Before there was a Starbucks on every corner, time-crunched Americans could get a quick caffeine fix straight from their office vending machines. But nowadays, coffee vending machines offering piping ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – The ubiquitous Japanese vending machine is keeping its place on U.S. military bases, despite a nationwide round-up of obsolete machines. Many of the 4.1 million vending ...

In the U.S., when you think of vending machine snacks, you probably imagine stale candy and granola bars, bags of chips, and, if you're lucky, cookies. But if you've ever visited Japan, you know that ...

TOKYO — The vending machine at Hiroshi Nishitani’s Tokyo ramen restaurant has been reliable for a decade. Customers feed it money, and it prints out their orders while he makes fresh noodles in the ...