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Prepare Your Vendor For Summer!

It’s hard to make your Vendor exciting sometimes, especially if you are a longtime Vendor to a business.  Here are a few simple tips that involves minimal cost to make your Vendor exciting again to your loyal customers!

Upgrade your vending machine by adding LED light strips.  This is a simple way to illuminate your glass front Vendor and make it attractive to the eye.  A typical life for LED light strip is right around 100,000 hours and they are pre-wired for easy installation.  This is a cost-effective way to instantly brighten up your selling space.

Make your Vendor MDB by putting a compatible, newer bill validator and coin changer.  Wipe down your parts so they can work efficiently when they accept dollars and coins.  Having clean equipment that are free from dust and particles will eliminate the bills from getting stuck.

Give your vending machine a whole new look by wrapping it with artwork!  Take a look at a sample we just recently did for a customer!  You can design your vendor to look like anything you want to attract more sale traffic!

If your vending machine has a live display area, make sure it is clean and attractive and the label is faced correctly.  Remember, nobody likes to buy drinks or snacks out of a dirty vending machine!  You want to make sure your sample displays are clean and shiny!

Change up some products in your vending machine.  Take out items that are not selling.  Ask around the office and find out what your customers would rather see in your Vendor.  Try and accommodate your customers as much as possible and you will see your sales jump this summer.

Good Vending Machine Habits

Once a vendor secures a profitable location, a special relationship starts between the vendor and the business where the vending machine is located. It is up to the vendor to provide quality, consistant service to keep all the potential vending machine users happy for years to come. Here are a few tips for the vendor to build that special relationship!

Make sure you visit your location at least once a week. You want to be consistant with this especially in the beginning of building a relationship with your location. You want them to feel that you are around to ensure that your equipment operates properly every single day.

Take a few minutes to talk to the people that work at your location. Ask them what they would like to see in your vending machine. Make sure someone in that business knows your name and contact information. They need to feel comfortable with their vending person. Building that personal relationship will help them feel confident in purchasing food and drink products from your vending machine.

Always keep your vending machine equipment clean. Wipe down the entire machine before you walk away from it. Your vending machine is your store. It needs to look clean and attractive so it can sell food and drink products for you 24/7.

Being a vendor is so easy that anyone can do it! It’s has been a strong industry for so many decades. Don’t hesitate to look into this business…contact Piranha and get all the secrets to a successful future!

Let’s Do Some Math On Vending!

If you are thinking about getting into the vending business, you need to start by doing some calculations. The greatest thing about becoming a vendor in your area is the flexibility of how involved you want to become. It is possible to be a part time vendor, or a full time vendor. In other words, you can be as small as you want or as big as you want! You are completely in control in how you run your vending business. You can have just one location with one vending machine, or you can service 500 locations with 750 vending machines. It’s all up to you.

It takes an average of 10 minutes to service a location. How many locations can you handle??? Let’s do the math!

If you have 10 locations to service on a weekly basis. You are looking at an average of 1 hour 40 minutes of actual work time. Look at the businesses that you will be servicing and calculate in the driving time and also time to get your vending supplies. On an average, you can run a nice size vending route for just a few hours of work each week!

The vending business is literally great for anyone to get involved. If you are looking to supplement your income, YOU CAN DO THIS! Sit down and draw out your plan!  Give us a call and get ready to invest in a better future with unlimited return!

Different Types of Vending Machine Equipment

The right type of vending machine is crucial to success. Having the right tool to optimize your vending sales means having to choose the right vending machine for what you are trying to offer your consumers. There are a lot of different types of vending machines out there. This article will tell you the most popular types out on the market right now.

Combo vending machines are the most versatile. They hold at least 2 different types of products (ie. snacks/drinks). They are designed for space saving and built to maximize a sale with it’s variety. If a person is going to purchase from a combo vending machine if they are either hungry or thirsty! The newest invention is the best one yet, the deli vendor combo vending machine has the capability of offering consumer a variety of snacks, drinks, and deli items in this compact sleek design.

Cold drink machines are perfect for outdoor spaces.  They are usually built to withstand different temperature changes.  They also have a large capacity and can handles hundreds of sales before servicing is needed by vendor.

Snack machines are so versatile.  They are built to hold many different types of products that range from food to electronic products to books and or even cigarette products.  The coils that hold the vends can be changed to handles different sized products.

You can also be specific and look for the following types of vending machines that would be perfect to target your sales!  Give Piranha a call and we will get you in any type of vending machine that you’re looking for!

Frozen machines

ice cream machines

refrigerated machines

coffee machines

french fry machines

pizza machines

change machines

gumball machines

sticker machines

dvd/cd machines

cotton candy machines

The Battle For Top Vending Machine Sales

What sells better? Canned drinks or bottled drinks?

Canned drinks are cheaper to invest in, and can be found virtually anywhere. A lot of times you can find really good sales within your local grocery stores or super chain markets. Tin cans are durable and are shaped perfectly for easy loading into a vending machine. The variety is also tremendous. Virtually every type of drink is offered in a can drink format. As a vendor, it’s very economical to stock and offer canned drinks to their customers through drink vending machines.

Bottles drinks are popular because they hold more product. This is especially more attractive to the consumer in the summer months when beverages are consumed in bigger quantities. The variety capabilities are there but it is a bigger investment for the vendor to keep bottled drinks in stock.

You are better off as a vendor to offer both canned drinks and bottled drinks in your vending machine. That way, you are pleasing every single person that stops in front of you vending storefront. When investing in vending machines, make sure your drink machines can handle a combination of both canned and bottled drinks!

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