Guides

A Spiral or a Shelf: How the Product Is Taken

Three Alnos Vending machines side by side: an AI smart cooler with a glass door, a coffee machine with a 22″ screen and a snack & drink machine with a 49″ touchscreen. Illustrative render.
Illustrative render.

Two machines, two gestures. In one, you wait for the product to drop. In the other, you reach for it. Both make sense, just in different situations.

The Spiral: The Snack & Drink Machine

In the Snack & Drink Machine, products sit on spirals. You choose on the 49″ touchscreen, pay cashless, the spiral turns and the product drops to the pickup area. A sensor checks that it really fell. Nobody reaches inside.

The Shelf: The AI Smart Cooler

In the AI Smart Cooler (AF-CFZ-510), products sit on shelves behind a glass door with an electric lock. How payment and taking products will work in the cooler is confirmed before we open it to buyers at a given site. It isn’t a cupboard the whole team stands at with the door open.

When to Use Which

  • the spiral suits someone who wants to grab a bottle or a snack on the way past,
  • the shelf suits someone who wants to see the whole offer at once.

What We Don’t Describe Here

How the mechanisms are built or how the lock works inside. Those are service matters. The machines aren’t opened by the host, and problems go to the number on the label: +48 84 300 10 10.

Where to Read More

The screens are compared in the guide on 22 inches for coffee, 49 for snacks. The touchscreen is covered on the touchscreen page.

Write to hello@alnosvending.pl, call +48 84 300 10 10, or fill in a Golden Ticket, the machine inquiry form (not a prize draw). One form, one conversation about your place.

It drops or you take it. Either way, the snack ends up in your hand.

FAQ

Questions

Short answers from our FAQ page.

How does the snack machine hand out a product?

The product drops from a spiral to the pickup area. A sensor checks that it really fell.

How do I take a product from the AI Smart Cooler?

The cooler has a glass door with an electric lock. How payment and taking products will work is confirmed before it opens to buyers.

Which machine suits food better?

The AI Smart Cooler, with the food range agreed with each place.

Can I open the machine if something jams?

No. Report it to the number on the label, +48 84 300 10 10.

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