Farmer’s Fridge, the Chicago-based company that sells salads out of vending machines, plans to add another 200 locations in the coming year, expanding into Milwaukee and potentially other Midwest ...

In 2013, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo set aside $2 million for a marketing campaign known as Taste NY, as well as a $60 million tourism initiative called “I Love NY.” As part of the initiative, ...

Dinner from a vending machine usually evokes images of chips, cookies, frozen burritos, and other junk food. But if Farmer's Fridge has its way, meals from a vending machine could mean organic meats ...

Vending machines famously dispense junk food–candy, chips, soda, prepackaged baked goods. Why shouldn’t they be instead make healthy items accessible? That’s the thinking behind Peter-und-Paul-Hof’s ...

“We call it a fridge,” he said. “OK, so for the first seven or eight years, I actually really pushed back on calling it a vending machine because to me it was restaurant-quality food, and the idea of ...

The machine also isn’t your standard combination of metal, glass and black plastic. Recycled barn week encases the kiosk and rather than an awkward push-button system of letters and numbers, users ...