Snack box
A snack box is a business concept in which a specialty company provides a box with small snacks such as sweets or fruit for small and medium-sized companies for employees. Payment for the goods removed is made on the basis of trust in a cash register provided. The provider bills the till and refills the snack box if necessary. A snack box is a simple and uncomplicated alternative to a vending machine .
The snack box system was invented in the USA in the late 1980s . It solved the problem that small businesses and offices with few employees wanted to provide their employees with sweets and snacks without great expense, but the sweet vending machines, which had been on the market for several decades, only paid off with a certain number of employees.
The main difference to the machine is that the snack box is an open system. While the goods are kept under lock and key in a machine until payment, everyone can freely access the goods in the snack box.
The product range of the snack boxes varies between the individual operators, but in most cases mainly consists of chocolate bars and similar confectionery. But also fruit and fresh produce such as B. Sandwiches can be provided in this way if required.
Data from snack box operators about fluctuations over time in the honesty of workers to pay for goods that have been withdrawn has already been used in economics as a starting point for research.
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- ↑ Steven Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner : Freakonomics. Surprising answers to everyday life questions (“freakonomics”). Riemann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-570-50064-4 .
- ↑ Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner: What The Bagel Man Saw . In: The New York Times, June 6, 2004