Solutions: what each venue actually needs

A drink machine is not a vending machine with a better menu. What decides whether a site works is the queue it has to absorb, the space it is allowed to take, and who refills it. An office floor with 600 people and a ten-minute coffee break needs a different machine from a hospital corridor where the machine must run unattended overnight.

The pages below take one scenario at a time and work through the same four questions: where the machine stands, how much power and water it needs, how often someone has to visit, and what the site owner will ask before signing. Numbers are given as ranges rather than promises, because a site survey changes them.