Manual snack and soda vending machines

[troy]

I intend to put some vending machines in the store. The manual, stacked snack and soda machines are cheap in prices. But I remember sometimes before someone did not like these. Could you tell me your experience of these machines again. Thanks

[Andy]

You will have greater sales with a full size standup machine. Also I suggest selling 20 oz bottles of soda, three years ago I switched from an old can machine to a new bottle machine and I doubled my sales.

[pete f]

I had a small table top manual vender once. It took in a little money, but seems something was always getting stuck. The thing was not really big enough for the stuff to drop right.
You will be far better off with a real snack machine, maybe get a soda/snack combo if you are short on space or funds.

[Todd]

I have an upright manual snack machine that I bolted to the wall the other day. It came with the store where it had been on legs before with an attendant. It has limitations, as Pete said, there is not enough space for many items to drop. It seems to be getting used decently, but I would never buy one on my own. I'd buy a bigegr unit if I had the $.

[Tom Ala.]

I started With The Mecanical Type snack machines and found out the hard way that if they were not right in front of the attendant that a kid with long skinny arms could get all of the snacks off of the the 3 rows in front. Bite the Bullet and buy a good Machine lot of good use stuff on the market.

Tom