The future of workplace refreshments: smart technology transforming office vending
Your Refreshment offers market-leading workplace food and beverage solutions. The rise of smart technology has enabled the smart vending machine. Now, your business can provide balanced, healthy and morale-boosting snacks that can help boost productivity and allow your employees to refuel during the day.
The rise of smart vending machines in offices
In today’s hyper-connected world, you might wonder if the humble vending machine really needs to join the internet age. However, the rise of smart vending machines has opened up a world of efficiency and convenience, both for businesses that provide them and the employees that use them.
Smart vending machines, or smart fridges, allow for workplace refreshments to be managed via automated delivery and re-stock, and contactless point of sale. For businesses, they take the hassle out of ordering the items that go inside the machines. For employees, the contactless vending machine adds a level of convenience that matches people’s purchasing habits in today’s smartphone-first, cashless world.
Benefits of smart vending machines for employers
Since the end of the pandemic, many employers have been trying to encourage a wider return to the office. By providing a range of delicious, healthy office snacks, an employer can create a more appealing environment for its workforce.
By prioritising employee wellbeing at work, businesses can increase morale and productivity through the course of the working day. Snacks and drinks are more than just a means of refuelling – they’re a reward for getting a task done, a little treat at lunchtime, or a chance to socialise with colleagues. Your smart vending machines can therefore become an essential means of ensuring employee happiness, and perhaps even play a small role in staff retention.
The easy way to restock workplace refreshments
By harnessing interactive AI vending machine technology, your smart vending machine will become a vital cog in your logistical operations. Your Refreshments vending machines are able to pinpoint when stocks of specific items are running low, or even when items are nearing their expiry dates. They can then automatically place an order for restock before things run out.
Gone are the days when frustrated employees are unable to purchase their favourite snack or drink that they’d been looking forward to all morning. A well-supplied smart vending machine equals a happy, productive workforce.
Trends shaping workplace refreshments
Your Refreshment specialises in the kind of modern, healthy snacks vending machine that are increasingly in demand. Today, more and more people avoid snacks high in fat or sugar such as crisps, chocolate or fizzy drinks, and prefer to refuel with high-energy, low-sugar alternatives.
YouGov estimates that around 2-3% of the UK population now adheres to a vegan lifestyle. This number is likely to rise in future, so it makes sense for employees to cater to this growing trend by offering vegan alternatives for things such as milk and chocolate. As part of the future of vending machines, Your Refreshment has a whole range of vegetarian and vegan options that businesses can offer on their premises, straight from their smart vending machines.
Your Refreshment also provides a wide range of food specifically designed for those with dietary requirements related to their religion or culture. Halal or Kosher foods and beverages are important to provide for a diverse workforce, and Your Refreshment is your ideal partner to help ensure that everyone you employ is catered for.
Offering these kinds of snacks and beverages can contribute to shaping company culture and establishing the kind of business you are. By overtly demonstrating that your business is forward-facing and inclusive of different lifestyle choices, cultures and religions, you can attract a more diverse workforce and ensure that all employees feel welcomed and valued at work.
How your refreshments can help
At Your Refreshments, we don’t just sell vending machines. Your Refreshments is a best-in-class vending service, with customer care and client relationships at the heart of everything we do. Our industry-leading food and drink supply services allow you to provide a wide range of high-quality, cost effective refreshments in your workplace, while our cutting-edge smart technology takes the strain out of resupply for your business.
If you’re ready to embrace the future of workplace refreshments, why not call us on 020 7082 5555, or email sales@yourrefreshments.co.uk to find out how Your Refreshments can help your business? Whether by making food and beverage restock easier, widening your selection of healthy office snacks, or even boosting employee productivity and wellbeing, the smart vending machine revolution is waiting for you.
