Red Bull vending machines good investment?

[daveymck]

Looks like from that you have to put in the locations they are telling you or that you select from their options. Send off or the information and if its a glossy and fact free as this I would give it a miss.

[Blarg]

I don't know about selling only red bull, but I met a guy who put soda machines in office buildings. He started up with very little capital and just kept adding machines, and said it very quickly wound up being really profitable. There's always another office somewhere, and management squirts hot monkey love on the idea of making a buck back from their employees.

Service is important though. If they call you up to say they're out of coke, you better get off your ass, or have your employee get off his ass, in a day or two at most, or you're useless. People want their sodas right away, and if they have to interrupt their work to leave the buildihg to track one down instead of getting it in the lunchroom right away, your bad service is basically impossible to forget.

So you have to have either good and totally reliable employees or do it yourself. It's not a tough business to maintain, but it's the wrong business to be half-assed in. Clients don't turnover often, but you can sometimes lose business and/or get replaced real fast if you're the kind of dude who substitutes excuses for performance. At least in the kind of hard-ass offices I've worked in.

[tinga81]

The only way this is going to work is if you put a Jagermeister vending machine next to it.

[tonypaladino]

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Did you guys ever think about vending machines in really cold places? If it gets below freezing during the winter, they have to heat the pop, as well as cool it during the summer.

It's like a thermos; keeps cold things cold, keeps hot things hot. How does it know?

Freakin

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Normal vending machines do not have heat functions. Have you seen this? Maybe they are made specially for cold areas, but why the hell would you have an outdoor machine in a cold area?

[Freakin]

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Did you guys ever think about vending machines in really cold places? If it gets below freezing during the winter, they have to heat the pop, as well as cool it during the summer.

It's like a thermos; keeps cold things cold, keeps hot things hot. How does it know?

Freakin

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Normal vending machines do not have heat functions. Have you seen this? Maybe they are made specially for cold areas, but why the hell would you have an outdoor machine in a cold area?

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I guess I just assumed....

Surely places like Chicago that are hot in the summer and cold in the winter don't just empty out all the vending machines by the pool!? What will the swimmers drink?


Freakin

[tek]

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but why the hell would you have an outdoor machine in a cold area?

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I live in Minnesnowta and wonder the same thing. We have machines out all year, but who wants a cold drink when it's -10 [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[Bubu]

Vending machines in Japan serve warm drinks in winter (eg hot can of tea or cocoa) and cold drinks in summer. kicks Ass.
(plus they never steal your money !)