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Boston-based food box, a 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 is to have a lean box in every state in the united states and change the way the workforce eats. >> we have great envisions to scale the company way past two cities. >> nancy sharp is the founder of food for thought, a multimillion midwest catering company. recently she and shea formed a partnership called lean box great lakes. it's the first step toward make leanbox a national brand. >> it is always a little nerve...

They produced a workable system which was ready to go. >> the first plateau for us was 25 machines. 25 was basically one driver, two routes. and then the next plateau was another driver. let's get up to 50 sites. >> today, a year and a half after installing the first 25 machines. shea says they now have nearly 1,000 clients in new england, and they're 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 we basically had no connections and start from the ground up knowing everything we knew from the fi...