Ketchup chips, instant noodle soup, peanut butter cups, or cold pop is what you tend to find lurking inside vending machines. But what about containers of fresh salad?
Toss your preconceived notion of what vending machine eats can be thanks to this new venture that鈥檚 dispensing the goods in North Vancouver.
Owner Ryan Dennis displays some of the options available at the Larry鈥檚 Market Express vending machine at Lonsdale Quay. Photo by Mike Wakefield/North Shore News
The vending machine is the work of Larry鈥檚 Market, a specialty vegetarian grocery store that is set to open later this spring at Lonsdale Quay. In the meanwhile, owner Ryan Dennis is giving customers a taste of his local and organic goods via the vending machine.
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The machine sells jarred salads, such as Chickpea Lentil with tomato and romaine lettuce or Arugula and Carrot with cashews. In addition to salads and dressing, Larry鈥檚 Market Express stocks healthy snacks and kombucha.
鈥淚f you鈥檙e vegan or vegetarian, we feel your pain of being hungry on the go and having to decide between roasted nuts or salted chips as a vending machine snack,鈥� says Larry鈥檚 Market on social media.
The vending machine, hailed as 鈥榝uturistic鈥� in press materials, is called Larry鈥檚 Market Express, and is now up and running at Lonsdale Quay, with the company expecting a few more machines to pop up around 麻豆传媒映画soon.
With files from the North Shore News
