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Quality of agricultural products from vending machines for agricultural products and evaluation of their use
SUDA, Matěj
The bachelor thesis addresses the issue of selling agricultural products through vending machines. It deals with the characteristics of individual products, legisla-tive regulations and standards governing their sale, as well as the companies operat-ing vending machines. Publicly available sources, personal survey conducted in selected businesses and questionnaire distributed tough the social media platforms were used to obtain this information. The main finding of this research is that for large businesses the income from vending machines is not the main source of in-come, but small businesses have higher income from the vending machines. How-ever, the public has insufficient awareness of the machines.
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The frequency of using and the product range of drink dispensers and food-vending machines at primary and secondary schools
SCHWARZ, Václav
In recent decades, the growth of proportion of child and youth obezity is alarming. The focus of this study is on one of the possible sources of youth nutrients - food and drink vending machines in educational establishments of 6-15 years old's. (or schools or primary and secondary establishments. The teoretical part of this study puts emphasis on specific issues of child and youth diet. It provides description of the main atributes of the nutrition, eating disorders and dietery supplements. The study also covers the history and taxonomy of vending machines. The practical part of this study is devoted to investigation of real life scenarios regarding installations of vending machines, the frequency of use and the sortiment provided. The data is gathered in form of electronic questionaires covering the whole Czech Republic. The objective of this study is to compare educatinal establishments in the South Czechia that do or do not have installed vending machines. Secondary objective is to determine sortiment of the most popular products offered via vending mechines based on the frequency of purchase.
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