SNACK VENDING MACHINE

How I Started Snack Vending Business

Several years ago I was struggling to feed my young family and suddenly had a small amount of money that we wanted to invest in a business so my wife and I decided to try snack vending.  We did online research and talked to other people who had tried the snack vending route business and then we plunked down all of our money and suddenly had a house full of snack vending machines and we needed to get a place to put them so they could start generating all the promised money.  The manufacturer of the machines promised to hook us up with some one who would find locations for all our snack vending machines and so I called and they came to town and for several hundred dollars they found a place for me to put my machines.  However, they were in a hurry and I didn’t know how to evaluate their work and it was not a good deal, they set me up with 6 good locations and about 30 locations that could draw a dollar a month from my snack vending machines.  So I had to work hard to try and find new locations.  I had also purchased a large amount of candy and other snacks that I thought would sell really well and then I found out that many of the products I had purchased weren’t selling and I had snack vending machines full of stale or bad product that I had to throw away.  I had also gotten some gumball machines that had little game that could be played with the gumball that was vended.   However most of the people were interested in placing a machine that would vend snacks like m&ms,peanuts, cashews, skittles, or other handfuls of snacks.

How to Choose a Snack Vending Route

When looking for a potential home for your snack vending stands you need to consider carefully how much human traffic will be there and not traffic that is just passing through, but traffic that is standing and waiting or will be in the area for at least 10 minutes.  Most people can resist the impulse to put a quarter in a machine for about 5 minutes but any longer waiting if they have a quarter many people will pop it in just to keep themselves busy.  So chose a restaurant that has a wait during peak times, a car repair shop where people will be waiting or if you choose healthy items for your snack vending machine a doctors office or chiropractor would be a good place.