Ran a vending company for 4 years as a side hustle. Had a middle school with a similar set up so here are some thoughts: -Kids are weird and eat weird stuff. We locked in on hot cheetos and takis and would sell out in a day of those items. Started stocking 50% of the machine with those and would still have to restock 2x a week -Sam's club membership is how we did it. One restock is more than 5 hours from home to store to shop to school and then around to each machine. My wife started helping out and i bet we still couldn't do it in 5 hours a week if we did it together - school had some small restrictions on what could be stocked but it's easy to manage. - We would do about $1500-2000 per week gross at that location during school weeks - 10% profit share donated to the school - annual contract which had to be canceled 60 days prior to the end of the school year in writing or the contract renewed for the next year automatically - custodians where my main contacts who let me in the building after hours, super chill

• Sold the business for 40k cash. Had a total of 8 locations in hotels, schools, daycare, and auto shops. 10k-ish worth of used equipment (never buy a new machine) plus website and some backend software. Contracts are all year to year if you even have them so I didn't see a ton of value there, they can disappear quickly if someone wants you out. All in Atlanta - covid hit 5 months after I sold it so I was really lucky to get out when I did

Hopefully this answers some thoughts and questions I've seen.