Are you a vending machine business owner? Are you considering starting a soda vending machine business? Indeed, this is one of the lucrative ways to generate stable, repeat income that requires little maintenance.
If you are seriously looking into getting started, it will behoove you to look into the modern soda vending trends.
To this day, and increasingly so, people in the USA are getting their drinks, especially the refreshments, served by vending machines.
Why? Well, just think of our schools, colleges, sport clubs, theaters and other venues.
Vending machines simply represent the fastest and most cost effective solution for a thirsty person.
What are the modern soda vending trends? We'll talk about four stages of a trend that are happening in the soda vending industry today.
They are the sugar/high fructose sodas stage, the diet drinks stage, the healthier juices stage and the Stevia sweetener stage.
When you are done reading, you will have a better idea in what to look for to fill up your soda vending machines with, to keep your profits, and to help your customers maintain good health.
The sugary soda drinks The sugary drinks such as the colas, and the ginger ale, or root beer don't even come packed with sugar anymore.
Equally bad for your cardio-vascular system, only more addictive, are the high fructose corn syrups that play a major role of the sweetener in modern, "sugary" sodas.
These are still highly popular and much of the reason for the popularity are the well-known hundred year old brands that stand behind such drinks.
The old habits die slow.
But people are waking up to saying no to the sugary drinks.
The next stage is the "sugar free" sodas.
Sugar-free or diet soda vending machine drinks Any vending machine nowadays must carry the sugar-free variety of sodas to appeal to the "health conscious" crowd that understand that stuffing sugar or high fructose corn syrup into their veins causes just too violent the chemical reactions to be of much good.
So the people request "sugar free" substitutes.
The "diet" sodas are mostly based on calorie free sugar substitutes such as Aspartame and Splenda.
While these won't create a havoc in your veins right away, they, too are not innocent.
Scientific studies show that these artificially designed chemicals have unwanted side effects in humans, and that one should limit consumption of artificial sweetener based soda drinks.
So what else is there? Fruit juices That is an alternative to sugary sodas and artificial sweeteners.
Sure it is more healthy to drink a natural juice than a soda, and many soda vending machines are allowing more room for these.
But these fruit juices still contain sugar.
What else is there? Stevia-based drinks Stevia is a thousand-years old natural sweetener that has zero calories.
It has been "tested" to have no undesirable side effects by millennia of use by "primitive" cultures.
Stevia is an extremely potent liquid.
Just a few drops will sweeten any drink a lot.
In fact, various "versions" of this natural sweetener are being prepared for massive distribution as we speak.
So consider Stevia-based sodas, and juices for your vending machines.
You will do your customers a big, healthy favor.