Questions for operators of

Im building my own retrofit kit for machines mostly from the 90’s and i had a couple of questions to build it to be better aligned for the task.

If you have a few minutes, have operated or are operating vending machines, i would greatly appreciate if you could answer some or all of the following questions.

1. How many machines do you run, and what mix (snack/drink/combo/other)?
2. How do you decide when a machine gets a visit (fixed schedule, telemtry or otherwise?)
3. On a typical visit, how many slots are actually empty vs. still fine?
4. What does one service visit cost you all-in (time, fuel, labor)?
5. How often do you find best-sellers sold out on arrival, and what do you estimate that costs per machine per month?
6. Do you use Cantaloupe Seed, Nayax, or similar? What’s the monthly cost per machine?
7. If you don’t use telemetry, what’s stopping you?
8. For vending equipment, do you prefer monthly billing forever or a one-time hardware price?
9. What does equipment have to prove before you’d put it on one machine?

If anyone is interested in results send a dm, same if you are interested in what im building. Also any questions are welcome!!