I visited an inmate at chowchilla women's prison. Was looking forward to having a decent lunch with her. But Adam's vending requires you to put cash on a card to use at the vending machines. At the end of the visit Adam's has a refund machine so that money you didn't spend at the very expensive machines with very mediocre food, can be returned to you. However it was very troublesome because the refund machine has been out of order for over 3 months with no scheduled repair date. This is very unfair as I traveled over 5 hours to get there and then was stuck, unable to get my cash off the card for my return travel. Tried to contact Adam's vending without success. Shame on Adam's vending for not maintaining the refund machine. It's not fair that you keep our money in your accounts collecting interest and use of our funds while making the user suffer. Please repair machine asap and maintain machines in good working order. Terrible for your machine to be out of order for over 3 months. Maybe your state contract should be reviewed and a new vendor hired. You provide a service and insure that your service is good and consistent and well maintained. read more

If I could give 0 starts I would. This vendor is a complete rip off! He continues to steal from poor people who are suffering already. $5.75 for 4 pancakes with only 1 syrup and 2 butters (we had to fight for the extra butter too). $7 for 1 small burrito $7 for a salad $7 a hamburger (nothing else with it) $1.75 for condiments (2 small ranch cups) $3.50 for 1/4lbs of fruit (grapes, cantelope, strawberries, & watermelon) $5.50 for an icecream bar $4 for french fries (that cost $1 in the store) Every weekend he continues to raise his prices more and more. read more

I visited a woman in the Chowchilla prison on Sunday and it is a wonderful treat for the prisoners to have the opportunity to have fresh fruit. I paid $3.50 in the vending machine for two oranges. They had both gone through the frost or had been frozen at some time and were not edible in any way. This is not acceptable!!!!! Shame on you Adams Vending!!!!! read more