No doubt you have been approached by a customer at some
point about the products in your full size or table
top snack machines. The comments are primarily focused
upon a concern with vending related food product choices.
The current trend of offering lower fat, no fat, or
reduced calorie food requires that you stay ahead of
the curve by not only offering a balance in your machines
but also an offer information about those products.
To gather alot of the information for your product
planograms visit the Calorie
King site. Calorie King has thousands of products
in their database. Search by name or product type. The
results of your searches could potentially be placed
on or near your machine.
Utilizing your Vendline Planogram Tool you can not
only project sales by product or product line, but also
you can generate statistical reports on the 'caloric
balance' on your selection of products. In your planogram
you will enter the data from the Calorie King site by
product. With the planogram drawing is the statistical
data on the food calories within the machine.
Vending Scams
- Buyer Beware - You Can't Cheat An Honest Man
If
you are interested in the vending business, or, you are
a current operator who wishes to expand your business,
watch out for the "to good to be true" opportunity.
As we are all aware there are hundreds of articles about
vending scams on the internet. Yet every day we see news
alerts or read articles about people who have been caught
up in some type of scam and have lost hundreds or thousands
of dollars.
If you open up your newspaper today, no matter where you
live, you can find some 800 number advertisements for
the "All Cash Business", or "Established
routes" for sale. Make thousands of dollars per month!
Sounds good. Good for the sleaze on the other end of the
line.
Read our Consumers page before
you commit to anything. Use our Route Manager tools to
evaluate the sales per machine. Remember your labor is
not free! Remember licensing, permits, insurance, State
sales tax, estimated federal taxes, gas, auto insurance,
liability insurance, and remember most of all COMPETITION
who will do anything to insure your failure.
Vendline Tools
Look
under the Route Manager Links to find
a couple of new tools.
Calculate the gross margin for either
a canned soda vendor or a single head
bulk machine.
Being creative you can also use the
tools for estimates, scenario testing,
for one or multiple like machines
Can
Vendor. Calculate the Gross
Margin of a standard can vendor.
Use this tool to calculate the Gross
Margin on one machine or a route
of like machines.
Bulk
Vendor. Calculate the Gross
Margin of a bulk vendor. Expand
the calculation to a location calculation
by summing the entries.
Contract
Generator. Generate your own
contracts with this handy tool.
Simply plug in your data and you
have a contract for your new location.
Vending
Contracts
Vendline
now allows you the ability to generate
your own vending contracts online
with our exclusive Contract Generator.
Simply fill out the fields, click
the button and a printable contract
is generated.
The contract is generic and is designed
for you to enter contract specific
information.
Attend
a vending trade show and you will be
amazed at the number of products, machines,
equipment, and allied products on the
market. You attendance will guarantee
that you will come away with a laundry
list of wants and needs for your business.
Attending trade shows, expositions,
is important to your vending business.
By attending a trade show you can
keep up with the latest trends in
product offerings, review the benefits
of the latest technology, network
with vendors and suppliers, and ultimately
become the most efficient vending
business in your market.
View a listing
of various vending related trade shows,
events, or expositions.
Consumers
Beware
The Vending Industry
is rife with false information directed
at individuals who are interested in
a Vending Business Opportunity. Look
at the Scam Watch page to view input
from users.
Vendline has accumulated a number
of links to consumer groups. A collection
of those links can be seen by visiting
the Consumer Pages.
You have heard it
a million times. You should belong to
a professional vending organization.
There are many reasons to take advantage
of the opportunity to network with other
vendors. These are people who have faced
the same situations as you in their
own business. You could say that at
any given point during a convention,
meeting, or show there are literally
hundreds of years of experience ready
to be tapped.
If
you are interested in the vending business, or, you are
a current operator who wishes to expand your business,
watch out for the "to good to be true" opportunity.
As we are all aware there are hundreds of articles about
vending scams on the internet. Yet every day we see news
alerts or read articles about people who have been caught
up in some type of scam and have lost hundreds or thousands
of dollars.
Look
under the Route Manager Links to find
a couple of new tools.
