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Im in the process of starting a bulk candy route so I can build a savings for my 2 nieces age 3 and 2. At the moment I have 3 locations, 1 restaurant, 1 auto shop, and 1 motorcycle dealership. I've waited 2 weeks before checking my first location I placed. I went to check today, which has a double bulk head dispensing Reese's and Skittles. I collected $12.25 total and my bulk heads were at least still 3/4 full. So I'm guessing monthly this location will be doing around $25. Is that good earnings for 2 weeks? I don't expect a lot, but I would just like to know if this would be considered a good location, or a low earning location?

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Im in the process of starting a bulk candy route so I can build a savings for my 2 nieces age 3 and 2. At the moment I have 3 locations, 1 restaurant, 1 auto shop, and 1 motorcycle dealership. I've waited 2 weeks before checking my first location I placed. I went to check today, which has a double bulk head dispensing Reese's and Skittles. I collected $12.25 total and my bulk heads were at least still 3/4 full. So I'm guessing monthly this location will be doing around $25. Is that good earnings for 2 weeks? I don't expect a lot, but I would just like to know if this would be considered a good location, or a low earning location?

 

Im in the process of starting a bulk candy route so I can build a savings for my 2 nieces age 3 and 2. At the moment I have 3 locations, 1 restaurant, 1 auto shop, and 1 motorcycle dealership. I've waited 2 weeks before checking my first location I placed. I went to check today, which has a double bulk head dispensing Reese's and Skittles. I collected $12.25 total and my bulk heads were at least still 3/4 full. So I'm guessing monthly this location will be doing around $25. Is that good earnings for 2 weeks? I don't expect a lot, but I would just like to know if this would be considered a good location, or a low earning location?

Pretty good for 2 weeks, but there is still a newness factor. Averages will probably go down some. Good luck And welcome to TVF.

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Hey,

I am new also. If you count only having one machine where I work at for one year, someone taking a screwdriver to the lock (NW 60), putting it on display in my living room, buying four used Beavers with two stands the next year and placing them at the downtown office and uptown office and watching what happens.

Just by doing this I have learned a couple of things:

I make sure that every one knows that it makes me happy to see someone else happy for a quarter,

I learned that Beaver locks are harder to get into (maybe)

I learned they respect the machines better and actually they make more money (at least the little experiance that I have).

My first machine is a Norwestern 60 painted with red and white coca cola designs. Looks nice but no one hardly used it and the candy would stale quicker. What it made in three months now only takes 2-4 weeks with the Beavers. Don't know why? Could have been product?

Now I sell Black cherry gumballs, Peanut M&M's, Peanut M&M's mixed with Peanut butter M&M's, and Peanut M&M's mixed with chocolate covered blueberry's. Keep in mind there are only 7 employees downtown and 7 employees uptown with maybe only 5 who regularly put money in. I probably still make $40 a month profit. Sometimes I have pulled out as much as $30 out of one machine. Imagine what it would do with regular traffic or more employees?

I don't know which location you were referring to, but my point is sometimes they have to warm up to you to get more business. I learned quickly that when it was time to collect. I would take out a cupful of the previous 3 week old candy and leave it all out free for anyone to get. They return the gratitude by more vends the next cycle. They have to warm up to you and you have to warm up to them.

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