Buckle in, travelers, we're cranking open the neon-humming door of the Takeout Time Machine. Its buttons are sticky with soda pop syrup, and inside it hums the faint, sugary static of days gone by.

Vending machines are becoming a strong channel for delivering those “better for you” food options in corporate offices, ...

BENSALEM, Pa. — Forget the clanging of coins. It’s more the sounds of silence at the vending machines in area schools these days. Many students aren’t buying the healthy snacks, fruit juices and water ...

Before there was a Starbucks on every corner, time-crunched Americans could get a quick caffeine fix straight from their office vending machines. But nowadays, coffee vending machines offering piping ...

Students with late-night hunger pangs will soon be experiencing a much healthier array of snacks in their dormitory vending machines. Freshman Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senator Diler Erdengiz ...

A recall has been issued for a popular brand of vending machine chicken salad sandwiches because the items contain an undeclared milk allergen. Cromer Food Services Inc. has announced a recall of all ...

A strange new spin on the vending machine has cropped up in the city of Grenoble: instead of dispensing soda and snacks, these sleek orange and black machines print out free short stories. Conceived ...

A Massachusetts elementary school is turning to automated retail to boost literacy, swapping traditional snack dispensing for a machine stocked entirely with reading material.