crunchydog Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Just curious as to what everyone's best location are?? Mine would have to be nursing homes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvending Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Manufacturing plants are best. Nursing homes all do well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlindVending Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, cvending said: Manufacturing plants are best. Nursing homes all do well This ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Coin laundry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labryan3 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 I'm hoping to get into a manufacturing plant but for now a nursing home is my best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bvending Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Manufacturing, large call centers and extended stay hotels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZVendor Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 For a single machine only, a hospice nurses dispatch center doing 10 cases of cans every week, consistently year round. For a short season account, a postal service Xmas flat sorting facility that we had to service twice a day for several weeks each year. A Junior high school that did $1000 each week from two snack and one soda machine every school week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitalCityVendingLLC Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 In the last year, we just picked up a couple huge gym/ymca facilities. We already had a couple of these accounts. Overall, 7 of our top 13 accounts are "gyms" in some form or fashion. I never thought it was that many near the top but it is. We have a couple "retirement homes"/"Assisted living places" that also do well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvus Corax Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Apartment complex in the middle of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 On 7/26/2017 at 6:46 PM, Corvus Corax said: Apartment complex in the middle of nowhere. Do you have problems with theft or vandalism in apartment complexes 'in the middle of nowhere'? A former employer of mine placed equipment in isolated places and man oh man it was open season on the snack machines. They'd have that glass busted out of the door in no time and everything was gone. Product, money, all of it. And we placd a cigarette machine in a long-stay motel/hotel place and in literally hours it was broken into and robbed; it happened a second time in just a couple of days and we gave up and pulled it. The guy behind the front desk seemed to think it was pretty funny. The best locations I had personally were small manufacturing places or else high-employee-density office-type places - with can vendors and often snack and/or fresh brew coffee. One of my best pop locations asked for a hot beverage machine so I installed a nice one. It did almost nothing. Turned out that throughout the place people had little coffeemakers plugged in, which they were supposed to have gotten rid of but didn't. One person asked me why the hot chicken soup from the vendor didn't have noodles. Yeah, that will work. Maybe matzoh balls too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winning123 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 On 7/23/2017 at 9:31 AM, crunchydog said: Just curious as to what everyone's best location are?? Mine would have to be nursing homes. I am assuming you are selling to the employees only or is it in a location within the facility that allows visitor access also? What's the employee count? I am curious about pursuing them, but heard they dont do too well in my area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchydog Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 Mine are accessible to everyone in the facility-workers, visitors, and residents. In the latest location the previous vending company had theirs in an employee breakroom, when I took over the account I suggested the move to a central open area so everyone can benifit from their convenience. The facility manager says that machine usage has tripled over the previous operators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 And assuming they are getting commission, it benefits them also in bigger payments. My dad with his small company installed a bank of equipment in a county courthouse / city hall. Nice new modern equipment for the time (early 70's). They didn't tell him that the area would be off limits the public and locked other than at break times. Obviously sales were pathetic. Then they came up to him and said 'you need to buy city license stickers for all your machines' which would have cost more than his gross sales for several weeks so he said 'sorry' and pulled the equipment. I can still remember a lady who worked there watching as we took the machines out, commenting 'It's not fair...' No it wasn't, for my dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I have always been amazed with how city workers often try to act like they have the authority to tell everyone what to do. No, you don't have the authority. The city does, but not you. And these are my machines so if I disagree with you, I have every right to remove them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunCandy Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 For me, machine shop's guy's work twelve hour shifts and are very bored! Six days a week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinceqc Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 It's funny because I read often you guys talking about vending machines in apartment building.In Quebec I saw this only once.It is very uncommon.My best locations are : 1. Plastic Molding Factory 80 employees 24/24 7/7 2. Tomra ( Can recycling machine manufacturer ) 80 employees 24/24 7/7 3. Toyota Dealer 4. Break room for parking attendants at Montreal Casino 40 employees ( Casino never ever closes ) 5. A Quebec Government office which is the equivalent of Securities and Exchange Commission 400 employees ( My first location ! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Ah, now this sounds like an interesting vending route! My dad and my brother and I all were in vending in the first half of the 70's and we had a number of plastics factories, they pretty much ran round the clock though some of them were very slow on weekends, especially Sundays. The rest of your locations also sound good. Probably the best location I had was a real dream - it was in the days when Burroughs was still in the computer business. That company ran a training and service facility in Oakbrook IL. I had a fresh brew Seeburg Marquee III hot bev vendor, a Vendo drop shelf snack and a Choice Vend Pepsi machine. Between them I took out at least $200 a week (in 1975), it was 6 or 7 miles from my home and I serviced the machines twice per week. I paid a pretty stiff commission but I made good money - half the sales were coffee which had a great percentage of profit. My family had good accounts in factories, furniture warehouse stores, and a couple of office-type places. Go on Google Earth Street View and 'drive' around some of the Japanese cities. They have vending machines EVERYWHERE outdoors, along back streets, by parking lots, and just everywhere. It's amazing. And somehow I suspect that they don't have the problems with theft and vandalism you see with public unattended vending locations as we do here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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