besides offering items, operators need to offer wide assortment of nuts, dried fruit, trail mixes, nutrition bars, yogurt bars, and meal replacement bars, several new introductions are made every month. Low calorie cookies, candy bars and baked black bean chips are also offered for sale.

Healthy food items like healthy cereal, corn flakes, salads and combo meals need to be dispensed in your machine. In fact few schools are introducing soymilk and juice vending machines from Planet Antares as a replacement to junk food machines. Vending machines are even offering vitamins, minerals, trace elements and several other pills in vending packs.

. With more and more customer switching to healthy foods, vending machine operators need to identify new methods for increasing varieties of healthy items in their vending machines.