Auto shops & dealerships
The wait is two hours. There is nowhere to go.
A free open-door cooler in the waiting area serves the customer stuck without a car and the technician who cannot leave the floor. We install it, stock it and service it at no cost.
The captive customer
Nobody is more stuck than a person waiting on their own car.
A customer waiting on an alignment has handed you their only means of leaving. They are there for as long as the job takes, they did not plan for it, and the free coffee ran out at nine. That waiting room is one of the few retail environments where the audience genuinely cannot go anywhere else.
The experience of that wait is also, fairly or not, part of how people judge the shop. A clean waiting area with cold drinks and something to eat lands differently from a stale pot of coffee and a television nobody can hear. It costs you nothing to be the first one.
And it works twice, because your technicians are the second audience — on a long shift, on the floor, with no realistic way to leave for food.
Two audiences
Stocked for both.
For the waiting customer
Cold drinks, coffee, water and something substantial enough to count as a missed lunch. Snacks for children who came along for the ride, because they always do.
For the technicians
Full-size portions, energy drinks, electrolytes and real meals. People doing physical work through a long shift do not want a snack-size bag, and in an Austin summer the hydration category is not optional.
The non-food items
Phone chargers sell remarkably well to a person who has been sitting in a waiting room for ninety minutes watching their battery die. Wipes and pain relievers move steadily too.
Worth knowing
Three things specific to shops.
Waiting area, not the bay
The machine belongs in the conditioned customer area or the breakroom. A service bay has dust, temperature swings and equipment traffic that refrigerated units and fresh food do not tolerate well.
Saturday is the peak
For most shops the busiest waiting room of the week is Saturday morning. That is worth planning restocks around, and it is the opposite of an office rhythm.
Dealerships have a service drive
If you run a dealership, the service waiting lounge and the technician breakroom are genuinely different placements with different stock. Sometimes one machine covers both; sometimes it should not. We will say which at the visit.
FAQ
Shop owner questions.
Some shops do, and it is a legitimate choice — it is just one you are paying for, restocking yourself and running out of on a Saturday. A machine costs you nothing, never empties because somebody took a case home, and covers food as well as drinks. Several shops run both: free coffee, paid everything else.
It should go in the breakroom rather than the bay itself. Dust, heat and equipment traffic are hard on refrigerated equipment and on fresh food. If your breakroom is off the shop floor, that is usually the right spot.
No. We own the machine and cover delivery, installation, stocking, cleaning and repairs. You provide a few square feet and a standard 110V outlet.
You will hear back on your application within one business day and we will usually visit that same week. From there it depends on which model fits your space. We will give you a real date rather than an optimistic one.
Who we place with
Free vending machines for every kind of Austin location.
Apply now
Let's see if your space is a fit.
An owner, not a sales team, reads every application and replies within one business day. If it is not a fit, we will say so.
- No equipment cost, no install fee, nothing to buy
- We stock it, clean it and repair it
- You need a few square feet and a standard outlet
Prefer to talk? Call (512) 763-2178 or email barsha@chromaoasis.com.
Coverage
Serving North Austin and the northern corridor.
A tight service area on purpose: short drives mean frequent restocks and same-day service.
A better machine, at no cost, from someone who lives here.
Tell us about your space and we will tell you honestly whether it is a fit.