365 Retail Markets: The Original Industry Game-Changer and Future of Self-Service Technology Innovations
It’s 2008 (wow, thirteen years ago?)— a year of technology improvements that introduced us to a convenience we didn’t even know we needed. The all-new iPhone 3G brought convenience right to our fingertips.
This type of new technology and convenience gave way to what Joe Hessling, Founder, and CEO of 365 Retail Markets, saw as a huge opportunity; bring innovation never seen before to the foodservice industry. His idea was to develop a way for consumers to grab food and go, enhance market experiences, and develop best-in-class self-service technologies.
365 quickly grew to become the global leader in the MicroMarket industry with their foodservice convenience technologies ranging from MicroMarkets to vending to mobile to dining to coolers and beyond.
Their award-winning MicroMarket technologies, Gen3/Gen3c, Nanomarket™, and 365Beacon connect consumers to healthy, fresh snacks 24/7 with multiple ways to pay and use one account via the 365Pay app to seamless checkout.
With 365’s most recent self-service innovation, operators can provide their consumers with anywhere and everywhere convenience with its flexibility to provide access controlled fresh and healthy cold snack options or advanced vending technology for this decade and the future.
In addition to 365’s dining technology, they saw a huge opportunity to innovate even more! In September 2019, 365 acquired Company Kitchen, which expanded their leadership position by enhancing self-service dining with CK’s premier customer engagement, dining, and self-service technologies. Together they have driven the self-service industry forward with new technology and new customers.
The new all-in-one 365Dining platform enhances traditional cafeterias and brings consumers and operators more to the café table with forward-thinking online/mobile ordering capabilities and scalable and customizable technology.
To further their industry superiority and provide their partners with more convenience opportunities, 365 acquired Stockwell in August 2020. This acquisition provided 365 with Stockwell’s retail platform that focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision.
365’s self-service technologies even expand into OCS/Pantry, which is a growing and high-demand sector.
Today, 365 is the global self-service convenience technology leader who provides the heart of thousands of operations and a partnership dedicated to operators and their success. 365 Retail Markets is proud to partner with other leading companies to provide their operators and their consumers with an overall self-service experience wherever they may be.
Learn more about how 365 continues to change the foodservice industry with its self-service technologies: www.365retailmarkets.com
