. . . and Your Customer

Water is essential to our wellbeing and to our industry, but it can bring with it a host of problems, most importantly that it can be aggressive in our machines, causing maintenance calls and downtime; and that its contaminants can taste bad, causing customer dissatisfaction, lower sales and lower returns. All of these difficulties are a result of impurities, dissolved minerals, contained in the water.

While your in-line charcoal filter addresses chlorine and some other water impurities, it cannot remove andis not designed to remove the dissolved minerals commonly found in tap water. This is why we designed the VendFriend System to work together with the charcoal filter you’re likely already using.

There are numerous advantages of using VendFriend-treated water in your vending machines. The most noteworthy are:

• Elimination, not just reduction, of water-related maintenance calls: the System ensures that valves, heating elements, water tanks and icemakers stay clean maintenance-free. This saves money for mechanics time, lost sales during downtime and replacement parts, as well as extending the life of existing parts.
• Less product throw (usually 10-20% less): filtering unwanted elements from the water means not having to overpower the contaminants to flavor the water with product.
• Better-tasting product: because water comprises about 95% of your product, adding VendFriend-treated water ensures that you add only water to your throw, not water plus foul-tastingdissolved minerals, calcium carbonates, and lime.
• A cost-effective solution: it quickly pays for itself because of the money saved on maintenance calls and on product throw,* as well as the non-disposable nature of the system . It is less expensive to use the system than not to use it.