Case study

Boostbar: Vending solutions for modern workplace catering

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Boostbar is the modern food and beverage solution for the Swiss workplace. Coffee, hot meals, snacks and refreshments are available around the clock through connected vending solutions.

By combining smart vending technology with full operational service, Boostbar helps organisations offer convenient workplace catering while making food services easier to manage and scale.

Country:: Switzerland
Industry:: Vending
Our service:: Holycode product development
Client since:: 2025

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3× revenue in the self-operated workplace food segment

0 additional hires needed to support that growth

Challenge

Managing the optimal food assortment for self-operated vending locations involved a significant amount of manual work. Operators had to assess various data sources to define the right replenishment for locations in this market segment.

Because every vending location had different requirements, each new location added more repetitive work for the operations team. The process scaled almost directly with headcount, meaning that continued business growth would eventually require additional operational employees and place increasing pressure on margins.

Boostbar needed a more scalable way to manage inventory and ordering across its self-operated food segment.

Solution

The Holycode product development team worked closely with Boostbar to develop a reordering automation tool for its self-operated workplace food segment.

The solution integrates with the Vendlive API and automatically synchronises inventory, machine, product and account data.

The reordering automation tool helps Boostbar optimise replenishment by incorporating customer preferences into every reorder proposal. It combines current inventory levels, planned assortments, historical ordering trends and product availability to generate supplier orders automatically. Blocked and deactivated products are excluded automatically.

Instead of creating every supplier order manually, operators receive a pre-filled order basket that they can review, adjust and submit.

The tool also supports configurable approval processes, scheduled orders, and centralised route and delivery scheduling.

Impact

By automating the most time-consuming parts of the replenishment process, Boostbar was able to manage a significantly larger operation with the same team.

Revenue in the self-operated workplace food segment supported by the tool tripled, while no additional employees were needed to support the growth.

The reordering automation tool now manages the replenishment process end to end, from inventory synchronisation to delivery scheduling. It reduced repetitive manual work and gave Boostbar a scalable operational foundation for growing its self-operated workplace food business without expanding the back-office team.

Colin Häusler

Managing Director at Boostbar

The tool developed with Holycode gave us the operational foundation we needed to scale. By automating the reordering process and bringing everything into one system, we were able to triple revenue in the supported operations without adding to the team behind it. It allowed us to grow the business, not the back office.