YoNaturals Healthy Vending Program Prospering in Schools throughout America

Oct. 11, 2008 - PRLog -- The YoNaturals “School Healthy Vending” program is designed to encourage schools to replace their unhealthy junk food and soda vending machines with natural and organics. The program has been an overwhelming success thus far, and schools nationwide are raving about the benefits of healthy vending, both in terms of student health and school profit. With no money down, low weekly payments and the fact that schools keep 100% of the profits, there has never been a better time to break ties with unhealthy vendors and promote school nutrition.

Unfortunately for our students, unhealthy vending companies have been tremendously successful at infiltrating schools and universities, amongst the many other public locations that vending machines are traditionally found. In fact, one can hardly imagine a school campus without the ubiquitous soda and junk food vending machines that proliferate schools throughout the nation. No one can quantify the influence of these products on the obesity epidemic amongst our children, but most experts agree that there definitely is a correlation.

But YoNaturals is changing all that, along with the traditional view of vending machines. About two decades ago, the organic food industry began to explode in popularity and the industry has grown approximately 15% every year since to become a $20 billion a year industry. After studying the undeniable success of health food markets such as Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, YoNaturals asked “why not vending?” The rest is history. Organic and natural vending is now the fastest growing segment in the vending industry, as it is in the general food industry. The next question YoNaturals asked is “why not schools?”

Having already successfully placed machines in hundreds of schools across the nation, the healthy vending company decided to design a “direct to schools” program with incentives specifically designed to help schools get rid of their unhealthy vending machines. The School Healthy Vending program allows schools to lease organic and natural snack and drink machines for as little as $40 a week and order from a selection of hundreds of products that satisfy state nutritional mandates, while also passing the most difficult test of all: the student taste bud test. The products can be ordered online with ease and with free delivery nationwide. The lease program has very flexible terms and is much like leasing a car or copy machine. Once the machines pay for themselves through the sale of healthy foods and beverages, schools keep 100% of the profit garnered from sales.

“It is not a child’s job to know what is good for him or her, it’s the parents’ and schools’ responsibility to provide a healthy environment,” says Mark Trotter, CEO of YoNaturals. “With the School Healthy Vending program, schools don’t have to fight childhood obesity at the expense of their already limited budgets. Everyone can benefit.”

As unfortunate as it is, many schools are legally bound to honor their contracts with less healthy vendors until their completion; however, they often have flexibility with some or most of their vending machines, and YoNaturals has a solution for this as well. The launch of the school vending program is concurrent with the unveiling of two new machines known as the “YoHungry” and the “YoThirsty,” which vend only healthy snacks or only healthy drinks, respectively. These are in addition to the “YoZone” combo vending machine which houses both snacks and drinks simultaneously. This is beneficial for schools that are only able to get rid of one machine until the terms of their contract are fulfilled. All the machines feature cashless payment systems which improve convenience and have been shown to increase purchase quantities by up to 30%.

YoNaturals encourages any school administrator or food service personnel interested in improving student nutrition and wellness at their school to visit www.schoolhealthyvending.com and discover the program that is changing students’ lives in schools across America.

For questions or comments regarding this press release please contact Mark Trotter at (858) 794-9955 ext 102 or email sales@yonaturals.com.

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