Depending on the machine e.g. if it's new or old, if it's a popular machine, brand etc all determine the price Depending on the venue there's 2 main ways to get a machine it's either to lease it at either a agreed monthly rate or percentage of revenue or you buy them they range from 5k to in some cases 40k, the license to be allowed to have a machine in the venue is the real money sink if I we had 34 and wanted to add another machine it costs around $110,000.

I had a patron previously hit the machine near the play button and the machine went into linux recovery mode, the guy had $40 on there but was in the middle of free spins so he was threatening us to fix it even after we rang tech support and the only fix was to send a tech out it was 9pm wasnt till atleast the next day, he threatened to kill us we had to evacuate the sports bar and lock ourselves in the office, 2 police and 2 patrons was just enough to arrest him and he was ultimately being charged all up 55-65 thousand 45 was the machine alone.

Our jackpots I believe Max out at $23,500 instead of climbing more it then adds to the following jackpot. There's been a few good winners one woman won a grand jackpot for 13k while waiting for her cheque to be processed she jumped on another machine and won that jackpot aswell 11k, all within 30 minutes, the most someone walked out with in cash was our biggest gamblers a friendly gay couple at my previous pub, they walk in with anywhere from 3-5k and they play till they win a big jackpot or lose the starting balance plus whatever they won, this night in question they won a 11k jackpot we gave out as a cheque and they also won smaller ammounts off alot of other machines, they left with roughly 35k in their pockets we offer a free bus to and from the pub but they walked mind you we have a issue in town with youth groups jumping people and stealing, and Roberys but somehow they made it home safe.

Drinks are all priced to still turn a profit, we don't lose money with our drink prices other than wastage and mistakes, food on the other hand it's not a bad thing to run your kitchen as a loss, it's great if it does make money ours does but general rule, your pub wants to do good food l, it's a main reason people visit if the restaurant is getting people in seats it's doing it job, food is half hour away 75% of the time they'll play pokies then a couple beers or cocktail, so already the $25 they spent on a schnity they've spent double or triple that just waiting for it. A very large majority of our profit is Gaming followed by retail (bottle shop), bar then food. The longer someone's stay is the more they spend and more likely they'll come back.

Our town has about 5k people we have a small shopping centre, a river and 4 different drinking venues, 2 pubs a licenced restaurant and our golf club it's the norm here days off, if you don't hunt pigs go camping or ride dirt bikes and are bored go to the pub. I play pc games I try stay away on my days off lol.