jerry1973 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 I have one of the tall (probably 7ft) gas pump style gumball machines in a cafe, and it usually does really well (~$100 per month). This month I checked it and right away noticed that it was really low on gum, and it was a huge haul on quarters ($202). How rare are locations such as this? I would buy all the gas pump gumball machines I could find if I could keep getting even $100 per month. Who else has locations like this? Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F J Vending Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 I once had a triple head in the waiting room of a hospital. Always did well, $100-$150 per month. It got moved to the cafeteria for about 18 months and dropped down to about $25. I showed up one day to service (due to a service call say hot tamales were empty) and couldn't find it. I walked around for about 15 minutes and luckily found it in a stairwell. It had about $50 in it and the HT were gone. I was confused about why it was in the stairwell but while servicing it several employees used this stairwell. I emptied a bag of HT and left. I thought there is no way this machine will do well in the stairs. I get a call 9 days later that the hot tamales were empty. I stop by about 6:30pm to fill it, while there a nurse stops and ask to make sure I keep the tamales full, she said a lot of nurses will get $1.00-$2.00 worth and snack on them during their shift. I emptied the skittles and made 2 columns HT, for the next 8 months the machine did about $200-$225 a month. It was a good run until I got the call to pick it up. The had remodeled and added a vending area but everything had to be inset into the wall. I paid $219 for that machine in 1994 and over the 5 years it was there it paid for itself many times over. Unfortunately I haven't had a triple come close to that since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry1973 Posted August 25, 2013 Author Share Posted August 25, 2013 yeah the best triple that I have is probably about $60ish, but most are $20 give or take. That big gumball machine is out performing some of my lower end snack and soda machines LOL. I would just like to have 20 or so of these accounts, and Id be sitting pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillbilly Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I've got 2 locations that have just a single gumball machine. They are both natural gas related companies. One is a pipeline layer and the other is a driller. They both do just over $100 consistently. It's really nice when you have a few of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treadmill Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 When I had my gumball route I had one location that was a carpet cleaning office in a small strip mall. The first time I serviced it it had over a $100 in it. The phone receptionist said the service guys each put in about $10 at one time per week and put them in a container and take them in the field to give to the customers kids as they clean the carpets. This was a consistant $100+ per month account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havending Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Years back a friend of mine had a very good shoe chain. He had large round globe super 60 heads on single stand all charity. I tried to tell him to work out a comm deal before he lost it all. In less than a year here came a rack guy with a comm split and he lost the whole deal last I heard he still pays rent on a few large storage places full of machines. I think it was 30 to 50 locations all doing no less than 250 a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Vending Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Years back a friend of mine had a very good shoe chain. He had large round globe super 60 heads on single stand all charity. I tried to tell him to work out a comm deal before he lost it all. In less than a year here came a rack guy with a comm split and he lost the whole deal last I heard he still pays rent on a few large storage places full of machines. I think it was 30 to 50 locations all doing no less than 250 a month. "Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry1973 Posted August 27, 2013 Author Share Posted August 27, 2013 "Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered" Yes, I was very happy to give them their 10% commission!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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