Workplaces already on free vending.

Office tenancies are the most common placement we make, and the most affected by hybrid attendance. The sites that work best are those with a genuine midweek peak and a kitchen or break-out area on a walked route — beside a lift lobby, on the way to a meeting room, next to the coffee machine. Product mix here leans to sparkling water, better coffee, premium chocolate and protein snacks, with a strong 2pm to 4pm buying window.

The most common reason an office asks for a machine is not snacking. It is that the nearest café closes at 3pm, and the alternative is a twenty-minute round trip that repeats itself across a floor of people every afternoon.

Industrial sites are the strongest performers per person on site. Early starts, physical work and limited nearby retail combine into consistent, predictable volume weighted heavily to cold drinks, energy drinks and substantial savoury food. Machines go into crib rooms and near workshop entries, and are specified for environments that are not air-conditioned.

These sites also benefit most from cashless payment. Nobody on a forklift is carrying coins, and removing cash from a workshop removes a small but real security and reconciliation problem.

Hospitals, clinics and aged-care sites need genuine 24-hour reliability and quiet operation, and buy real food far more than confectionery. Schools and campuses often need a compliant healthier-choice planogram with sugary drinks removed. Gyms and fitness sites run cold drinks, electrolytes and protein almost exclusively, with a sharp pre- and post-session peak. Licensed venues and hospitality use machines to take load off a bar or bistro at the exact moments those service points are busiest.

Each of these gets a different machine and a different planogram. The one constant is the commercial arrangement: nothing to buy, nothing to rent, nothing to service, and free removal if it stops working for the site.

Across every segment, the sites that succeed share three characteristics. They have around 30 or more people on site on a normal day. They have a visible position on a route people already walk. And they have someone internally who is happy for the machine to be there — not because we need anything from them, but because a machine hidden in a store room by a reluctant host never gets used.

That is the whole qualification. There is no industry we exclude, no minimum term to sign, and no cost at any point.