CHALLENGES OF VENDING

MACHINE IN SCHOOLS AND

UNIVERSITIES
PRESENTED BY:
AIMI SHAHIRA BINTI ABD RAHIM
ANIS ATHIRA BINTI ROSLI
JEANY AMBROSE
NUR MAISARAH BINTI SARUDIN
HM242 5B

INTRODUCTION
A vending machine is a machine that
administers things, for example, snacks,
refreshments, liquor, cigarettes, lottery
tickets to clients naturally, after the client
embeds cash or credit into the machine.
Vending machine prevents the development
of an affective of food service operation at
schools and universities because students
choices depend on what is most visible and
easily
accessible.
Installing
vending
machines in schools is one of the best ways

Literature review

1. Unhealthy food on vending machine

2. School related policies and food
environment
3.
The
school
and
university
foodservice concern
4. Perception of student on school
foodservice
5. Can school vending balancing food
allergy in schools and achieving the
school food standards?
6. Healthy Food in Schools.

DISCUSSI
ONS

Difficulty
vendors

obtaining

vending

machine

data

from

PROBLEMS :
(1) Accessing the vending companies through the schools
(2) Getting their cooperation to provide sales data
(3) Obtaining sufficient detail on the food items for nutrient
coding
Competitive food
Competitive foods are defined as foods offered
the school meal programs.
Much of the policy concern about competitive
focused on vending machine sales.

outside of
foods has

Poor Nutritional Quality

Vending machines are high in calories and/or low in
nutrition.
The most prevalent options are soda, imitation fruit juices,
candy, chips, cookies, and snack cakes.
The high prevalence of junk food in school vending

Insufficient vending machine information

A nutrition education program about vending machine means
that students receive nutrition education messages to create
a healthier school environment through the development,
implementation and evaluation of improved nutrition policies
and programs on vending machine
Training To The Vendors/Supplier/Manufacturer
Training is important as vending machine chain will know the
preferences of the student as well.
Lack of training can lead to ineffective vending machine
development as the chains does not know how to handle
vending machine in school and universities. Manufacturer
must produce vending machine that is not easy to be broken
and easy to handle.
Lack of funding
Challenges of vending machine also include supplier
discouragement.
Some product suppliers may not be supportive because their
product lines may not include items meeting healthy

Students preferences
Nowadays, because of lunch time is too short for students to
enjoy the meals, students like to eat food that convenience
to eat such as snack.
They also feel like snacks is easy to grab and have affordable
price.
Vending machine supplier must concern about product
offered inside the vending machine to attract student to buy
the product.
Lack of parental support
Health educators consistently pointed out that parental
involvement is crucial in promoting vending machine
development.
Parents often think that junk food inside vending machine is
unhealthy not nutritious.
Not all vending machine provide junk food, others are
provide healthy snack such as yogurt, milk, oat biscuit and
others.
If parents involved in vending machine development, they

Mass media promoting vending machine

Mass media such as newspaper, television, online web or
others can advertise vending machine in school and
university.
This lead to good perspective to parents as the product in
vending machine is safe to use and not harmful to health.
Incorporate new technology
Key technologies include more versatile vending machine
equipment and payment options.
New vending machine technologies require an upfront
capital investment, but they will result in improved
efficiency and profitability.
Maximizing Healthy items in Vending Machines
This can lead to parent to trust the vending machine give
nutritious and healthy food to their children.
Healthy product such as low fat milk or yogurt, and oat
biscuit can increased the profit to vendor.
Moreover, it lead to student that concern about health to
buy healthy product inside the vending machine.

Expensive maintenance and repairs

This lead to vendor to not repair when the vending machine
is broke.
Some items inside vending machine always broken
especially money hole which coin always stuck in there.
It can lead profit to decrease.
Lack of creative materials in vending machine
Use of special card such as membership card to gain
loyalty as well

 A whole school policy ensures that everyone in

the school is aware of the significance of this
arrangement and the need to follow strict
procedures to limit potential for cross
contamination.
Child with a food allergy, carry out a health and
safety risk assessment taking their specific
allergens into account.

Following this procedure, consider what actions are

necessary to protect allergic children from residual allergens
:
Ensure good hygiene so that the risk from residual
allergens is minimized.
Work surfaces should be cleaned regularly with warm,
soapy water. Using hot soapy water has been shown to be
effective in removing allergens.
Wet wipes could be displayed so that allergic students
can use them to wipe surfaces (keyboards)
Encourage all children to wash their hands after eating to
remove residual allergens (particularly if nuts and seeds
are sold).
Any child with a severe food allergy should be
encouraged (and regularly reminded) to wipe down any
table tops/computer keyboards with wet wipes before
they use them. Establishing a sense of personal
preventative responsibility during school may help to in
still good habits for their lifetime in the less protected
worldwide environment.

RECOMMENDATION
1.Food organizations ought to be urged to
grow new items and reformulate existing
items
2.Promote
great
nourishment
through
afterschool programs.
3.Promote healthy behaviors in juvenile
correctional and related facilities.
4.Educate cafeteria managers and student.
5.Promote positive mealtime behavior.
6.Foster agreeable social cooperation
7.Breakfast programme at school and

8. Schools and universities need to improve their

food service operation.
9. Government should continue its outreach and
technical assistance to help provide training for
school food service professionals.
10.Government should collaborate with the states
to increase the availability and consistency of
nutrition education in schools.
11.Seeking Support for Self-Operation.
12.Marketing, Program Quality, and Nutrition
Education

CONCLUSION
Vending Machine prevent the development of
food service operation in schools and universities
by providing nutritious food and cheaper price
compared to meals provided in the school
cafeteria. Food service manager should take
action in order to attract more student to buy the
meals the sell in order to gain profit for their
organizations. The accessibility of vending
machine make the students feel easy to reach the
products sell in vending machine. They also only
need to place their money on to the vending
machine and snacks will quickly out from the
machine. So, food service operation must
cooperate with the school top management to not