Address Food Deserts
Description
Address food access challenges in underserved communities quickly and cost-effectively. Cellular connectivity allows for rapid deployments even in rural areas with challenging infrastructure. Detailed, up-to-the-second inventory and dispense data helps you report on, audit, and more effectively meet your ESG commitments.
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Benefits
- Community service
- Food access improvement
- ESG goal fulfillment
- Social impact measurement
- Brand reputation enhancement
- Public health contribution
- Positive PR generation
- Community engagement
- New market penetration
- Sustainability reporting
Features
- Remote Management: You can manage your machines remotely from any computer, phone, or tablet. Pull sales reports, check inventory, and run your whole vending operation.
- Expiration Dates and Food Safety: Receive alerts on soon-to-expire inventory, and rest easy that no customer can ever purchase an expired item.
- Item-Level Tracking: We know every item you've put into a machine, who loaded it and when, and when it gets sold. This gives you unprecendented visibiilty and control (that Applestone's competitors don't offer!)
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Recommended Machines
- Large Capacity Refrigerated Machine: From our friends at DMVI, an absolute powerhouse of a refrigerated machine with an elevator dispensing mechanism and both pusher and spiral dispensing options. A favorite of our butcher shop clients, it's rugged, ready for custom wrapping, and can hold up to 200 1-lb packs of ground beef.
- Refrigerator/Freezer Locker (10 Cell): This model can operate at ambient, refrigerated, or frozen temperatures. It's modular design consists of a control towner and as many 10-cell "adders" as you like. Applestone's softwre allows customers to pick up their orders with a QR code.
- Frozen Food/Ice Cream Vending Machine: A large-capacity vending machine for frozen meat, fish, ice cream, prepared foods, and of course ice cubes and ice packs. Adjustable shelf widths and heights allow you to offer products of different sizes and shapes and find your ideal product mix.
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Address food access challenges in underserved communities quickly and cost-effectively. Cellular connectivity allows for rapid deployments even in rural areas with challenging infrastructure. Detailed, up-to-the-second inventory and dispense data helps you report on, audit, and more effectively meet your ESG commitments.
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