09.01.04
Canteen Vending Services, one of North America’s largest vending machine operators, [has made plans] to install hundreds of machines with 100% better-for-you food choices in 11 cities—including New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. It expects to install at least 7500 such machines in dozens of cities in the next five years. Among the nutrition-conscious items to be added: fresh melon and berry fruit cups, turkey and reduced-fat Swiss cheese wraps, granola bars, vitamin-enhanced water and even vitamin packs. At the same time, the company is making at least 15% of the items in all 160,000 of its traditional vending machines more nutritious products. Just five years ago, that percentage was about 2%.
—Bruce Horovitz, USA Today, 7/6/04
—Bruce Horovitz, USA Today, 7/6/04