Leveraging food, service, and experience, backed by industry-leading technology
As the largest unattended retail provider in the U.S., we leverage design expertise, consumer insights, and the latest in product and equipment innovation to help you create a better workplace and connect your employees. Whether your team is looking for great coffee to kick-start their morning, grab a quick meal, or indulge in their favorite snack, Canteen covers it all with convenience and great service.
Portfolio of Options
We offer service across multiple lines of business, including micro-markets, traditional vending, specialty coffee, pantry services, and culinary.
Food without Friction
Our goal is to provide the food you want when you want it through your preferred method of payment and delivery—a concept we call food without friction.
Market Leader
We have led our industry for 90+ years and are the only truly national service provider with over 225 distribution locations across 48 states.
98% Retention Rate
We work hard to ensure our partnership offers long-term commitment.
Give your workplace the community your team needs to connect and collaborate. Build a space where conversation can flow and creativity flourish. We design breakrooms that fit your space's unique style using the latest trends. Combined with delicious meals, snacks, and hot or cold beverages, our breakrooms will surely be your associates' new favorite place.
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market locations
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office coffee locations
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connected vending machines
These are just some of the community spaces we've designed.
We're happy to discuss your space and answer any questions.
Check out the latest happenings from Canteen
Celebrate National Gluten-Free Day with Partake
January 13th is National Gluten-Free Day! To celebrate, we’re highlighting Partake and its fantastic line of gluten-free snacks. Denise Woodard founded Partake in 2016 as a mom who wanted to create snacks that her daughter, Vivienne (Vivi), could safely enjoy without worrying about her food allergies. Let’s take a look at why Partake is such…
Chef Nicole Smathers’s Hot Cocoa Cupcakes
Cocoa mix cupcakes topped with chocolate frosting and marshmallows
Boldly Giving with BLK & Bold
Our friends and partners at BLK & Bold have built a powerful brand behind a simple concept: daily rituals with social impacts. Co-founders Pernell Cezar and Rod Johnson, lifetime friends and coffee fanatics, pour into a company model that takes delicious coffee and uses it to provide for and shape the future through children across America. How…
BLK & Bold’s Cookie Butter Cold Brew Recipe
Cookies aren’t reserved exclusively for a post-dinner treat. Kick your day off with cookies with this cookie butter cold brew.
Naughty or Nice Chai
Whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, you can still enjoy the crisp taste of a hot chai, smoothly blending sweet and spicy to make for a happy holiday.
This Mother-Daughter Coffee Team is Advocating for Sloth-Safe Coffee Farming
Great coffee, diversity and gender equality, sustainability, and sloths. How are these four seemingly random topics even remotely related? Well, the mother-daughter team at New York-based Bean & Bean Coffee Roasters dabbles in each and does a pretty good job at it. We sat down with Jiyoon Han, who, with her mom, Rachel, brings this…
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage & Latinx Heritage Month with Back of the Yards Coffee Co.
Our suppliers’ coffee is what keeps us going… quite literally! We’re honored to work with coffee roasters whose mission is to give back to the communities in which they’re based. This Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, we celebrate Back of the Yards Coffee Co., a Latinx-owned coffee business based in Chicago. We sat down with…
Best Guac on the Block Recipe
This is a quick and easy guacamole recipe by our chef, Mat Skinner, with a few "secret" ingredients to give it some extra flavor.
Offices of the Future: Thoughts on Design
The workspace is changing. In a time when WFH culture is center stage, offices are adapting to provide the best experience to their occupants. No, the collaborative workplace isn’t going anywhere, but these large-scale trends shape how we think about productivity and purpose within our office walls. Our creative director, Mark Kaminski, and his team…
Ready-To-Drink (RTD) Cold Brew is the New Hottest Coffee Trend
Convenience is key – that’s the thought behind one of coffee’s hottest trends, RTD Coffee. Ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee refers to canned or bottled cold coffee products sealed for whenever you’re ready to sip. In 2019, the global RTD coffee market was valued at $22.4 billion U.S. dollars and is expected to reach $42.4 billion by…