There's just something iconic about seeing a Coca-Cola machine in the wild these days. The machines were practically a staple of every business, gas station, and school cafeteria from the early 1980s ...

It occupies just 12 square feet of space and is stocked with pasta bowls, wrap sandwiches, Greek yogurt with fruit, and salads packaged in recyclable jars. These wholesome dishes are dispensed from a ...

(Bloomberg)—The biggest advantage of a vending machine has always been convenience. The vast majority of the 4 million that dot cafeterias and corridors across the U.S. provide the shortest path ...

Samantha Lande has written about food and nutrition for over a decade. Her food and wellness writing has appeared in Food & Wine, Food Network, Real Simple, AARP, Epicurious, Good Housekeeping, ...

Farmer’s Fridge, a vending machine startup selling plastic jars of fresh food like salads and wraps instead of the usual candy and soda, experienced the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in stages. First, ...

Farmer’s Fridge, the Chicago-based company that sells salads out of vending machines, plans to add another 200 locations in the coming year, expanding into Milwaukee and potentially other Midwest ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Vending machines don't usually offer healthy meals, but for the last seven years, Farmer's Fridge has been doing just that, selling its salads and bowls in clear jars from ...

When Luke Saunders came up with the novel idea to sell salads from a vending machine 12 years ago, it was so far out of the box that he had to invent a new one. Believing that fast food should be ...