11/15/2022
Three Ways! To-Go Dinner packages, dine in prix-fixe menus and for those traveling, pickup some seasonal goodies at our MIA locations. -
Thanksgiving is Next Week, What’s Your Dinner Plan?
As Thanksgiving day draws even closer, Icebox Cafe is here to help make your celebration stress free and delicious. Thanksgiving To-Go Packages Prepared by our team and perfect for 8-10 guests. Our Thanksgiving To-Go packages include a roasted turkey, signature sides and our world-famous desser...
11/08/2021
South Florida Sun Sentinel for featuring us last week!
Call them modern-day automats, or maybe the next generation of vending. Robert Siegmann, owner of 12 fancy machines in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, calls them surefire pandemic moneymakers. At Icebox Cafe's kitchen, it takes 25 chefs, line cooks and production packers to replenish Siegmann’s 12 Icebox vending machines with Moroccan chicken bowls, chipotle turkey on fresh multigrain, cheesecake bites and tres leches cake. An 8-foot-tall orange touchscreen machine in Icebox’s dining room charges $6.50 to $9 per grab-and-go item. It takes debit, credit, Apple Pay and Google Pay, but not cash.
Siegmann started Icebox Cafe's fleet of vending machines a few months before COVID-19, then added more when his grab-and-go meals sold “like gangbusters” amid pandemic shutdowns. Millennials and Gen-Zers use them the most, and Siegmann is negotiating with college campuses, shopping malls and hospitals to carry more.
Fancy South Florida vending machines dispense raw steaks, $30 champagne and cake
More restaurants, food halls, hotels, hospitals and shopping malls in South Florida now tantalize customers with touchscreen machines selling $30 grass-fed ribeyes, Moet & Chandon champagne, sandwiches from local restaurants and even… licorice?
03/29/2021
When the sweet tooth hits. The decadent desserts Icebox is known for — like these coconut-y, chocolatey dream bars — at the push of a button.
03/25/2021
In the age of COVID-19, vending machines have now become an important element of increasingly higher-quality dining, providing safe, no-touch access to food.
Cannoli kits and prime aged steaks: Here’s how the pandemic has revolutionized vending machines
A vending machine in Virginia stocks frozen pasta, sauces and Italian desserts. (Rey Lopez)By Laura ReileyLaura ReileyReporter covering the business of foodEmailBioFollowMarch 12, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. UTCThe pandemic has rocketed vending machines into new territory. Light-years beyond dispensers of Fu...
03/24/2021
Residents of Miami’s most exciting apartment community, X Miami, are eating well with our perfectly portioned meals and snacks — one of the great amenities while snacking poolside. 🕶
03/19/2021
"The bottom line is that the restaurant experience – from QSR to Fine Dining – will increasingly no longer be confined to the four walls of a restaurant." - The Spoon
Why I’m All-in on Smart Vending Machines
This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! Vending machines are cool. No, really! Between robotics, IoT and way…
03/18/2021
Our Sesame Noodle Chicken Bowl is an inspired mainstay with a ginger-y kick — one of the many tasty, healthy meals you can grab from our smart vending machines.
03/18/2021
Excited to see our state-of-the-art automated vending machine at the PepsiCo warehouse in Pompano Beach, FL! Now, employees can enjoy our healthy, chef-curated meals and snacks everyday, any time.