Step 1: The room decides
Pick the format
Four formats, and the buildings each one belongs in.
A combo machine handles snacks and drinks in one footprint and covers most first placements well. A chilled unit earns where there is a genuine lunch crowd and nowhere close to buy lunch. A micro market replaces the machine entirely, and needs a building with enough traffic and enough trust to justify an open store. Coffee service is small, cheap to add, and earns quietly beside any of them.
- Combo — snacks and drinks in one footprint; the usual first machine
- Chilled — fresh food and grab-and-go where a lunch crowd is stuck in the building
- Micro market — an open store for high-traffic buildings that can support one
- Coffee — a low-cost add-on beside an existing placement