163 Unique Vending Machine Business Ideas
Considering there are more than 17,000 vending machine operators in the United States alone, it’s no surprise settling on a unique name when starting a vending business is no easy task.
Picking the right name gives potential customers an idea about your business’s services, creates a good first impression, and helps you stand out from the competition.
Are all the good vending machine business names already taken? How do you come up with something fresh? And what names are legal to use?
Related: How to start a vending machine business
If you’re not sure how to answer those questions, you’re in the right place. Keep reading to learn my top tips for choosing the perfect business name and how to make sure your favorite choices are available across the board.
Let’s dive in!
Tips for Choosing the Best Vending Machine Business Name
If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your vending machine business, one of the best things to do is just to start brainstorming. As you go through the tips outlined below, make a list of words, phrases, and terms associated with your business.
From there, you can narrow down the list and cross off ideas you don’t like.
Once you have several top considerations, we’ll walk you through how to make sure you’re allowed to use them. This last step helps you narrow down your list even more so you can make a final decision.
1. Location-Specific Terms
Many vending machine businesses are specific to a geographic service area. So, if that’s true for your business, consider adding a location-specific term to your business name.
You can consider things like:
- City nicknames
- Neighborhoods
- Regions or states
- And descriptive terms
However, consider what happens if you expand outside your intended service area. Does the name become limiting? If so, it’s best to avoid it if you plan to expand or change directions later.
2. Avoid Business Names That Are Hard to Pronounce or Spell
Despite the technological advances in voice search, assistants like Siri and Alexa struggle to understand slang and other confusing words.
This could limit how often your business shows up in voice (and text-based) search if your name is hard to spell, pronounce, or hear. Because of that, it’s important to avoid complicated words, industry jargon, and using numbers in place of letters. While having a unique vending company name is good, being too unique may not be so good.
Keep your business name as simple and easy to remember as possible so potential customers can easily find you.
3. Consider Alliterations and Rhyming Words
Alliterations and rhymes are catchy and easy to remember. Because of that, they make for great business names.
That said, it’s not always easy to come up with them. Start with choosing a few of your favorite words from your master brainstorm list.
You can then Google “words that start with S” to come up with a unique name. Alternatively, you can search “words that rhyme with _____.”
It can be time-consuming, but it’s an excellent place to start.
And don’t forget to add any exciting finds to your brainstorm list while you’re at it. Try not to overthink the names you come up with during this stage. Just write them all down as some of the more interesting ones may spark better ideas later.
4. Steer Clear of Initials or Obscure Acronyms
Initials and unusual acronyms are hard to remember, so they typically don’t make great business names. They can also be challenging to pronounce and confusing for voice search as well.
Furthermore, there are 325 different two-letter combination possibilities in the English language. And the odds of your customers remembering the specific letters you chose are pretty small.
5. Imagery Words
Another consideration when brainstorming name ideas is whether there are industry-related words that could also lend themselves to be used in a logo. For instance, a vending machine business could use an image of a vending machine or the types of items you will sell and focus the name around the image.
Related: How to create a logo for your business.
6. Try the Owner’s Name
If you’ve made it this far and are still struggling to find the best name, you can always consider using the business owner’s own name. Doing so works well if the owner also plans to be the face behind the business.
Something to keep in mind is that using the owner’s name as the business name can make it more challenging to sell the business in the future.
List of Catchy Vending Machine Business Name Ideas
Here is a list of existing vending machine business names that may help give you some creative ideas. While many of these names may be available for you to use, be sure to check first to be sure they can be used.
- 1st Choice Vending
- 2 Serve
- 21st Century Vending
- A & M Vending
- ABC Vending
- Absolute Vending Co
- Advanced Vending Service
- All Access Vending
- All American Healthy Vending
- All Florida Vending & More
- All Good Vending
- All USA Vending
- Aloha Vending Concepts
- Alpha 1 Solutions Vending
- Always Great Vending
- Amerian Soda Machine
- Athens Vending
- Atlantic Healthy Vending
- Awesome Treat Vending
- Balanced Choice Vending
- Bayshore Vending
- Better Choice Vending
- Betteryou Vending
- Bloom Vending
- Blue River Healthy Vending
- Blue Water Vending
- Body Fuel Vending
- Brick House Vending
- Bubbles Vending Corp
- By The Bay Vending
- Candy Cottage
- Captain Vending Services
- Castle Star Vending
- Champion Vending
- Chance Vending
- Choice Vending
- Choose Healthy Vending
- Chow Tyme Vending
- Clown Baby Vending
- Coffee Rush
- Colorado Healthy Snack
- Country Wide Vending
- Cousins Vending
- Cuisine Machine
- Daily Healthy Vending
- Discovery Vending
- Dustin Vending Enterprises
- Empire Vending Group
- Encompass Vending
- Evergreen Vending
- Express Vending
- Extreme Vending
- Family Vending
- Florida Best Vending
- Florida Boy Vending
- Fox Vending Inc.
- Frenzy Refreshments
- Fresh Healthy Vending
- Fresh Vending Machines
- Fridge Fresh Vending
- Fuel For Life Vending
- Fun Size Vending
- Gator Alley Vending
- Global Vend Service
- Global Vending
- Good 4 U Healthy Vending
- Goodlife Vending
- Green & Sons Vending
- Green Apple Healthy Vending
- Guaranteed Vending
- Happy Healthy Vending
- Health-E-Choice Vending
- Healthwise Vending
- Healthy Bite Vending
- Healthy Choice Vending
- Healthy Snack Vending
- Healthy Us Vending
- Healthy Vending Iowa
- Healthy Vision Vending
- Hughes Healthy Vending
- Hunger Buster Vending
- Innovative Vending
- J & J Snack Distribution
- Jax Variety Vending
- Joseph Brothers Vending
- Justin Case Vending
- King Vending
- L & S Snack Time
- Let’s Go Vending
- Louisville Vending
- Machine Cuisine Vegas
- Mama’s Canteen Vending
- Money Vending
- Montana’s Best Vending
- Mr. Vending
- Munchies Vending
- My Sons & I Vending
- Neighborhood Healthy Vending
- New Age Vending
- New Market Vending
- Nostalgic Noshes
- Nu Health Vending
- On The Edge Vending
- One Stop Vending
- On-The-Go Vending
- Pacific Coast Healthy Vending
- Paradise Vending Service
- Pelican Vending
- Philadelphia Vending Co
- Premier Vending
- Primetime Vending
- Priority Vending
- Pro City Vending
- Prudential Vending
- Quality Vending
- Quarters Vending
- Quick Stop Vending
- Refreshment Vending
- Reliable Vending
- Revival Healthy Vending
- Rising Stars Vending
- Rocket Vending Co
- Simple Health Vending
- Sky Vending
- Smart Choices Healthy Vending
- Snack Attack Vending
- Snack Bar Vending
- Snack Machine Co.
- Snack Perfect Vending Co
- SnackShack Vending
- Southwest Vending
- Spunky Vending Service
- Star Healthy Vending
- Sunflower Vending
- Sunny’s Vending Service
- Sunshine Vending
- Supreme Vending Corp
- Sweet Tooth Vending
- Take A Break Vending
- Tasty Snack Vending
- Tasty Tech Express
- The Vending Machine Company
- Thist Quenchers
- Tops Vending
- Treat Yourself Vending
- Tristate Healthy Vending
- Tri-State Vending
- Trouble Free Treats
- Two Girls Vending
- Vender Bender
- Vending Capital
- Vending Enterprises
- Vending Kings
- Vending Masters
- Vending Unlimited
- Vending With A Purpose
- Ventura Vending
- Versatile Vending Machines
- Vitality Vending
- Warrior Vending
- Wild Hare Vending
- Wok King Fast Foods
- Yum Yum Vending
Is Your Vending Machine Name Available to Use?
At this point, you should have several top considerations to choose from. And the best way to narrow it down further is to check each one for availability.
This step is vital because using a name that someone else is using could be very costly, time-consuming to rebrand your business, and possibly embarrassing. There are several places to look to check whether a name is available to use, so let’s walk through some of the more common ones.
Can the business name be registered in your state?
If you plan to register your vending machine business name as a corporation or LLC, each state requires a unique company name.
This makes it important to search the Secretary of State’s name database in the state you plan to register to ensure your name isn’t already in use.
In most states, sole proprietorships and partnerships are required to register a Doing Business As (DBA) or Assumed Name if they aren’t doing business under the owner’s full first and last name. A few states require them to use a unique name, while others will let you pick just about any name you choose.
Related: How to check business name availability in your state
Is your business name already trademarked?
When searching for a name for your new vending machine business, you need to make sure your new name isn’t trademarked by someone else. If it is, you may not be allowed to legally use it.
Thankfully the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) makes trademark searching a breeze through their Trademark Database.
If your name is available and you want to protect it from being used by anyone else, you can register your name with the USPTO.
Related: How to check for a trademark
Is a domain name available with your business name?
A domain name is your business’s digital address. With so many people researching online, it’s crucial to make sure your vending machine business name is also available as a domain name.
Website addresses aren’t as critical as the first two searches, but it’s still worth doing as a domain can cost as little as $10 to pick up. Typically, you want your domain name to be “yourbusinessname.com” without any numbers, dashes, etc.
You can easily search for a domain using NameCheap’s domain name search tool.
Hopefully, you now have some good name ideas for naming your vending machine business. Once you have this list narrowed down to just a few and researched that they are all available, start asking friends, family, and potential customers their thoughts to get feedback, and then pick your perfect vending machine business name!