WillisNYC Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 This past week was by far the warmest since last summer here in New Jersey. If you have been following my revenue reports you would know that I put in 7 new service stations in the month of March. Several of them were promising in their results last week but I was blown away by what I saw today! Most of you old timers may seem blase about it, but I have never had any single machine do $100 in a week and this past 6 day week I had TWO of my outside service station soda machines do it! Both are stand alone machines on busy highways near me. The best one grossed $133 and the other one did $115. Best of all, this was their third week of operation. Snapple machines are going in beside them tomorrow in one location and the other in the near future. On the flip side, two of my seven locations were absolute dogs. In this first, 'hot' week of 2010 one did $5 and the other did $11. Since I have 5 more service stations going into service for me in the next two weeks, they are both being moved, so no big losses for me. I think the worst I should accept for a week like last week would be $30 and my 'average' outside soda machine should do at least $45. Regardless I am stoked about these two new locations and am looking forward to finding several more like these this summer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Congrats, you've been working your butt off since last year. It's good to see you have some real success. It sure makes it easier to get up and leave the cave in the morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qualityvs Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Congrats on the success! Heck I could stand a few more machines doing that myself. The last vending company I worked for had 2 different machines that, I know of, brought in over $100K a year. I could definitely use some of them. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurtsman Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Way to go! Stories like yours make the idea of doing full line vending much more interesting. I really think in 2011 or 2012 I'll have to get into it. Getting 50 machines out there is going to put you in great shape financially. Occasionally I find locations that I think would be great. This tempts me to talk to one of the business owners. Did you acquire these locations yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillisNYC Posted April 7, 2010 Author Share Posted April 7, 2010 So far all locations have been garnered by myself. I am currently attempting to buy a route put together by another vending company, but I don't know if it will be completed or not. Regardless I am continuing to self locate my equipment and seeming to do OK. It was nice to finally hit a couple big winners since I have lots of 'average' accounts and a few losers. And am in the process of moving the losers. Qualityvs...$100k from a single machine sounds crazy! Did they fill the machine every day to get sales that high? I can only dream of a machine that needs to be refilled more than once a week, let alone every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaletail116 Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Nice job, Willis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spdydre Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Thats awesome I hope I can get an account that makes alot soon. Its true its all about location I know a guy down here making over $800 gross a month off one can soda machine. Imagine 50 of those lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Qualityvs...$100k from a single machine sounds crazy! Did they fill the machine every day to get sales that high? I can only dream of a machine that needs to be refilled more than once a week, let alone every day. Actually it's quite possible A guy I know in Corpus Christi has one of the refineries down there and when they do a shutdown he has to almost live at the plant. He services the lunch and break areas, goes back and reloads the truck and then goes back out and refills the machines again. They will have anywhere from 800-1000 men there 24/7 for as long as it takes to get whatever it is they need to do done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillisNYC Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 I love hot weather! I set up the two Snapple machines in spots I serviced yesterday and I went ahead and 'checked' my coke machines while there. The one day take was $35 at my high grossing machine ($135 last week) and $20 at one that did $80 last week. Been a long time since I thought that 90 degrees in April was a good thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qualityvs Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Qualityvs...$100k from a single machine sounds crazy! Did they fill the machine every day to get sales that high? I can only dream of a machine that needs to be refilled more than once a week, let alone every day. One of the machines was a full size snack that was filled 3 times a day every day. Place had a full service kitchen in it and this was the only vending machine on site. The other was cold drink machine (one that mixes the drink for you after you purchase it) that had an attendant there every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillisNYC Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 If I own just one machine that does half that much business in a year and needs to be filled three times a week I will be totally ecstatic. One can only dream but that is why we start our own businesses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beach Bum Vending Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 willis Do you have commision or charity accounts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillisNYC Posted April 9, 2010 Author Share Posted April 9, 2010 hi snvend....I do commission of 10% on most of my service stations. All of my office or warehouse locations are commission and charity free! I don't know of many full line vendors doing charity ...but I do offer to place machines for any charity that is begging for my change at the grocery store. I tell them if their organization has a place that will support a soda machine, I will donate 10% of the gross on that machine to their organization. So far the firefighters (volunteer) and girl scouts I have offered that to, have not responded with placements, but it does get them off my case when I meet them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reel Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Whats the average take for a large soda machine only in the states?, my best location here is located in the lunchroom of a office with a factory attached where most of the factory workers are offsite most days, its serviced weekly and averages in excess of A$250 each week, 3 weeks ago it did A$360 for a week, thats 5 days trading, this happenend because the offsite workers were doing inhouse training that week. This machine is an electronic 10 select Royal. Although like all i do have some rubbish sites where we have some small mechanical drink machines turning over less than A$30 each week, this is no so bad as i only service once per fortnight and the capital outlay for these older machines are far less. If coke and pepsi did third party vending here like they do in the us our business would grow at an incredibly faster rate, you american based vendors are very lucky to have this option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillisNYC Posted April 10, 2010 Author Share Posted April 10, 2010 In my experience, which is limited to less than a year in business, my 'average' machines do around $45-$60/ week in an office or an average service station location. A good to great machine does $100/wk. My soda machines in outside service stations at least double or triple the amount of business they do when the weather is hot vs cold to average weather so an 'average' is tough to figure since the take varies so much according to the weather. I post figures in the full line revenue report section monthly now and that should also show some 'average' numbers for soda machines at least here in NJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fogcity Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Willis -- Do the service stations where you've been placing your drink machines have 24 hour stores at them where customers can also purchase coffee, cokes, snacks etc. ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillisNYC Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 Hi Fog, My service stations are all ones that do not have convenience stores. Several of my owners have service stations with convenience stores, however they have their own coolers inside with my products and don't want my machines outside the door competing with their goods inside. So around my town, wherever there is a service station with lots of traffic and no store, that is where I am placing my machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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