The airport vending company at JFK, EWR, and LGA.

Forty-plus years on the ramp

AVS started in 1982, serving employee breakrooms at the three major NYC airports. The accounts we picked up in the ‘80s and ‘90s are largely still with us, not because we have the flashiest marketing in the industry, but because we show up. Vending companies that don't show up don't last forty-plus years inside an airport.

Bought, not built. Kept the team.

Seth Danberry and Anthony DeLucia acquired AVS in 2022. The decision wasn't to flip it, scale it nationally, or tear out what worked. It was to invest in what made the company defensible (the airside access, the credentialed team, the long relationships) and modernize the parts that were getting tired: equipment, technology, web presence. Most of the operations team that ran AVS before the acquisition still runs it now.

Airports are home base, not a hard line

The bulk of our work is at JFK, EWR, and LGA, and that's by design. But some of our best accounts aren't on an airport at all: large warehouses, distribution hubs, and operations sites near our home base where the model fits cleanly. The pattern is the same whether it's a terminal, a ramp, or a distribution dock: large captured-employee pool, near our home base, with reliable access. If your site looks like that (airport-side or not), we'd love to talk. Sites well outside our home base might be a stretch; we'll tell you straight either way.

What we believe makes the difference

• The route, not the machine. Anyone can sell you a vending machine. Few can stock it before the 4am shift comes on.
• One point of contact. If something's wrong, you call your rep, not a national 800 number routed through three vendors.
• The long view. We'd rather lose a marginal account than win it on a price we can't service profitably. The accounts we keep, we keep for decades.

The warehouse and the trucks

Our operations are run out of 144-24 156th Street, Jamaica, NY. Within sight of JFK, by design. From there, our SIDA-credentialed technicians and Port Authority plated trucks can be on the ramp in minutes, not in a staging line. A smaller satellite warehouse on Frelinghuysen Ave in Newark serves select NJ accounts close to EWR, but the bulk of our routing across all three airports, LGA included, runs out of Jamaica. Our corporate office sits in Union, NJ, central to EWR.

Independent, by design

AVS is an independently operated company. Seth and Anthony also run a holding group called Group One LLC and several related businesses, and AVS works alongside them in some operational ways. But AVS is not part of Group One, and our business model and customer relationships stand on their own. The same operational discipline that runs Group One's other companies runs AVS, but the customer-facing entity is, and stays, AVS.