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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Office-Deli for office vending requirement

Employee costs have increased and recession has cut down the profit margins. At this time, every business needs a dedicated workforce performing to their maximum capacity. Maximum time of employees should be spent on work. To refresh themselves, employees take refreshment / lunch breaks and in absence of availability of snacks, drinks and other refreshment products in office, employees have to go a long way to procure them. As a result time that can be productive for employees is lost. Just to calculate, if everyone in an office of 100 employees takes 15 minutes extra break each day, in one month (22 days working) the organization loses on 550 man hours. That is quite a lot of time and money to be lost.

Planet Antares Inc’s remarkable innovation – Office Deli is the answer to all office refreshment needs. Office Deli is Patent Pending product of Planet Antares, which combines various types of vending machines in to one. With Office Deli refreshment center, you can provide wide variety of products to employees. As you can stock wide variety of products, your employees can procure refreshment products in their office itself and will not have to go out. Not only you will save money with increased time spent on work by employees, your employees will also be motivated to give the best results.

Office Deli is a remarkable innovation and is spearheading the vending revolution. Planet Antares with experience of more than 20 years in vending industry has devised a complete solution for office vending needs in form of Office Deli. You can stock snacks like candies, energy bars, popcorn, chips, nuts and pretzels. At the same time you can provide drinks like Pepsi, Red Bull, and Gatorade, Iced coffee (bottled), juices and water. Office deli also allows you to provide complete lunch to employees.

To procure an Office Deli refreshment center, just contact Planet Antares Inc.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Influence of Customer Attitude on Vending Products

With advancement in technology, wide variety has been offered in Automatic Merchandising industry. Vending operators are happy because of the progress made by their business and at the same time customers are more than satisfied.

Customers have totally different expectations when it comes to buying products from vending machines. Vending is a customer oriented business and it is very important that the operator understands the requirements of his target audience. There are few customers who remark that the price or products vended are much higher that those available in the local stores. This is however not true.

There are few more customers who say that poor quality products are offered in vending machines. This is a real challenge for vending operators. In order to ensure that their business becomes a huge success, operators should build confidence in the minds of customers and change their view point completely favouring them.

Operators should efficiently deal with such queries and resolve myths related to vending business. They need to educate and make customers believe that the best quality of food is vended in their machines and that retail prices are in no way less that those found in vending machines. This is only possible when awareness is created in customers about the cheaper rates of vending products.

Today’s customers are not willing to compromise on the quality of products or services they purchase. In fact, they are even willing to spend little more in order to enjoy the benefits of high quality products. This credit goes to the stiff competition among the existing food service channels.

Every operator has to offer the best quality of products and services to sustain the competition and create good will among customers. Satisfied customers can be retained for a life time. This is the key to success for any business.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Basics for a new vending business owner

Vending Industry is getting competitive by the day. With more and more people being drawn into the vending business, it is essential for new entrants to be ready to face competition. Gone are the days when you could find just one vending machine in the whole market. Today the competition is so high that you can find attractive and stylish looking vending machine at almost every corner.

It is important that new vending operators understand that today people will not keep buying from your vending machine unless you offer them good service and offer some frosting on the cake. You will have to find ways to lure customers. Let us discuss some points which are essential for your vending business to be successful.

1. Choose your vending manufacturer very intelligently. Research and then select which machine will be the best for you. Planet Antares is one of the most trusted manufacturer and they offer you advice on various aspects of vending business.

2. Choice of location is another point that is very important while starting your vending business. Take help of experts and use your own logic to make this decision as this can be the most important decision which would decide the success or failure of your business

3. If you are a new business owner, it is advised to stock branded products in your machine. These brands are already popular amongst people and you will not need to market them.

4. Keep your machines clean and maintain them regularly so that the users experience is always good. This will enable them to trust your machine and will return back.

5. Keep a track on inventory and keep your machine stocked. Customers do not like to go empty handed from a vending machine.

There are many other points that are as important as these but these are basic things which you cannot afford to forget if you are in vending business.

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