Local Business Owner Inspired to Make Community Healthier with Healthy Vending Machines

Fresh Healthy Vending, has launched in Northwest Arkansas through franchise owners Dennis and Carla Laing. The Laings currently have 20 Fresh Healthy Vending machines installed throughout the area, and wish to expand by installing additional machines throughout the area, giving the community the option of healthy, natural snacks and beverages such as smoothies, soymilk, fruit, vegetables, yogurt, granola bars, baked chips and natural sodas.

“These vending machines are a great way to offer healthier food options tailored to their dietary needs,” said Dan Negroni, CEO of Fresh Healthy Vending. “Teaching kids the importance of eating healthfully and prompting them to make more nutritious food choices is something we believe is critical, especially considering the rise in childhood obesity. We are happy to see the community taking the necessary steps to safeguard their children and promote healthful living.”

Laing purchased the vending machine franchise rights from San Diego-based Fresh Healthy Vending, which offers healthier snacks as an alternative to traditional vending machine junk food of sugary drinks and snacks. Inspired to better their own communities, these entrepreneurial franchise owners are dedicated to improving access to healthier snack and beverage options.

“I was disappointed to see the food options available in our local schools,” said Carla Laing. “I want to give children the option of eating healthier, while still maintaining the convenience of a vending machine. Fresh Healthy Vending is the perfect choice, and they have been a big hit among children and schools locally and nationwide.”

The Fresh Healthy Vending machines launching in Northwest Arkansas are some of the 1,700 locations throughout North America, with machines placed in office break rooms, school campuses, shopping malls, hospitals and more.  Locally, the Laings have placed machines in Gentry Public Schools, Fayetteville Public Schools, YMCA of Northwest Arkansas, Boys & Girls Club, and other locations where families spend their time.  In addition to the healthier vending machine snacks and beverages, Fresh Healthy Vending also produces the Fresh Healthy Café, a vending machine that distributes gourmet organic coffee drinks together with their signature healthy snack options.

Our mission at Fresh Healthy Vending is to offer healthy, natural alternatives to junk food–all at the touch of a button.  We specialize in locating and dispensing snacks and drinks that meet the needs of the health conscious, ensuring that our products contain few preservative and dyes, and are, whenever possible, organically produced.

Don’t sit on the sidelines.  The Healthy Vending Revolution is happening now.  Join it!

For more information on becoming a Fresh Healthy Vending franchisee in your area, please visit our website at www.freshvending.com

And if you’re interested in bringing a Fresh Healthy Vending Snack/Drink or Gourmet Coffee Café machine to your community, visit us at www.freshandhealthy.org

Healthy foods and organic eating are in.  We all know that. You would have to be living under a rock to miss all of the stories about soaring obesity rates and the dangers of GMOs. None of that is news to any of us anymore.

The questions you need to ask yourself are: ‘What am I going to do about it?’ and ‘How can I take financial advantage of this while helping others at the same time?’

The answer is Fresh Healthy Vending.

Our mission at Fresh Healthy Vending is to offer healthy, natural alternatives to junk food–all at the touch of a button.  We specialize in locating and dispensing snacks and drinks that meet the needs of the health conscious, ensuring that our products contain few preservative and dyes, and are, whenever possible, organically produced.

How does this affect you?  Simple: Fresh Healthy Vending is looking for entrepreneurs who want to continue the growth of the healthy vending movement.

With over 150 franchisees already on board and more than 1,700 machines placed throughout North America in office break rooms, school campuses, shopping malls, hospitals, and more, Fresh Healthy Vending is the clear leader in the healthy vending industry and is expert in creating profitable vending businesses for franchisees.

Don’t sit on the sidelines.  The Healthy Vending Revolution is happening now.  Join it!

For more information on becoming a Fresh Healthy Vending franchisee in your area, please visit our website at www.freshvending.com

And if you’re interested in bringing a Fresh Healthy Vending Snack/Drink or Gourmet Coffee Café machine to your community, visit us at www.freshandhealthy.org

Imagine having the great-tasting gourmet coffee specialty drinks you love without the long wait or expensive price tag.  Now you can with the latest groundbreaking innovation from Fresh Healthy Vending, the Café!

Fresh Healthy Vending, the first company to create and expand the healthy vending category with their revolutionary products, has done it again with their newest innovation, the Café, inventing the latest trend in the coffee industry: “Automated Baristas.”

Coffee lovers can enjoy the great taste of gourmet French Vanilla Lattes, Cappuccinos, even Espresso, made from freshly ground, organic, fair trade coffee beans and frothed milk at the touch of a button, within seconds and for less than $2 – a far cry in price and time from the typical gourmet specialty drink. With the first-ever gourmet coffee vending machine, the barista is entirely automated, lowering overhead costs and condensing the retail footprint, making it possible to place them virtually anywhere, including supermarkets, car dealerships, malls, and workplaces.

“Why take the time to drive to your corner coffee shop and wait for a barista to create your drink, when you can use a machine that gets your gourmet coffee specialty drink perfect every time at a fraction of the cost?” said Dan Negroni, CEO of Fresh Healthy Vending. “With the Café machines, consumers can grab a quick cup of Joe made with the high quality ingredients they love within seconds.”

In what some are calling the “future of coffee,” the Café machines lead the “automated barista” trend and revolutionized the coffee industry similar to how Redbox changed the movie rental industry, with companies like Coinstar following suit.

In fact, the Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) currently operates similar machines in barracks, training schools and its headquarters’ office building in Virginia Beach.  Upon replacing an old ‘traditional’ coffee machine that had been generating less than $50 per month (with the top-selling product being hot chocolate), the new machine generated more than $400 in the first 10 days.

Fresh Healthy Vending is confident that their Café machines will mean big changes for the way consumers currently get their daily coffee fix, which comes at an opportune time as consumers are spending more than ever on coffee – an average of nearly $1,100 a year on specialty coffee drinks.

In addition to offering high quality, gourmet coffee specialty drinks, the Café machines offer healthy snacks, including granola bars, baked chips, natural sodas, and more.

“The Café machine is essentially a coffee shop in a box, giving consumers all the benefits from their favorite corner coffee shop minus the added costs and wait,” said Negroni.

Fresh Healthy Vending so strongly believes in providing high quality coffee drinks and healthy snacks that we are willing to provide a free Café machine to anyone who qualifies.

Act now to be the first to bring the Fresh Healthy Vending Cafe machine to your location:  Visit our website at www.freshandhealthy.org

For more information on becoming a Fresh Healthy Vending franchisee, please visit us at www.freshvending.com

Does your office have the worst coffee in San Diego County?

We all know the type: that stale coffee-pot coffee in the break room, the cheap, tasteless barely drinkable drudge found in the old dirty vending machine down the hall.  Well, at Fresh Healthy Vending, we believe that’s unacceptable.

Tell us why your workplace’s coffee is the worst in San Diego and you could win a FREE State-of-the-art Fresh Healthy Vending Gourmet Café Machine for your office!

Fresh Healthy Vending, the leading healthy vending machine company in the United States, has launched an online contest that calls for self-submitted entries of San Diego’s worst workplace coffee for a chance to win Fresh Healthy Vending’s gourmet coffee vending machine.

“As any business can attest to, coffee is the lifeblood of the office, which is why it’s crucial that employers offer quality coffee to their employees. We want to help deserving organizations in the San Diego area upgrade their standard kitchen coffee pot and old, burnt coffee to gourmet specialty coffee drinks at the touch of a button,” said Dan Negroni, CEO of Fresh Healthy Vending. “With the average employee drinking 2 cups of coffee a day, employees deserve something fresh and healthy to help them be productive, energized and happy throughout the work day.”

Made with its own specialty blend of fair-trade, organic coffee exclusively made for Fresh Healthy Vending Café machines by San Diego-based Cafe Moto, the machine grinds whole beans, extracts espresso, froths milk and disposes of used grinds in fewer than 40 seconds. Employees can enjoy gourmet coffee specialty drinks like French Vanilla Lattes, Espresso, Cappuccinos and more. In addition, the machine features a selection of healthy, natural snack options, such as yogurts, smoothies, fruit, vegetables, granola bars, baked chips and natural sodas.

“The new line of Fresh Healthy Vending Café machines saves time and money spent going to the corner coffee shop, but still lets employees enjoy the taste and quality of a gourmet cup of coffee,” said Negroni. “It’s the perfect machine to have in offices, hospitals, business parks and more to offer gourmet coffee and a healthy snack within seconds.”

Open to organizations within San Diego County, the contest opens on November 19, 2012 and the winner will be announced on or about February 8, 2013. Entries must include a one-page submission on why their workplace coffee is the worst, and what having a new gourmet coffee vending machine will mean for their employees.

For more information about entering the contest, please visit www.freshandhealthy.org/san-diegos-worst-workplace-coffee/

And if you’re not in the San Diego area, fear not!  Visit us at www.freshandhealthy.org to see if your school or business qualifies for a FREE Fresh Healthy Vending Cafe Machine!

Act now to be the first to bring Fresh Healthy Vending Cafe machines to your community.  Visit our website at www.freshandhealthy.org

For more information on becoming a Fresh Healthy Vending franchisee in your area, please visit our website at www.freshvending.com

A cup or two of coffee doesn’t just give you energy—it might make you a think a little more quickly.

That’s not exactly a shocker, but for coffee drinkers, a new study showing that caffeine can improve verbal processing speed should put a nice perk in your day.

Despite mistaken conventional wisdom that caffeine is a harmful drug, a growing body of research is demonstrating that it can confer a wide range of benefits when consumed in moderation. Within the past year, studies have indicated that caffeine can help improve muscle strength for seniors, delay the onset of Alzheimer’s and reduce the risk of skin cancer.

Now, a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that 200 mg of caffeine—the equivalent of a couple of cups of coffee—can help the brain identify words more quickly and precisely. In a study conducted by psychologists Lars Kuchinke and Vanessa Lux from Ruhr University in Germany, healthy young adults given a 200 mg caffeine tablet exhibited improved speed and accuracy while completing a word recognition task.

Capitalizing on the growing coffee market, Fresh Healthy Vending is selling gourmet coffee vending machines, which includes organic coffee. It’s a part of the company’s new line of healthy snack vending machines, featured in over 1700 locations throughout North America.

These are not your “father’s vending machines”–they are beautiful coffee shops in a box!

“The Fresh Healthy Vending Café machines are perfect for those who want the quality of coffee from a gourmet coffee shop combined with the ease and convenience of making their own coffee or purchasing it from a vending machine,” said Dan Negroni, CEO of Fresh Healthy Vending. “It’s a coffee shop experience in a box.”

The machine grinds whole beans, extracts espresso, froths milk and disposes of used grinds in fewer than 40 seconds, Negroni said. Consumers can order gourmet coffee specialty drinks like French vanilla lattes, espresso and cappuccinos.

Healthy vending machines are a new growth market. Organic coffee is among the fastest growing sectors of the coffee industry and health food is a $30 billion industry, a spokeswoman for Fresh Healthy Vending said.

As for the Verbal Processing study, scientists still have many questions about this effect, and Kuchinke and Lux note the need for further study to understand how it is involved with the dopamine system, frequently associated with reward centers in the brain. But on a practical level? You might consider applying these current findings by drinking a cup of coffee when your thought processes seem a little slow.

If you want to own and develop a successful vending business in the hottest area, our new line of Fresh Healthy Vending Cafe machines are perfect for offices, hospitals, business parks, and more–offering gourmet coffee and healthy snacks within seconds!

Act now to be the first to bring the Fresh Healthy Vending Cafe machine to your location!  Visit our website at www.freshandhealthy.org

For more information on becoming a Fresh Healthy Vending franchisee, visit us at www.freshvending.com