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Which was ready to go. >> the first plan for us was 25 machines, two drivers, two routes. the next plateau was the driver, up to 50 sites. >> today, a year and a half after installing the first 25 machines, shea says they have nearly a thousand clients in new england and are ready to take on the country. but how? there's no road map, no playbook. >> we really wanted to test out the ability to go into a new market where it basically had no connections and start from the ground up knowing everything we knew from the first two years of our experience. >> then he got a call from nancy sharp. she w...

Started from ground zero and didn't have an infrastructure in place, it may have taken much longer. >> after eight months thanks to nancy's understanding of the chicago market and her network of vendors and blue ribbon client least, 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 break room. >> i think as an ...

I said i wish i was 40 years younger. i would do it all over again and with them. the energy and excitement around building something. >> their chemistry was key to opening up the dialogue. establishing an effective partnership requires more than the warm fuzzies. lean box is just the thing nancy was looking for. >> because of the changes in the workplace, we were asked over and over again to keep fresh food there. how do you keep it refrigerated? all the details lean box brought to us. >> it's taking a strong business model that existed, being able to jump on to a strong foundation. that was ...

Younger and would do it all over again 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 fuzzies. lean box seemed like just the thing nancy was looking for. >> because of the changes that were happening in the workplace, we were 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 the details lean box brought to us. >> it's really taking a strong busines...

He's co-founder of 4-year-old boston based lean box, a new kind of data driven vending machine for fresh food. >> thank you for your purchase. >> and he has big dreams. dreams that extend way beyond his home base in boston. >> our goal as a company is to have lean box in every major city in the entire united states and to change the way the american workforce eats. >> we also have great visions to scale the company way past two cities. >> nancy sharp is the founder and owner of chicago based food for thought, a multimillion dollar midwest catering company. recently, she and shea formed a partn...