/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11815776
I’d toss a quarter into those machines on the way out of the grocery store, but I’m self conscious and don’t want people to look at me as a manchild

>>11815789
I’d put them in places with waiting areas like salons and auto shops. I feel like there is a less of stigma of buying from the candy machine in places like that. I already have a children’s haircut location secured.

Literally just children use them because parents know it will cost a mere 0.25$ to stop their whining.

>>11815776
>you know what I could really go for right now? some old stale candy from 6 months ago with bug carcasses and dust in it.

>>11815802
Lmao

>>11815797
>dollar sign after the price
are you retarded or just from the south

>>11815776
I've never understood why businesses didn't set up their own candy machines. From everything I've heard it's basically passive income, where you just go around once a month collecting the money and refilling the candy, and the hardest part is finding locations that let you set them up without competition. Literally any business could allocate the resources to do this for themselves.

>>11815880
They don't do it because it's a distraction from their core business.

Suppose I run a hardware store. Sure, I could set up a vending machine there, and I'd probably make some money doing it. But I'd make *more* money if I took that same effort and investment in my core business, hardware, instead.

...and likewise, the people who make the most money via vending are those who make it their serious business. They get better deals on the machines because they buy in bulk. Likewise for the stuff the machines sell, etc.

Stick one near a liquor store, ATM, and a cannabis dispensary if there are any in your state

>>11815933
>near a store
a candy machine outdoors will be stolen within hours.

>>11815929
That's retarded. A candy machine would be a one time purchase as opposed to the constant transactions needed to maintain the main business. Candy is cheap as fuck too and you could even refill it with stale candy if you wanted to be jewish about it

>>11815956
some business owners are just retarded and cheap and just see things like that as another expense. My old boss was cheap as fuck, still processed credit cards manually with an imprinted in 2016, wouldn’t even buy garbage bags.

>>11815956
No, it's realistic.

A candy machine is a one-time purchase, sure. But the time taken to research the best candy machine to get would be far better spent, for example, finding out which nail distributor has the lowest shipping costs to my store.

Candy is certainly not a one-time expense. I have to keep buying it over and over again. What's worse is that the sellers I normally do business with don't sell candy, so now I have to set up new accounts just to buy candy to fill the machine. It's also a huge pain in the ass to keep track of sales for accounting purposes.

t. business owner

>>11815970
your boss sounds like a huge idiot. a lot of people don't realize that by "saving money" by refusing to pay for things like a modern CC machine they actually end up costing themselves more money in other ways, such as wasted employee time. And often times that's far worse.

>>11815776
how did you get 10 candy machines for free?

>>11816004
It would take all of 10 minutes to figure out a candy machine and all of $50 every 3 months to get a 10 lb bag of runts or mike & ikes from fucking amazon. This isn't rocket appliances

>>11816057
Well then mister business wizard, you can do that at your own store.

All I know is the extra work for my accountant is going to cost a fuck of a lot more than I'll make with the meme machine.

A place I worked had machines owned by developmentally disabled guys.

>>11816057
Hardware stores already keep better candy next to the registers.

>>11816030
my friend bought a warehouse and there were many leftover odds and ends left in it. He said I could have anything in there so I took the candy dispensers and a claw machine. they all need to be cleaned and serviced although.

>>11816057
those things get clogged and break all the time and are often tedious to service.

>>11816112
>often tedious to service
I'm not the handiest of guys, but there's no way that's true.

the company that refills my candy machine went out of business so I have an empty candy machine full of quarters I cant open

>>11815859
Probably a yuro.

>>11816134
Just call a locksmith

There a bunch of them in the barber shop I frequent and the laundry area I wash my clothes at. It obviously there to keep the children quiet, especially in the age where they have their own smartphone and watch youtube. A few pieces of sugar can do what tech couldn't.

>>11816134
drill a hole into the lock. very easy if it’s a machine with a tray at the back.

how do i get free candy from these

I see parents let their kids put the coins in and buy candy all the time at the supermarket.
Parents do it because they like to see their children be happy and they know that the joy they feel is genuine at that age.

>>11816302
break the glass

>>11815929
My Ace hardware has a fridge with sodas in it for sale. BTFO

>>11816225
>>11816286
the candy machine is for charity to help find trafficking victims I dont know what to do with it

fuck no
the amount of bacteria on those exit trays has to be absolutely off the charts

my mom used to work in the courthouse building of a fairly small-med sized county and they would get complaints from lawyers and local politicians when the candy machine ran out. so set up shop there.

I only use one like this because if you get a green gumball you get 7 free bagels and I figure it's better to waste money on that than have loose change sit in my cupholders

>>11815880
Vending machines are only profitable at high volume

>>11815789
Who stigmatizes getting candy from a candy machine? Few people do that, why care about their useless opinion?

>>11815776
Due to inflation these make like no money these days

>>11816590
I’m a leaf and these machines take $1 coins so they would still be profitable, but more product would have to be dispensed per vend to justify the price.

>>11816656
sweet tooth here, i’d never surrender a loonie for some dusty candy

>>11815776
My old video store would give you a free rental if you got the purple gumball
never got one

>>11815859
that's a cents sign and it's correctly situated

>>11816855
I’d be putting jelly bellies, chocolate pistachios, dark chocolate cherries etc in machine. not shitty mike and ike’s or skittles

Go to planned Parenthood and take all their condoms. Fill the machines with condoms and stick them in bars and gas stations

>>11817060
Best idea so far.

>>11815776
I remember when I was a kid I would pick up the top of those gumball machines because sometimes they don't lock them I got a few free gumballs

>>11816390
the downside is that stale gumballs are fucking gross compared to stale mike and Ike's or hot tamales. Now if they were jawbreakers then sign me up

>>11815859
>t. stinky dumb yankee scum

>>11815776
Use gumballs or m&ms or Reese's pieces but clearly make sure you're putting them in places that have air conditioning. People don't want Mike and Ike's or the chalk stuff.

>>11817104
It's not bad, but it does involve a few extra steps.
He's going to have to stuff every one of the condoms into a prize ball, and if it's a candy machine and not a toy machine, I'm not sure even the tiny ones will work.

>>11817042
The Jellybeans would work, but the chocolate stuff will melt into one mass on a mildly warm day, or just when the sun hit it.

My workplace has two gum dispensers, one is Pomegranate gumballs that surprise everyone, and the other is tiny gumballs and chiclets that end up all over the floor because all the kids are too retarded to cup their hands when they open the door.

Just watched this a week ago. I don't know how the rest of his videos are.

https://youtu.be/aIKJ0ovPamU

>>11815776
No, they're for children.

Actually, I do use them. I sometimes put money in and walk off leaving the candy in the tray, thinking how exciting it would be to find free candy there as a kid.

>>11819020
wow based

>>11819013
I was about to post this
OP if you have a chance watch this video, gives a nice little break down about this venture

>>11816949
nice bait, no one is this retarded

>>11816338
Worked at an Ace for a few years, I loved those sodas but it took for fucking ever for our orders from Real Soda (the vendor, their website is hilariously AOL era bad).

The owner would restock some of our consumable goods from Costco, so we just restocked the candy machines ourselves. Like one anon pointed out it is an easy passive income.

>>11819013
I keep getting this retard’s videos recommended to me too on youtube

>>11819607

>>11819878
I worked at an ace in the mid-90's. It was my first job at 15. The manager, (a total milf, BTW) ran a huge candy and soda racket out of the store. She had the owner's permission to sell them, and she put a vending machine right by the front door, and sold candy and snacks at the register. She was a coupounaholic, so she bought her inventory for nearly nothing from various stores in town. She also used the store's Sam's Club card and bought stuff there. She made crazy bank.

Looking back, I'm pretty sure she shagged contractors on her lunch break on a regular basis. We also had this 80-year old who worked in the garden department. Smoked 3 packs a day. Grouchy as fuck. Every few months some tatted-up trucker or biker type dude would show up looking for her (yes, her), and would hand over a handle of Jack, which she'd keep in her locker and take swigs from from time to time.

>>11816004
>talks about candy machines being a time border due to research, buying candy, refilling and unloading monies
>all of which maybe takes a total of 40 minutes a month, buying candy would not be a monthly constant
>supreme business owner that won't waste precious time and money on silly little candy machines, instead invest it into his business
>clearly wastes time on 4chan
looooooooool

Do people actually stick their dick into those vending machines?

>>11815776
No, because (((they))) replaced them with $0.50 machines that only charge more, but still dispense the same amount of non premium candy as the old machines

>>11820790
You will always be poor

>>11820741
>coupounaholic

Can you ducking not?

>>11820819
what those brackets means?

>>11820820
Middle class family of 4, 1 income. Pretty decent if you ask me. We're not the frivolous kind, sorry, bub.

>>11820976
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>>11815933
You know ATMs don't give out quarters?

Just remember to pay the rent or else the owners of the properties you put them on can legally jack them and bust them open for the coins and candy.

>>11816069
Your accountant is retarded and lazy if they can't figure it without extra time.

>>11816949

>>11821323
charge your phone, anon

>>11819013
even as a side hustle it barely seems worth it

>>11820966
>ducking
Phone posters should kill themselves

>>11822201
Yeah, he gets excited about a set of machines scraping in around $10 a week. You'd get more sitting on the street begging for change.

OP... did you steal my 10 missing candy machines?

There used to be one near a store that had these absolute monsters. God I miss them

>>11823259
huh?

>>11822459
It’s an excuse for youtube content which he makes tens of thousand on.

>>11822220
I'm on a desktop IBM clone. I manually type out "ducking" and even speak it often.