04th December 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
Unused floor space makes bar owners very happy if they install coin-operated pool and foosball tables. These "matchmakers" also help to double their gross food and beverage sales and keep their customers spending money l...
03rd December 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
All pool tournament, pro tournaments and barroom tournaments are held on regulation tables. What is a regulation table? Regulation pool tables have to be exactly twice as long as they are wide.
Coin operated pool tabl...
01st December 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
In 2006 Vending Times reports the vending machine segment of this huge industry grossed forty six billion, eight hundred and twenty million dollars.
They also report that the coin operated amusement segment of the ven...
30th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
The AMS Sensit laser miss-vend system and the DEX automatic bookkeeping system are key components to your vending success.
The reason you will see several cold drink machines side by side, a Gatorade machine next to a...
26th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
Coin-operated laundries can be gold, but the self-service operations still take a lot of hard work. This type of coin-operated business has an additional factor, retail sales.
But more important is the corporate image...
25th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
Water vending was invented in the early 1970's. Big blue boxes were popping up in chain grocery stores nation wide. These boxes were simply connected to a water spick-et with a copper line and then into a new fangled osm...
24th November 2009
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Branding is a key component for success for OCS operators. One of the biggest shortfalls that OCS operators face is getting a handle on branding their company. Most operators believe that branding stops with their logo ï...
23rd November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
A few vending machine manufacturers will provide leasing to their buyers; ALL coin operated machine distributors either have an in-house lease and finance program or they outsource to multiple national providers that spe...
15th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
You want to make a big fat pile of money? Well the best way I know to do that in vending is specialize in school vending programs and hotel customer service programs.
Kids are great consumers, if they have $10 in thei...
14th November 2009
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Vendors seldom know how to design their vending-route trucks. Most Vendors just copy other companies without much real investigation. You many or may not know how to design a route vending-truck, but the real question is...
14th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
Before the glass-bottle was used in a vending machine there were only card-board-cups; these cups were filled by a rudimentary delivery system that dispensed the beverage into the cup after the buyer deposited five-cents...
11th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
I believe that Fast-Corp of New Jersey today manufactures the best frozen food machine on the market. This machine had a few problems when they first began manufacturing the machine shortly before the 1997 NAMA show.
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09th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
There is a well-known authority on business opportunity laws, Mr. Caffey,an attorney in DC, he stresses victims of business opportunity companies are granted essential rights under most state laws. There has to be a full...
03rd November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
Key locations such as hotels, schools, apartment complexes and offices are great locations to survey in your spare time.
Is not �risk� what we all are afraid of when going into a new venture? The fear of the unkn...
03rd November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Jimmy Ingram
OCS operators are no longer on the downside of the vending service business. New high-tech brewers and greatly improved coffee selections makes the OCS business a hot commodity.
Office coffee companies have really str...
