The Farmer’s Fridge company is taking vending machine selling to the next level! As the company replaces unhealthy snacks with freshly made, diverse salads, sold through the convenience of a vending machine; hit the jump for more!
27 year old entrepreneur, Luke Saunders has embarked on a healthy campaign that just may be the solution to this nation’s poor eating habits!
Saunders, established the Farmer Ridge company, that produces and sells fresh salads through vending machines. He took to the downtown Chicago area to debut his master piece and just like that healthy eaters came.
The machine resembles something out of a “Portlandia” sketch. Made from reclaimed wood and surrounded by real plants with a carpet of artificial grass leading up, the kiosk is stocked at 10 a.m. every day with an array of fresh salads and snacks consisting mainly of organic, locally grown produce and assembled at a nearby kitchen just hours before. Whatever is left at the end of each day is donated to a local food pantry.
Saunders stated:
“My realization was that I could make fresh food and put it in a vending machine without adding any preservatives or other junk and it would taste good,” he said. “We want everything to be in the running for ‘the best salad I ever had’ or ‘the best blank I ever had.’ If it’s not that good, we’re not going to put it in there.”
**Check out the photos of the refreshing salads in the gallery above**
