New Year’s Resolution: Keeping your vending machines cleaner

  How to Clean Your Crane Vending Machine: Daily Cleaning and Disinfecting As a distributor of Crane Merchandising Vending machines, we’ve learned how to clean, repair and maintain vending machines. Our route sales customers rely on GAD Vending for parts, reconfiguration and retrofitting cashless solutions.

3 Ways Vending Is Providing Safer Retail – The Social Distancing Hero

From our partners at CPI Crane’s Cashless Solutions Division: You might be surprised to learn that the history of the vending machine goes back to first-century Roman Egypt, where Hero of Alexandria engineered a machine that accepted a coin and dispensed holy water. In modern times we’ve seen vending machines offer everything from postcards and stamps […]

Demand for PPE Continues

Make PPE convenient for your customers – whether in a break room or public area – people want and need PPE to continue to be out and about in the post COVID environment. Offer essentials like disposable face masks, safety glasses, gloves, and hand sanitizer. Add contactless payment with a Crane tap and pay solution. […]

New at GAD: Micromarket Merchandizer Freezers

With finding employees so difficult as people return to the office after COVID, many employers are looking for automated services to support their production employees. Micromarkets are a solution many employers are turning to. A Micromarket is an automated food and beverage breakroom service area that is serviced by a vending route sales person. At […]

Covid-19: Crane Vending Machine Maintenance and Hygiene Tips

As businesses across the Midwest slowly come out of lockdown, by necessity we now have to work out how best to handle tasks we may have previously taken for granted. COVID-19 has caused a rapid change in consumer perceptions of the devices around us, including vending machines. As the vending world adjusts to the new […]

Stern Pinball Announces Mask Sales Proceeds to Charitable Causes

As Stern Army locations and other establishments worldwide ease back into reopening, it’s necessary for all employers and players to practice safe habits while working and playing. Facilities are opening in a careful and measured way to ensure a safe environment for all guests and staff and Stern wants to support those efforts by providing […]

As We Open Up – New Cleaning Standards For Your Equipment

While many of our vending machines, digital music and ATMs have been located in essential business – many of our customers are just opening up. Don’t go it alone! Harsh chemicals will destroy graphics and parts. If you’ve been open during the pandemic, you should be using these guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting your equipment. […]