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>> after years of development and trial and error, they produced a workable system. >> the first plateau was 25 machines. that was one driver, two routes. then the next plateau was another driver. it's up to 50 sites. >> today, a year and a half after installing the first 25 machines, they have nearly 1,000 clients and ready take on the country. but how? there's no road map, no playbook. >> we really wanted to test out the ability to go to a new market where we had no connections and start from the ground up, knowing everything we knew from the first two years. >> then he got a call from nancy...

>> a man of action. he's co-founder of 4-year-old boston based lean box. a data driven vending machine for fresh food. >> thank you for your purchase. >> he has big dreams, dreams that expand beyond boston. >> our goal is to have lean box in every city in the united states and to change the way the american work force eats. >> we have great ambitions to scale the company past two cities. >> nancy sharp is the founder and owner of foot for thought, a multimillion dollar midwest catering company. recently, they formed a partnership called lean box great links, the first step toward making lean b...

Lean box relationship. >> if we were starting from ground zero, it may have taken much longer. >> after eight months, thanks to nancy's understanding of the chicago market and blue ribbon client list, lean box stations are being introduced across chicago. >> this morning, i tried the breakfast burrito. yesterday afternoon, the turkey sandwich. >> he is the president of the horton group, a chicago brokerage firm. they installed a lean box in their office break room. >> as an employer, having something here in our office encourages people to stay here and congregate. >> for us, it allowed a lot ...

Ground zero and didn't have an infrastructure in place, it may have taken much longer. >> after only eight months, thanks to nancy's understanding of the chicago market and her network of vendors and blue ribbon client list, lean box stations are now being introduced across chicago. >> this morning i tried the breakfast burrito, which was excellent. and yesterday afternoon, i had the turkey sandwich. >> dan horton is president of the horton group, a third generation owned chicago insurance brokerage firm. his company recently installed the lean box in their office break room. >> i think as an ...

40 years younger and i would do it all over again and with them. the energy, the excitement around building something. >> their personal chemistry was key to opening up the dialogue. but establishing an effective partnership requires much more than the warm fuzzys. lean box seemed like just the thing nancy was looking for. >> because of the changes that we're enacting in the work place, we're getting asked over and over again to put fresh food in the workplace, but how do you keep it refrigerated? how do you have unattended pay. all of the details that lean box brought to us. >> it's really ta...