A Chicago-based food startup called Farmer’s Fridge — which stocks wood-paneled vending machines with fresh salads and the like — must treat its machines as restaurants in miniature, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has determined.
Farmer’s Fridge recently shut down all 55 of its machines in New York, which occupy hospitals and office lobbies with a goal to provide fresh food where it might otherwise be hard to come by.
But prepared food and salad greens come with a higher risk of food-borne illness, the department emphasizes.
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