The study estimated that statewide, food service operations potentially lose $60 million per year to competitive food sales, from children buying their meals from vending machines rather than from ...

A new vending machine uses facial recognition technology to deny would-be snackers from buying certain foods that don’t fit their personal profile. The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine can be ...

For many people, the vending machine is as much a part of their daily diet as fast food joints. If you must eat from a vending machine, here's how to make smarter choices.

H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending is fighting America's obesity problem with hi-tech vending machines that stock healthier options including low-sugar variants, organic products and gluten-free items ...

Vending machines aren’t just your break from the office anymore. Instead of snacks, they dispense knowledge, in the form of chapbooks, hi-tech gadgets and quizzes, and merge instant ...

If you wanted a bag of Doritos from one of Brad Appelhans' experimental vending machines, you'd have to wait. The associate professor of preventative medicine at Rush University Medical Center ...

Students at Cordill-Mason Elementary in Blue Springs aren’t using their school vending machine to buy snacks. They’re using ...

Owners of local vending machines say that increased costs of basic food commodities and spiraling oil prices are forcing them to raise prices on snacks and drinks by anywhere from 8 percent up to ...

“I eat snacks out of the vending machine a couple times a week – well, maybe almost everyday,” says the 27-year-old investment banker.

All of the vending machines at local parks and on other city properties will be fully stocked with healthy snacks and drinks following City Council direction on Tuesday.