Working from home today, in order to get some private time to work on my team’s annual reviews, I found myself in need of a change of location to keep my productivity up. Since I knew I had to be in Redmond at 6 pm for my friend’s bachelor dinner, I decided to head that way and beat traffic.
I stopped at the Redmond Library due to their free WiFi, and immediately noticed they had a pretty nice coffee vending machine (not quite the same look as the picture, but you get the idea). I rather enjoyed my cafe latte with medium strength and 1 sugar, thank you very much (and even more so that they had separate buttons to figure this all out).
Which brought me to a question that perplexed me – how come you see these vending coffee machines that serve liquid in a cup, but never see vending machines for pop/soda that do the same thing? They are always in cans or bottles. It is even more perplexing since there is always the drink machines (such as the picture on the right) at fast food places and other food establishments, but they aren’t acting as vending machines in those contexts. Anyone have any ideas?