This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Steve Slagle, a 42-year-old entrepreneur from Panama City Beach, Florida, about ice vending machines. It has been edited for length and clarity.

People love getting food from vending machines because its quick, cheap and relatively painless. They don't need to deal with a cashier or counter person; they can just grab their change and go. If ...

Owned by Janie Souter, the machine was purchased from franchise dealer Texas Ice Express after Souter and her husband, Mike, saw an advertisement for the company in The Daily Sentinel. The machines ...

Rolando Lugones’s business makes 85 tons of ice per day, and it’s still not enough. With record temperatures recently driving sweltering conditions along the eastern seaboard and parts of the south ...

SWANSEA — Babies born the last two years have come to be affectionately known as pandemic babies. Swansea resident Christopher Carreiro and his girlfriend had one too. But their little one, Owen ...

Ice House America LLC has been acquired by the investment firm Ulysses Management LLC through a controlled investment vehicle called Twice the Ice Holdings LLC. Ice House America LLC has been acquired ...