I set up my first two soda machines this week (as discussed in previous posts). I don't think either of them are going to be top-performing locations but that's OK. My plan is to buy older used or refurb machines for slower locations and stock them with cans - then use my 3PO contracts with Coke and Pepsi for the better locations since they will supply newer and nicer looking equipment. The first machine I got is a single-price can machine - I placed it at an electrician office (10 employees on site, another 40 that come and go). The second is a Royal Vendors Merlin IV set to vend cans and energy drinks. This one I placed at a welding shop.

I placed several honor boxes this week and got approval to convert some of my mechanical snack machine accounts into honor box accounts. At this point I've visited nearly every honor box account and have started to collect on some. It's nice to have some positive cashflow from them finally as my bank account is really starting to run low. It looks like I may have to change my weekly Sam's Club run to twice-a-week simply so I can use the collections from the first half of the week to pay for the products needed for the second half I'll be visiting the last of the honor box accounts on this upcoming Monday.

A very busy week. Between running routes to first-time visit the honor boxes, running my regular routes in between, and doing inventory, stale sorting, and restocking of the honor boxes I've been putting in 16 hour days this week. Looking forward to slowing down a bit this upcoming week as once the initial inventory is complete on each box restocking them in the future should go much faster.

My goal for December? $8,000 gross. That's what I need to make to pay the bills. I'm hoping to hit $6k this month.