North America leads the market due to widespread adoption of automated retail technologies and advanced payment systems.

Traveling through airports can often mean limited food choices, with quick-service chains, overpriced sit-down restaurants, ...

Taken together, the vending stories of 2025, and the outlook for 2026, suggest an industry that is steadily redefining its ...

Fresh food vending machines are devices that are installed in schools, hospitals, hotels, workplaces, airports, and other public places for dispensing products such as food products and beverages.

When I first saw Farmer’s Fridge at the airport, I’ll admit I was skeptical. The idea of a fresh salad from a vending machine didn’t seem right. But after I tried it, I was sold on the idea of healthy ...

When Luke Saunders came up with the novel idea to sell salads from a vending machine 12 years ago, it was so far out of the ...

An unusual vending machine quietly appeared in San Francisco this week, stocked not with commodity snacks but bags of handmade pasta, from mafaldine to chicken-prosciutto tortellini; fresh pesto and ...