Abstract: A coin-controlled dispenser for heated cans of food or beverage has separate heat-insulated chutes for holding cans of different commodities. Each chute is divided by a heat-barrier into an upper unheated storage section and a lower can-heating section. Coin-controlled apparatus of known construction releases the lowermost one of several cans from the lower heating section and substantially simultaneously releases the lowermost can from the upper unheated storage section to maintain in the heating section only the number of cans desired to be therein in anticipation of daily sales, whereby the quality of the heated commodities will be protected against quality-lowering prolonged heating.