The 90-minute snack run
A crew truck leaves site for gravel-road town runs. Every departure is windshield time your insurer prices — and time your schedule loses.
Remote camps & industrial sites · Canada
Bringing essentials to your remote workforce.
Cache deploys self-contained seacan vending units — WiFi, power, security cameras and card-operated machines stocked with cold energy drinks and snacks — directly to your crews. Fewer offsite trips means fewer road incidents, less liability and a workforce that stays on site.
- units in service
- 12
- units in service
- site-to-stocked
- 72 h
- site-to-stocked
- crew access
- 24/7
- crew access
- workers per site minimum
- 8+
- workers per site minimum
Cache Unit · 20 ft configuration Monitored 24/7
Built for operators like these
Northgate EnergyBoreal AggregateSlave Lake Pipeline Co.Cordillera MiningPeace River CampsTrailhead Civil WorksNorthgate EnergyBoreal AggregateSlave Lake Pipeline Co.Cordillera MiningPeace River CampsTrailhead Civil Works
Illustrative names shown while pilots are under NDA.
The real cost
A snack run is a road trip you already own the risk for.
On a remote lease there is no corner store. So crews drive — at shift change, in the dark, on gravel, in winter. Cache removes the reason to leave.
Fatigue at shift change
Night-shift driving after twelve hours on tools is the highest-risk hour of the day. Removing the reason to drive removes the exposure.
Uncontrolled departures
Once a worker is off your lease, you lose muster accuracy, journey management and any camera coverage of what happens next.
What ships
One container. Everything a crew needs between shifts.
No kitchen, no building permit, no permanent structure. It arrives built, and it leaves when the workfront does.
Site WiFi at the unit
A managed hotspot at the container gives crews a place to call home during breaks — one of the strongest morale levers on a remote rotation.
Power tie-in or standalone
Runs off your camp grid, a genset, or the unit's own solar and battery package. No building, no slab, no kitchen required.
Recorded camera coverage
Interior and exterior cameras with 24/7 recording turn a supply point into a monitored asset — useful for both shrink and incident review.
Card-operated, cashless
Tap-to-pay machines mean no float, no cash handling and no petty-cash policy. Crews pay for their own product; you pay for the service.
Cold drinks, real snacks
Chilled energy drinks, electrolytes, water and shelf-stable food kept at temperature year-round — including at −35 °C outside.
Telemetry and restock routes
Live stock levels, door events, temperature and uptime feed our restock routing, so the unit is topped up before a slot ever runs dry.
Positioning
We sell liability reduction. The cold drinks are how we deliver it.
Catering contracts are priced per meal or per bed. Cache is priced against the claim you don't file. A deployed unit is a risk control that sits on your lease, records what happens around it, and takes vehicle trips off industrial roads every single shift.
- Fewer vehicle-kilometres attributable to non-work travel
- Better muster accuracy — crews stay inside the gate
- Camera coverage of a high-traffic point on the lease
- A morale and retention lever on fly-in rotations
Avoided-claim model
Sample- Assumed cost of one lost-time vehicle incident
- $92,000
- Offsite trips removed per unit, per month
- ≈ 240
- Cache deployed unit
- $4,000 / mo
One avoided incident ≈ 23 months of a deployed unit.
That is the entire pitch. Everything else is logistics.
Illustrative model using sample figures for layout purposes. Not a forecast, quote or guarantee of insurance outcomes.
Where we fit
Built for the sites the big contracts skip.
Full-service camp catering is excellent at lodge scale. It is not designed for a twenty-person spread, a two-month workfront, or a crew that gets hungry at 02:00.
| Capability | Cache | Aramark / Compass (ESS) | Canteen / Compass Group Canada | Civeo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deploys without a camp kitchen or building | Yes | No | No | No |
| Crew access between meal windows | 24/7 | Meal windows | Business hours | Camp hours |
| Viable headcount to serve | From 8 workers | Camp scale | Facility scale | Lodge scale |
| Time from contract to serving crews | ~72 hours | Weeks–months | Weeks | Months |
| WiFi, power and cameras included in the unit | Yes | No | No | No |
| Sold and priced as a liability control | Yes | No | No | No |
| Relocates with the workfront | Yes | No | No | Limited |
Comparison describes Cache's positioning against the publicly described service models of Aramark / Compass (ESS), Canteen / Compass Group Canada and Civeo. Third-party names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification only.
Deployment
From site walk to stocked in about 72 hours.
01
Site walk and risk review
We map crew count, shift pattern, distance to the nearest retail and your current offsite-trip frequency, then size the unit and product mix.
02
Drop and connect
The seacan arrives fully built. Set it on grade, tie into power or run standalone, bring up WiFi and cameras. Typically stocked within 72 hours.
03
Stocked and monitored
We handle restock runs, machine service and reporting. You get a monthly summary of usage, uptime and trips removed from the road.
Scaling from 12 units today toward 120 across Western Canada — waitlist order sets deployment priority by region.
Pricing
One line item. One deployed unit.
Employers pay a monthly site-lease and service fee. Crews pay by tap for what they buy. No cash, no float, no capital outlay.
Deployed seacan unit
$4,000/ month, per unit
Blended monthly figure combining the employer site-lease and service fee with product margin from card-operated sales. Volume terms from five units.
- Seacan unit lease, delivery and placement
- Two card-operated machines, cashless tap-to-pay
- Managed WiFi hotspot for the crew
- Power tie-in or solar and battery package
- Interior and exterior cameras, 24/7 recording
- Restock runs, machine service and cold-chain checks
- Monthly usage, uptime and trips-removed report
Multi-site programme
Talk to usCustom
For operators running five to 120 units across a region. Fleet-level reporting, regional restock routing, shared deployment planning with your HSE team and a standing quarterly risk review.
From the field
What operators tell us.
Placeholder quotes shown for layout.
Named pilot stories publish after the current rollout.
“The unit paid for itself the first month we stopped signing out a truck for town runs. Our journey-management log got quieter, which is the number my insurer actually reads.”
“We looked at a full camp catering contract and the headcount maths never worked for a 20-person spread. Cache dropped a container and we were serving crews the same week.”
“Cold drinks and WiFi at the workfront sounds small until you see the retention numbers on a fly-in rotation. It is the cheapest morale line item we run.”
FAQ
Questions we get on every site walk.
Something not covered here? Add your site to the waitlist and we'll answer it in the review call.
What exactly is a Cache unit?
A modified sea container (seacan) built out as a self-contained amenity point: two card-operated vending machines stocked with cold drinks and snacks, a managed WiFi hotspot, interior and exterior security cameras, lighting, climate control and a power tie-in. It ships as one piece and needs no building, slab or kitchen.
Why is this a safety purchase and not a snack purchase?
The value is in the trips that stop happening. Every offsite run for drinks or food is windshield time on industrial and gravel roads, usually at the end of a long shift. Removing the reason to leave the lease removes the exposure — which is why operators fund Cache out of safety and risk budgets rather than catering.
How small a site can you serve?
We deploy from roughly eight workers on site. Camp caterers and lodge operators need far higher headcount to justify a kitchen, which is exactly the gap Cache is built for.
Does it work through a Canadian winter?
Yes. Units are insulated and climate-controlled so product stays at temperature in deep cold, and the machines are specified for cold-weather operation. Cold-chain and uptime are monitored remotely.
Who pays — the employer or the worker?
Both, in different ways. The employer pays a monthly site-lease and service fee for the unit, connectivity, cameras and servicing. Crews pay for the product they buy at the machine by tap. There is no cash on site.
What happens when the workfront moves?
The unit moves with it. Because it is a container on skids rather than a permanent structure, relocation is a truck and a picker — not a demobilisation project.
Get started
Put a unit on your lease.
Tell us where your crews are. We'll come back with a deployment window for your region and a short review of the offsite trips a unit would take off the road.
Waitlist position sets regional deployment priority.