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One On One With: Canteen expands automated meal service with Le Bread Xpress deal

Michael Coffey, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Canteen Vending Services, talks about the company’s plans to deploy sophisticated Bake Xpress automated meal vending units across the country and what the expansion of such technology means for onsite dining going forward.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

June 25, 2021

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Recently, Canteen Vending Services announced a partnership with Le Bread Xpress to install and manage Bake Xpress robotic bakery vending machines throughout North America. Bake Xpress is a sophisticated vending solution that offers a selection of pastries, pizza and artisan sandwiches that are freshly baked at time of order.

Canteen has been piloting Bake Xpress machines at corporate and university sites in the San Francisco Bay Area since late 2019 and it was the success of these tests that led to the extended sales agreement to deploy Bake Xpress machines into additional markets nationwide, including into healthcare, hospitality, entertainment and transportation sites.

In this One On One interview, Michael Coffey, Canteen’s Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, talks about the rollout, how it enhances his company’s service capabilities to clients and what the deployment of such cutting-edge technology means for onsite dining as a whole going forward.

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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