# Five Star Breaktime Solutions

Chattanooga, Tennessee. Independent vending and micro-market routes bought a region at a time, from the owner-operators who built them, and announced by name as each one closes.

- Website: https://www.fivestarbreaktime.com

## The Firm

Five Star Breaktime Solutions, a Canteen franchise within Compass Group, runs vending, micro markets, office coffee and pantry service. It grows by buying independent operators and posts each acquisition to its own news page, naming the seller and the territory.

The sellers are the point. West Chester Vending in Ohio had been built up by its owner since 2011; the Corso routes on the Mississippi Gulf Coast came from a family distributor with decades behind it. These are one-owner businesses, which is what a searcher looking at a vending route is looking at.

So the trade has a standing buyer who moves market by market and has done this many times over. That sets what a retiring owner expects to be offered, and it gives a searcher who buys well an obvious eventual exit, which are the two things worth knowing before bidding.

## Confirmed Deals

Deals traced to announcements, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.

- West Chester Vending (2026-05-20): Fairfield, Ohio vending operation built by its owner since 2011, deepening the buyer's Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky footprint. Source: https://www.fivestarbreaktime.com/news/five-star-acquires-west-chester-vending
- F.P. Corso, Inc. vending routes (2023-03-13): Vending routes from an independent wholesale distributor and full-line operator on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Source: https://www.fivestarbreaktime.com/news/five-star-acquires-vending-business-from-corso-inc

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