Welcome!

Thursday, April 23, 2009 by admin.

Welcome to the new Healthy Vending Blog!

I got started in the vending business with one machine while I was still in high school, and have subsequently grown Courtesy Vending to be become one of the largest vendors in our market all the while continuing my education.

People keep asking me, “What is someone with a Ph.D. doing in the vending business?”  It’s a tough question to answer on the surface because clearly no degree of any level is required to run a vending company. Yet, having the educational background has no doubt allowed me to build not only a successful company, but also provide the laboratory to conduct tests and trials and learn more on consumer behavior as well as the business itself.

Along the way, I have become somewhat an “expert” on healthy vending to the point where many of the inquiries on our company website are no longer from prospects, but from other people looking to get information! I decided to create this blog to share some knowledge and help feed that thirst for information. It’s interesting that even though vending is over a $22 billion industry, searching the Internet for healthy vending issues does not yield much useful results.

Today, the momentum on “healthier” vending is building. Vending operators can no longer dismiss the talks of healthy vending as yet another fad. Those that respond well will thrive. Those that fail to respond or continue to resist the movement will find themselves in a perilous position. As Charles Darwin eloquently stated, it is not the strongest species that survive, but the ones that best adapt to change.

This blog is aimed not only at the vending operator, but also to the worksites and employers, vending patrons, community advocates, product manufacturers, brokers, schools, local governments, and everyone interested in transforming “junk food” vending machines into machines that provide healthier choices as well.

I will try to stay current and post new information, new links, new products, and more as I come across it. At the same time, I will use this medium to answer questions people may have. If you do have a question, please send it to me at paresh@35-10-35.com and I will do a post to answer your question!

Sincerely,
Paresh K. Patel, Ph.D.

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