> All costs considered, an operator who makes $5k per month in revenue might take home something like $2k in profit.
I was looking for the same, the above helped me to get an idea about the net income.
This line doesn’t line up with the data also in the article. The gross margin on each product is about 40%, you then lose 15-25% on stocking the machines, plus have to pay for gas, a car, insurance, repairs, initial outlay of machines etc.
You’re getting maybe 5% net margin.
> you then lose 15-25% on stocking the machines
What? How've you come to that conclusion?
Sorry I meant on paying the owner of the place you’re putting the machine
Why do you have to be running around town stocking these machines yourself? Surely there are service companies who do this for you, just like US vending machines.