Quoted from Jkush18:Operating pinballs without any ancillary sources of revenue such as beer or atms etc is just not profitable anyway you slice it. On average newer sterns bring 100/month before retailer commissions. By the time you get your money back the game is trashed most of the time. So for my ultimate point, you really have to love Pinball to route them.
You must have some terrible locations for pinball. $100/mo BEFORE the split? Yikes. On the route I help with if we have a machine doing less than $200/mo AFTER the split, it's a candidate for being sold off and something else being brought in. I've turned the operator I help into a mercenary in that regard, and the results are paying off. If it doesn't work, move it, and if it's still not working, cut bait and move on. We're somewhat unique in that most are Prem and LE machines, but that can't be the whole difference. $100/mo pre-split would be really depressing.
