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In Celebration of International Coffee Day – Give Crane Vending a Taste

In Celebration of International Coffee Day – Give Crane Vending a Taste 1800 1200 GAD Vending

Yes, we acknowledge there was a time when the jokes about vending machine coffee were very true. The original coffee vending machines were pretty bad.

But Crane has spent years perfecting their new equipment to give the best baristas a challenge on taste. In are Crane coffee vending machines with bean grinders integrated in the machines for truly fresh ground coffee. Then there is an amazing selection of quality options to create the perfect cup. Choose from a variety of flavors, frothing and sweetening options. Create your perfect cup – and the machine will remember your order for the next time.

These machines are replacing many restaurant, coffee shop and bar baristas as the quality is the same cup after cup.

If you are looking at the coffee station in your breakroom as a constant disaster, replacing the mess with a simple Crane coffee machine could be a simple solution. Or if you cater to a particularly picky coffee crowd, these units can save you time, employees and money to service your crowds.

Start with a free cup of coffee from any of our GAD sales staff. Then order your new coffee station for immediate use from our stock in Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City.

 

 

 

How Vending Operators Can Bring Results

How Vending Operators Can Bring Results 2048 1367 GAD Vending

GAD works with a variety of Vending Operators that service many types of end locations. Part of our job is to help our Vending Operators with their profitability, safety and operational streamlining.

Service at the End Location

Service is the pain point for many of the end location customers. This is especially important for independent operators. Tasked with overseeing everything to do with the equipment, payment and stock levels this can be a big lift for a single operator.

But GAD can help.

Rethinking Vending Management

It is critical to manage your time, your route efficiencies and your profitability. Crane Vending offers Simplifi new software apps to manage your entire business on your smart phone. Set up stock alerts. Machine malfunction. And other alerts to help you be aware of issues before your end location. This helps you stop reacting to being proactive.

Customization is Key

Know your customer. Customize your vending equipment to service the type of customer. You may want a mix use machine that delivers both liquids and snacks. Check out the vendors that deliver full meals. Place a vending machine that dispense products like PPE, cell phone accessories or other high need merchandise.

Use Quality Equipment Reduces Ongoing Costs

Maintenance is key to keeping a quality machine in its best working order. Crane vending machines partnered with GAD Vending parts department keep your machines working 24 hours delivering product.

Machine Placement is Key

Machine placement is key. High traffic areas. Low competition areas like breakrooms. Unique locations like apartment complexes, schools and even convenience stores.

Many customers are looking for self service, securing product and low employee interaction cost. This opens up all new positions for vending machines. High priced products can be secured without employee costs. Small items can be vended easily.

Vending machines aren’t just for candy any more! Vending is an answer for today’s growing demand of retail and consumer expectations.

Want to Provide 24/7 Fresh Food Options? Think Vending

Want to Provide 24/7 Fresh Food Options? Think Vending 786 901 GAD Vending

Why choose Crane’s Shopper Vending Machine?

  • Flexible merchandising options with trays that can be easily configured
  • Refrigerated product compartments with the best air distribution system in the industry
  • Shopper 2 is compatible with coin and cashless payment systems
  • Nine levels, each with 127 mm tall vend doors provide optimum product visibility and sales
  • Individual sales pricing
  • Side-of-drum storage area keeps additional products refrigerated and available for immediate re-stocking
  • Provides around the clock fresh foods, snacks and cold drink vending all in one vending machine

GAD Vending has offices in Des Moines, Kansas City and Omaha. Equipment and parts are available for pick up, shipment or delivery. Service and parts are also located in our offices. Please call us if you need a new vending machine or parts to repair your existing machines.

Crane BevMax Vending

Crane BevMax Vending 723 845 GAD Vending

Looking to increase sales to the people that come through your doors? Want to satisfy the need to deliver soft drinks without employees? Want to reduce shoplifting while increasing profits? Crane Vending BevMax 4 takes cold drinks vending to the Max!

Vending machines aren’t just about delivering a cold drink. Vending machines reduce employee time. Vending machines reduce shop lifting. Vending machines can be managed with a smart phone app for low stock alerts, sales data, etc.

With a fast, smooth product delivery system, Crane’s BevMax delivers.

  • Fast and accurate X-Y product delivery mechanism is able to vend virtually any permutation of cans, PET and glass bottles.
  • Delivery cup smoothly retrieves each vended product with little or no agitation.
  • The system provides total control throughout the vend cycle, eliminating the possibility of product tipping from the tray during or after the vend.
  • Delivery hopper rotates and opens automatically when a product is dispensed into it
  • delivery port is vandal resistant, preventing pilfering from the cabinet.

Features a large, illuminated shopping window. Energy efficiency. Maximum reliability. Increased profitability.

GAD Vending stocks all types of vending machines, payment options and configuration shelving. Parts and service are also available from GAD Vending in and around Omaha, Kansas City and Des Moines. Equipment available for pick up or installation. GAD Vending sells in St. Louis, Sioux City, Kansas City and all of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Call GAD for a full quote today.

About Crane’s Merchant Media Vending Machines

About Crane’s Merchant Media Vending Machines 749 523 GAD Vending

So hard to make vending machines exciting – until you think about the low employee requirements to maintain, clean and stock a machine. With employee shortage rising to a crisis state, how about thinking to automate your snake and drink delivery?

A well stocked vending machine in a great location makes economic sense. And, with the new automated management tools, it’s easier than ever to see what products are selling. Get low stock alerts. Add smart phone ordering and payment options. And monitor for out-of-change or jams. And, helps eliminate the quick theft problem.

Consider a vending machine at your store check out counter for quick soda sales while people are in line. Put a vending machine at the front entrance to check customers coming and going. Put a vending machine in the break room, lunch area or employee rest area.

Crane’s Merchant Media vending machines are in stock at GAD Vending in Omaha, Kansas City and Des Moines. We stock the machines, configuration racks, money handlers, and repair parts.

Barrista Style Coffee from a Crane Vending Machine? Take a taste test

Barrista Style Coffee from a Crane Vending Machine? Take a taste test 654 691 GAD Vending

Seriously great coffee! And many places are turning to Crane to provide fresh ground coffee drinks to their customers (and you don’t know it!)

If you have a highly particular clientele or just looking to add an update to your breakroom, Crane has coffee vending machines designed for you.

GAD stocks Crane vending machines for immediate delivery in the areas around Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City. Tell us what you are looking for and we’ll get you the right coffee solution. We’ll even give you a taste test from a Crane vending machine…

Where Do You See Vending Machines?

Where Do You See Vending Machines? 1800 1200 GAD Vending

Where do you see vending machines? Everywhere!

Sometimes we walk right by without thinking but so many times we run up and think “thank goodness”. That’s where the perfect placement of a vending machine rocks. And, with Crane vending + GAD, there are lots of ways we can create a positive vending experience.

  • A big success metric to vending is foot traffic.
  • Add exciting graphics.
  • Promote product mix with ad graphics on the digital display.
  • Allow customers to use touchless payment methods or cash.
  • Regular customers can be sent messaging of a special or a new product.
  • Keep your vending machine in good repair with regular maintenance and set up alerts if there is a problem.
  • Tie it all together with Crane’s comprehensive remote management systems.

So, where do you see vending machines? Office, warehouse, breakroom, hospital waiting rooms, cafeterias, café, shopping malls, sporting venues, concerts – anywhere and everywhere people are.

Why Choose Crane’s Merchant Ambient Media 2 Vending Machine?

Why Choose Crane’s Merchant Ambient Media 2 Vending Machine? 680 669 GAD Vending

MERCHANT AMBIENT MEDIA 2

Offer more selections and flexibility for enhanced non-refrigerated, glass-front merchandising value with Merchant MEDIA 2 Ambient!

  • Add on touchless, digital payment systems.
  • Control inventory levels and get low stock alerts.
  • Vend a wide selection of snacks, candies and other goodies.

Why Choose Crane?

  • One Platform
  • Focus on Innovation and Connectivity
  • Superior User Experience and Interface
  • Global Company, Local Support
  • Sustainability is at the Core of the Business

Why Choose GAD Vending?

  • Authorized Crane Vending Dealer
  • GAD has vending machines in stock
  • GAD stocks parts to reconfigure or repair vending machines
  • GAD service techs are highly trained and experienced in repairs
  • Service technicians are available by phone to troubleshoot
  • Servicing Nebraska, Iowa and around Kansas City

Automate Your Coffee Delivery for International Coffee Day

Automate Your Coffee Delivery for International Coffee Day 855 687 GAD Vending

Consistently delicious coffee doesn’t happen by accident. It takes experience to farm quality beans that bring the origin, the land and unique flavor profile to the cup.

Quality is not just one particular thing, but a whole chain of events that takes place to get coffee from the farm into your cup.

Crane Vending has more than 90 years’ experience designing premium coffee machines that deliver the taste profile you would expect from the best coffee shops around the world.

We have the best-in-class brewers and grinders to ensure superb drink quality and a patented mixing system that whips the drink to create Crane’s signature coffee. These are the reasons customers around the globe choose our premium coffee machines.

Back at the Office to a COMMON Coffee Pot? Gross. Try a Crane Coffee Vending Machine. Really? You’ll Love it!

Back at the Office to a COMMON Coffee Pot? Gross. Try a Crane Coffee Vending Machine. Really? You’ll Love it! 389 651 GAD Vending

Common coffee stations – with all the pots, creamers and sugars – is a single germy touch point of employees all day. And, let’s admit it, you didn’t miss the gross coffee station during COVID.

There is a simple solution. Get your breakroom a Crane coffee vending machine. If you don’t believe us – ask your GAD Vending rep to bring you a cup of coffee.

 

COTI FREESTANDING COFFEE VENDING MACHINE

Build a modern, hygienic coffee experience with the COTI free-standing coffee vending machine. With a large touchscreen and custom user interface, operators can engage users with a broad menu of fresh brew coffee beverages, while maintaining commonality with legacy vending machines for ease of servicing and cleaning.

  • 21” Full capacity touchscreen, with ADA compliance mode, to actively engage users
  • Extensive drink menus offering a variety of coffee, espresso, and tea drinks enabling operators to increase drink prices for higher ROI
  • Customizable beverage options with “Save my Drink” option to encourage return users
  • Reduced maintenance costs with 15-50% reduced cleaning time compared to competition
  • Flexible user interface allows operators to customize drink menu, drink names, and screen content and images, plus enable full HD video content
  • Integrates with other Crane Machines to provide a customizable, streamlined food and beverage portfolio experience

Looking at everything in the office to create a COVID free environment? Get rid of the manual pod machine. No more coffee pots that someone has to fill, clean and sanitize. And, you can get rid of all the common condiments – gone is the old creamers, sugar and powdered drink mixes. Gone is sanitizing the common break room counter between every cup of coffee from the pot. Gone is the unproductive morning coffee runs to some expensive coffee shop.

GAD Vending sells Crane COTI hot beverage vending machines in Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. Call us to try a cup from a Crane COTI vending machine.