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Originally posted by bhutocracy
10:30pm here.
Hey, has your brother looked further into food and drinks at his LAN place than vending machines? should be a lot more profitable to have a few fridges in there either stocked by reps or by himself with supermarket beverages.
Companies will provide him with a fridge and also pay for electricity and stock.
For instance I will probably be looking at a coke fridge (coke products - coke own juice and water etc) a milk fridge (flavoured milk and juices) an icecream freezer (stocked with all of that particular brands products) a chocolate stand a foot and a half by two feet of Cadbury's products and a candy stand/fridge.
Most companies will also guarantee a minimum sales $.
I was looking into providing chips and burgers but the costs involved are prohibitive, tens of thousands of food safety compliance things like grease traps and ventilators.
might look into 7/11 type microwavable food to be bought from supermarkets.. pre-packaged stuff.
hey.. you might not be willing to divulge this information to either me or the board - but perhaps you could ICQ me on 281373324 with a little info on the town his set up is in? even just the name so I could do some research on the size of his target market vs where I am looking at... age distribution, mean income that sort of thing?
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I do not think that he has done anymore than the vending machines at this point. I don't use ICQ and I do not want to identify the town...but I can tell you that it has a population of 25-30 thousand...is not really an upscale wealthy area...and also does not have alot of entertainment available...other than a theater. There are alot of older retired people in the area. The majority of his clients are adults (18-30's)...which suprised me but did not surprise him...as this is what he predicted. I can also tell you that while the business is profitable and is still growing...he is a little disappointed that it has not taken off in a bigger way than it has...but if I remember correctly this is only his fourth month in business and I personally think that his business is doing well for the short period of time that he has had it. He was wanting it to take off big time so that he could quit working at the college. I have reminded him that as long as growth continues it is doing OK. I told you that he had his first all nighter a while back...but this is now becoming pretty much an every week-end event now.
BTW he is coming up to see my new location a few days prior to the newyear...so I will be able to talk to him at length.