The emergence of healthy vending

While the idea of "healthy vending" is nothing new, there's been a significant increase in the number of vendors who aim to provide healthier drink and snack alternatives to their customers. As access to information becomes easier and more data surrounding nutrition is published, customer's today are more health-conscious and aware of the negative consequences associated with unhealthy snacking. In this post, we'll talk through the benefits of choosing healthy vending options for your business.

1.Improves Physical Health

Many of us are aware of the many downsides to unhealthy, sugar-filled, heavily processed snacks and drinks. The risks of poor nutrition include potential weight gain, sluggishness, and increases the likelihood of illness or disease. By intentionally focusing on choosing to provide healthier alternatives to your employees and customers, it can dramatically improve the physical condition of these individuals.

Eating nutritious products not only makes us feel better mentally, but also encourages us to continue down the path of physical improvement. We may start working out more, getting outside more frequently, and pushing the standard by which we carry ourselves. Improving our physical well-being has a DIRECT correlation to our mental well-being, which leads us to our next point.

2.Improves Team Morale & Productivity

There is a clear, distinct relationship between the mind and body. When people eat healthy and are in better physical shape, they become mentally sharper, more energized, more positive and enthusiastic about what they do. Why does this matter for your business? Because at the end of the day, your employees are going to be performing at their optimal levels of productivity and your customers are going to feel excited about doing business with you because they see how you care.

One location we provide service to is a local office building that has a dance studio & gymnastics facility for younger aged children. At this location, we specifically focus on offering healthy snack and drink options for the parents and children, along with the business professionals who work in the building. When parents visit the facility to pick up their child from a gymnastics session, knowing they have healthy options to provide their children increases the level of comfort they have with the facility.

The parents have higher level of trust knowing the products they are giving their children are nutritionally beneficial. While a small detail in the grand scheme of things, nutritional options promote a positive image of your business.

3.Convenient access

One of the things we've noticed is that it’s never easy finding nutritious products, especially if you're on the road or at work. Most times you have to go to a specific market or local store to find the healthy alternatives you're looking for, rarely finding them in common places such as a gas station or even the more traditional vending machines.

When a vendor can provide healthy alternatives that people may only be able to find at a Whole Foods or a local market, that is a massive value add to your business. Employees and customers can go to your facility confident, knowing they have access to the best nutritious products there are to offer in the marketplace. It gets even better if your vendor partners with local food brands and offers these products that may be exclusive and difficult to find.

Furthermore, if you have a responsive vendor who adjusts the product selection based off customer/employee feedback, this increases the personalization and uniqueness of the vending service. All of this contributes to the convenient access to what can be often difficult to find, healthy, nutritious options at your customer's and employee's fingertips.

Conclusion

The topic of healthy nutrition is only becoming more magnified in today's world as people have complete access to any information at any moment. We've seen an increase from our customers in the push to provide healthier alternatives to customers and employees, it's important to keep this in mind as you are going through your search for a vendor.

To recap, the three main benefits for healthy vending we touched on are 1)improvement in physical health, 2)improvement in team morale and productivity, and 3)more convenient access to healthier products that are otherwise difficult to find.

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