Introducing the Fieldstone Bakery Mini Doodles Cookies

Fieldstone® Bakery will introduce new Mini Doodles Cookies to the vending industry in September 2020. This new product is a 1 oz. serving pouch of whole grain…

Introducing Fieldstone Bakery Grains 2 Go Bars

In September 2020, Fieldstone® Bakery will introduce new Grains 2 Go Bars, which is the first time for the brand to offer two grain equivalent bars that meet…

Grubbrr teams with BlueStar to meet commerce automation demand post COVID-19

August 5, 2020

Grubbrr, a commerce automation company, has teamed with with BlueStar, a global distributor of solution-based technologies, to help meet the demand for…

Five Star Food Service promotes Richard Kennedy to president/CEO

August 3, 2020

Richard Kennedy Five Star Food Service Inc., a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based convenience services operation, has promoted Richard Kennedy from chief…

Convenience services posts Q1 growth despite COVID-19

July 20, 2020

The U.S. convenience services industry experienced Q1 growth despite the coronavirus, according to the Convenience Services Industry Impact tool released at…

New virtual summit focuses on innovation, customer experience in self-service, kiosk, vending industries

Networld Media websites, Vending Times and Kiosk Marketplace, are launching a virtual summit that promises to bring attendees the very best in self-service…

Xavier combines self-service with attendants to ensure a safe foodservice operation

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

The university is betting that self-service in combination with manual staffing will provide a sanitary meal experience for students.

Aramark opens automated c-store in Southern California

July 10, 2020

Aramark has opened an autonomous convenience store called QuickEats Close Convenience in an apartment community called Nineteen01 in Santa Ana, California…

AiFi on track to deploy 330 automated stores by 2021

July 6, 2020

AiFi, a provider of an automated, self-service store, is on track to deploy 330 new and retrofitted autonomous stores by the end of 2021, according to a press…

NAMA names Craig Kushner Operator of the Year for second time

July 2, 2020

Craig Kushner The National Automatic Merchandising Association has named Craig Kushner, owner of Monumental Markets in Beltsville, Maryland, as its…

UK operation introduces COVID-19 compliant micro markets

June 30, 2020

Express Vending, a Hertfordshire, U.K. based convenience services operator, has adapted its HUB MicroMarkets to ensure it is COVID-19 compliant, as businesses…

Mobile micro markets bring self-service machines on wheels

June 30, 2020

Carts Blanche LLC has introduced VendaMarts, mobile robotic micro markets that offer fully automated inventories of pre-packaged fresh foods, according to a…

365 Retail Markets adds touchless checkout kiosk

June 24, 2020

365 Retail Markets has added its v5 kiosk as its latest touchless checkout solution, according to the company's website.

Mastercard survey shows global surge in digital payments

June 18, 2020

Mastercard Inc. released a study showing consumers worldwide are using contactless and other digital payments at record levels and moving away from cash due to…

Micro markets’ sanitation case over vending

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

In response to concerns over COVID-19, micro market providers argue that micro markets are actually more sanitary than vending machines.

Impulsify designs unattended retail markets for apartment buildings

June 12, 2020

Impulsify Inc., a retail technology provider, has been contracted to design self-service Grab-and-Go markets for six apartment communities on the East Coast…

Pandemic safety question: Vending machines versus micro markets?

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Are vending machines more sanitary than micro markets because the latter system presents products in open containers, allowing more customers to touch them?

How to answer difficult questions reopening an amusement center

by Kevin Williams

Reopening an amusement center following COVID-19 is challenging on many levels. Customers and employees want to return, but they naturally have some…

Qualifying sales prospects more important post COVID-19; how to prepare

by Amanda Puppo — CEO, MarketReach Inc.

Companies that do their homework about their prospective customers before calling them usually have better results, but in an environment where businesses are…

The imminent kiosk boom in quick-service restaurants

Pre-coronavirus, kiosks were springing up in countries across the world, in the main to provide a faster and more efficient service for customers who wanted…

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