Customized machine fronts and area treatments gain favor as selling tools: improvements in printing technology unleash new options for vending operators looking to dress up their machine fronts; options expand for enhancing the entire vending area.(SPECIAL REPORT)

Automatic Merchandiser,  April, 2005  by Maras, Elliot

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Take a good look at your break areas. Do they look like fun places to visit? Sometimes a bank of plain, dark machines in a room with vinyl floors, sourrounded by laminated counters and metal-framed furniture aren't very exciting. Especially if the people working there have to visit it every day.

It doesn't have to be this way. For the employee, an obvious escape is to go to McDonald's or 7-Eleven; where there is always something new to see, and the meal areas often are colorful, inviting and sometimes

even entertaining.

On the other hand, the vending machine break area can ...

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