Vending Machine Dreams

[Chris Amirault]

About to spend a day in hospital waiting rooms and other public spaces, I'm wondering about what sort of goodies will tempt me in the vending machines. As this is the US, not Japan, my hopes are low; if I can find a bag of SmartFood (cheesy popcorn) or Nutter Butter cookies, I will be content. Now, if I were in Tokyo....

When you are heading towards a vending machine, what do you hope you'll spy there?

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[Jenni]

A soft drink that isn't coca cola/pepsi/other major brand. Would love to see some Fentimans or something like that.

[Lisa Shock]

When I toured NBC studios in beautiful downtown Burbank there was a vending machine with fresh apples in it, nice large crisp fresh ones. My dream would be an all fruit vending machine.

[Lindacakes]

Mrs. Freshley's Red Velvet Cakes.

Lance peanut block.

Edited March 28, 2011 by Lindacakes (log)

[natasha1270]

Haven't been to the vending machines at work in a while but I used to crave gardettos. Another guilty vending machine pleasure would be the cheddar ruffles potato chips.

[Jeffery C]

I am not around vending machines very often, but the last time I was I indulged in a Snickers.

[toolprincess]

I usually go for the Lance Peanut butter and cheese crackers. Mostly b/c they are filling, taste good and are generally cheaper than a bag of chips. For chocolate my go to would be peanut m&m's

[HungryC]

Pretzels are my vending machine go-to, but that's 'cause I carry little foil packets of Justin's chocolate almond butter. Squeeze a little on a pretzel, and it's almost worth eating. I like it when I find ginger ale in drink machines. It almost never happens.

[lancastermike]

Tastykakes

[jsmeeker]

Beer. Or wine.

[andiesenji]

Is this something you envision?

Or this?

A friend's son, who recently graduated from Northwestern, recently started working for this company as a traveling rep.

They are placing them in upscale malls, colleges, large game arcades and etc., possibly hospitals.

They are in what must be considered a "niche" market so as yet do not have wide distribution but folks, such as my friend, are spreading the word to people who might be interested. (She worked in the hospitality/hotel industry for thirty years so has a lot of contacts.)

I have to confess that I printed out the info from the web page and gave it to one of my local friends who works in management at the local mall. They do have a food court but it is a long, long trek from one end of the mall to there and on weekends, when the multiplex theater - across from the food court, is going full tilt, it is time consuming to stand in line and then find a table. They do have a few "basic" vending machines but I thought this would be a great addition.

Edited March 28, 2011 by andiesenji (log)

[onrushpam]

We have an ice cream treat machine at my office. I've never bought anything from it, but I've been tempted. I have steered away, because everything in it is huge and I can't eat that much ice cream/cookie/chocolate/whatever all at once.