Free Office Vending Machines — Underwood, Eight Mile Plains

Free office vending machines in Underwood

Underwood sits inside the Eight Mile Plains catchment we service every week, and offices here take a free machine for the same reason everywhere else does — it removes a cost and a chore in one move.

Underwood is part of greater Eight Mile Plains, QLD, where the workplaces we place machines into are mostly in technology, corporate parks, health services and logistics.

Brisbane Technology Park has thousands of staff and very little walkable food retail — a textbook free vending site.

What it costs a Underwood office

Nothing. There is no purchase price, no hire or rental fee, no delivery charge, no service fee and no lock-in contract for a Underwood site. We own the machine and earn from product sales at ordinary retail prices, which is what keeps the program free.

The only thing the site carries is the electricity, which is comparable to running a bar fridge.

The problems it actually solves

Most Underwood workplaces lose the same twenty minutes a head to a drink run. Twelve staff doing that once a day is roughly four paid hours gone every working day.

• Staff leaving the floor for 15 to 25 minutes to buy a drink or a snack
• Kitchen supplies bought on a company card with no control and no visibility
• Late shifts, weekend work and early starts with nothing open nearby
• Facilities budget carrying the cost of an amenity that could cost nothing
• Meeting-room catering runs that eat an admin day every week
• Nobody willing to own restocking, cleaning or the money tin

What we do — at no cost to your site

• Supply — the machine is ours, not a lease or a rent-to-own
• Delivery — freight, trolleys, lift bookings and out-of-hours access
• Installation — positioning, levelling, electrical test and tag, commissioning
• Insurance — the machine and its stock are insured by us, certificate supplied
• Maintenance — parts, labour, refrigeration and payment faults, all included
• Refilling — telemetry-driven restocking so popular lines do not run out
• Refunds — failed vends refunded by us, never handled by your reception desk
• Removal — if it does not suit the site, we take it away at our cost

What a Underwood site provides

No plumbing, no power upgrade and no network connection — sales and stock levels report over the machine's own mobile telemetry.

• About 1 metre of level wall space per machine
• A standard 10 amp power point within roughly 2 metres
• Delivery access — lift, ramp or an 820mm doorway
• A position staff already walk past
• One contact for delivery day and restock access

Nearby areas we cover from the same Eight Mile Plains run

A machine in Underwood is serviced on the same schedule as the rest of Eight Mile Plains, so a smaller tenancy is never told it is too far out of the way.

• Eight Mile Plains
• Springwood
• Rochedale
• Business parks, office estates and industrial tenancies throughout greater Eight Mile Plains

Products and range

You choose the mix for your Underwood floor. Plenty of sites ask for a healthier weighting — water, sparkling water, low-sugar drinks, nuts, protein bars and popcorn beside the usual lines — and any product can be excluded, with nut-free a common request on client-facing floors.

Ranges are re-weighted after the first few restocks using actual sales data, not a fixed planogram.

Or buy a machine for Underwood instead

If you want the sales income rather than just the amenity, refurbished machines start at $1,650 + GST plus payment system and transport, delivered to Underwood. The ROI calculator will show the payback period before you commit.