As we are preparing to launch our network of coffee vending machines, we are going to realize the one important part of our promise to the market – Coffee By The People. Not only are the vending machines brought to you by people (owned by people and not by companies) we want the coffee recipe…
Author: raymond
Market Positioning
There has been a discussion on whatsapp about market positioning. There is a suggestion to do the discussion on a separate forum and reserve whatsapp for immediate and important notifications. I think it is a great suggestion. While at the meantime, post can still be made on whatsapp to point to this resource to look…
Design of Vending Machine as a Coffee Cup – Work in Progress!
This is our first design for our vending machine placed at Tiong Bahru Plaza. We are experimenting with a few looks. Do help us co-design the design together and we would treat you to a free cup of coffee! Please fill up what you think of the design, and tell us how we can further…
Insurance Support for our Vending Machines
We just got our machines covered for insurance. Due to our numbers of vending machines and the increasing number of vending machines, our insurance coverage is incredibly cost-effective. This translates to greater value for franchisees. As a result of the insurance, there need to be assurances of our procedures to comply with certain reporting standards…
Idea to Implementation – Completed Design on Van
It is one thing to think of the van in mockup design and when it is actually printed on the van. More and more of our ideas are materializing. While we get our van ready, we are designing an operating system that would give more value to our franchisees and also our consumers. We are…
Coffee is not a product – it gets people together
As I evaluate the payment systems to integrate with our VendShare Community – Coffee By The People – it dawns on me to focus less on technicality and in fact lesser on the fact of coffee as a product/commodity. People consume coffee as an accompanying product of something that is more important – the community…
Buying Coffee Vouchers & Reselling
VendShare has been focusing on getting franchisees for its coffee vending machines. Now it is proceeding on to the next stage – to reach out to more end-users by being the most convenient coffee provider. Firstly, our vending machines would be among the first to work with food delivery companies to bring our coffee nearer…
Food Delivery / Concierge
This article is more applicable for present VendShare Franchisees & Katalyst members. The rest of the reader may just read it to see how we strategize to bring our coffee to the market. For the franchisees, do know that this is still in the discussion stage and not yet implemented. I have mentioned to some…
Support System – By The People
Update on 4G/5G IOT Technology to manage fresh coffee vending machine all over our island country. The model can be extended to other countries. We will be using IoT to implement the management of our vending machines – eventually implementing remote lock so that our VendShare Certified Support crew can effectively manage it timely to…
Newer foodcourts are more expensive now
In a few of my classes on business modelling (system science which I no longer teach), I told my students the following predictions which are coming true now (I predicted it 6 years ago). 1) Foodcourt food would increase in price. Today I ate at a food court at Central. The minimum food price is…