@azonenberg @gsuberland
I managed to pay £3.85 for a single can of coke in a Toby Carvery in Middlesbrough 😳 (this is probably because they want the punter to pay an extra 50p or so for their unlimited soft-drink refills; for example a normal pot of tea is still £1.85... Still, menu first *then* order drinks 🤦 )

Would love to see a spreadsheet of lifetime income/outgoings of one of those fancy coffee (starbucks/costa) vending machines. I reckon if there's a way to deliver a takeaway coffee cheaper, in a period of economic contraction, it's some kind of automat.

#coffee #economics #microeconomics #vending #automation #robotics

As a followup to this I can say that a used outdoor tobacco vending machine costs ~ €3,5k + shipping (which is also triple digits since they have to be ratchet-strapped to a pallet and driven in a truck and can't just be put on a trolley out of the rear of a parcel truck)...

So that's a bummer...

#Vending #VendingMachine #VendingMachines