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Originally Posted by theking
Your friend provided good information. Maintaining the machines is number one on the list..due to ordinary equipment failure as well as the additional problems of break in/vandalism.
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The typical non electrical machines do not have much equipment failure, and thanks to the addition of adding a clutch to the spinner, it greatly reduces vandalism by people attempting to reverse spin your crank with a wrench.
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Originally Posted by Penrod
If you are looking to get into the ATM business let me know.
Here is my site: www.atmexperts.com |
Bookmarked it to take a good look latter. As I said no plans on quick expansions, especially into high end (expensive) machines. Without even looking I would presume I could get hundreds of my current machine type versus 1 of those.
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Originally Posted by geedub
before porn i've worked in warehouses and factories and there is one thing i can tell you about vendors that blue collar people love.. if they consider the input of the people buying the shit. we would always request items get stocked because it was never the same, when the dudes would do it they sold a lot more every time. another place the vending guy wouldn't do it and everyone thought he was a knob. load your machines to cater to the requests of the places employees/people who will use the machine, you will get them for sure. for the right prices/supplies those machines empty themselves
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Yeah, I already have his spreadsheets that detail what people like, but more importantly things that are a "do not stock". Like nuts for instance - which will require special cleaning if a new machine is brought in, plus also alterations in the route to ensure you have not handled nuts before visiting that location.
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Originally Posted by GetNaughty
Interesting stuff. I have a few mainstream things lined up too, one of them being Italian ice carts.  |
Nice business, here it would be very seasonal. My brother did coffee carts pretty early on. Made a killing with his kiosks in the malls. Problem he had was the locations he worked made a killing, the locations that were hired help made much less and had tendencies to be low on cups versus sales, etc. Which we all know is giving free ones away. For myself that would be to much work and not passive enough. Unless of course you landed some great workers. I do know just about all types of carts can make a killing, even with super crazy city rents if your on the streets.
Now we have looked into food service trucks/trailers. These would work the fair circuits we have here, and we have a whole lot of those without even venturing that far north or south in California. Again would be lots of travel for them, would need solid employee's. Yet I know they make a killing too. Was chatting it up with one owner, one of the few that did breakfasts as well as lunch types. They specialized in "English/Scottish" food. Bangers, Shepard's pie, that sort of stuff.
At a smaller event he may only do 200-300 breakfasts, at an event like the Scottish games, he would do 1500-3000 servings of breakfast alone. Roughly 5 to 8 bucks a pop without drink. Just was crazy thinking about it.
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Originally Posted by Exotic Gold
There's a guy who lives on a corner lot near my nephew's junior high school and he has 3-4 machines against the back wall of his garage. Before and after school he cranks open the door and cleans up.
A while back I saw him out there re-stocking and asked him how much he made off them - he told me during the school year the machines pay his mortgage and utilities.
Fucking genius.
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It is all location really. Schools are a whole new matter though. Especially since they now demand healthy food as per law. Caused many contract issues and quick swaps. Still can be gotten into by any size company thanks to bidding and other Government adjustments such as a woman owned business.