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Ideal Vending Services

Immediate Energy Savings and Positive Environmental Impact

Why Vending Miser?

Saves between 25% and 50% of energy normally used to power the machine

Saves ¼ to 1 tonne of CO2 emissions per machine per year.

Maintains product temperature even when in power saving mode

The machine is always available as it powers up when customers enter the vending area

Prolongs the life of the machine due to reduced compressor duty cycles

Alarms for compressor malfunctions

Savings are proportional to the time area around the machine is unoccupied.

Typical savings pay for the Vending Miser in 1 to 2 years

How Vending Miser Saves Energy & £’s

Powers off cold drink vending machines when the area around them is unoccupied for 15 minutes and the completion of the next compressor cycle.
Eliminates heat source from evaporator fan that lies within a vending machine’s cold box cabinet, thereby reducing refrigeration load.
Repowers the machine periodically for one compressor cycle to ensure contents are kept cool.

Vending Miser uses three different technologies:
Passive Infrared sensor to detect occupancy
Compressor monitoring sensor to determine optimum times for machine switch off and prevent “short Cycling” of it’s compressor
Room temperature sampling while in energy saving mode . (re-powers the machine in 1 to 3 hour intervals to maintain product temperature)

Vending Miser Facts..

Compatible with all cold drink vending machines
Slave units available to link up to 4 machines from one PID unit
Simple external plug and play installation
Wall mount or machine mount options
Tested and accepted by major drinks manufacturers and vending machine manufacturers
5 – Year Warranty!

Vending Misers Environmental and Money Saving Benefits

(Per machine per year)

Reduction in C02 ~ 1,274 Kgs
Reduction of Nox ~ 3.6 Kgs
Savings* up to ~ £140

*figures are based on a Crane Cascade combi can & snack machine in a London bank ( actual trial 9th to 16th Sept 2009).

CO2 & Nox Emissions figures from Greenpeace web site

Vending Miser Mounting options

Easy Fit VM170
Easy Fit VM170	Wall Mount VM150	Magnetic Fit VM 172

Other Types of Miser

Cooler Miser

For Glass Fronted Cooler Cabinets

Allows two compressor cycles before switching off.

Plug Miser

For any electrical equipment that could be switched off if an area is unoccupied

Variable Timing from 15 Seconds to 3 Hours in 8, switch selectable, steps.

Ideal Vending Maintenance

We currently employ our own Vending Engineers to respond to service calls on our operated machines installed across Scotland.

We currently use Blackberry and BES technology combined with Vendman bespoke software to control the service and maintenance aspects of the business.

In addition our entire route operating vehicle and service van fleets are fitted with Minorplanets GPS tracking devices which enable us to constantly monitor the location of our vehicle fleet.

By combining these two systems we are able to route any service call received from a customer directly to the nearest responsible member of staff’s handset, ensuring response times to all service calls are kept to a minimum.

We are shortly to invest in new service vehicles which will be fully stocked with parts in order to achieve our target of fixing 90% of reported defects on the first visit. Once an engineer attends to a breakdown the progress of the call, including any parts used, is updated using his/her Blackberry handset so that our office has a constantly updated view of the status of all reported calls.

At Ideal Services we train our Vending Operators to attend to most reported faults as part of their duties. In this way common defects such as coin jams, coin mechanism swaps, motor jams and re-sets, blown fuses etc can normally be fixed by our operator thereby minimising the downtime on equipment.

In remote unsupervised areas where vandalism of equipment is a potential issue we would recommend bolting machines securely to the floor with industry standard fixings, this prevents the equipment from being damaged or stock from being dislodged, both of which can be responsible for generating customer complaints as well as taking the machine out of service.

In order to ensure that cleaning and sanitising routines are maintained in installed equipment by our operating staff we issue all staff with a full hygiene kit for every machine, which contains all parts that are in contact with water or ingredients, our operator simply replaces all components on each visit and removes the dirty components for thorough cleaning and sanitising off-site.

Thick, creamy indulgent, Coffee Shop standard drinks - guaranteed to deliver against consumer expectations. ideal_coffee_machine

Large 9oz Paper Cups with Sip lids.
Just like High Street Coffee shops.
Grab and Go.
100% Dairy Skimmed Milk
Piping Hot Soup
Hot Chocolate

Fully Managed Vending Service

This operation is the most popular option. Taking this route with an Ideal Vending removes all day-to-day concerns about the vending operation.

Machines are normally supplied and installed by the Ideal Services free on loan, who then maintains and services them under contract. All ingredients and products are supplied by the us, we fill and clean the machine and collects and accounts for the cash takings.

The prices to be charged for vended products will be decided jointly by the vending specifier and the Ideal Vending, and will depend on whether the operator is to be paid entirely from the cash proceeds of sales or by means of a separate service charge.

The level of service required will vary depending on type of machine, types of products, consumption patterns, etc. Ideal Vending will use our telemerty information system to determin the minimum number of visits.

We only use house hold branded products in our vending machines

Ideal Vending snack brands image

Our Fully Managed Serviced contains the following

-Free on loan machines
-Stocked
-Cashed
-Cleaned
-Maintain
-Repair
-No Cost
-Hassle free vending
-Leading Brands

DIY Operation

An organisation may decide to fill, cash and service its own vending machines. This option is often chosen by those using an in-cup machine (ie where the ingredients are pre-packed into the cup and mixed with water at the time of dispense).

The DIY option may also be suitable for an organisation that has catering staff, or one that has enough machines to warrant employing someone direct to control ordering and storage, cleaning and servicing, as well as accounting for and banking the cash takings.

It is important to remember that the Food Hygiene Regulations set out strict requirements for the hygienic operation of food and drink machines.

Ideal Vending Services would discuss all the options in more depth.

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