Kowals Bar & Grill
Your performance · June 2026
The four numbers operators read first
Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is −$223/mo vs the $4,955 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.
Where the money goes (June 2026)
Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $9,228 to you and $9,228 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: since the money is set by statute, operators compete for your floor on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time — not on dollars.
Where your floor stands
Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a floor where better titles and merchandising pay off.
3 peer floors sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.
Each grey dot is another Hickory Hills floor for the same month, shown without identity. The dashed lines are the statewide medians — which quadrant you land in is the positioning above, drawn out.
Trend
Cycle rate is a leading indicator: when players start cycling their money fewer times, it usually shows up here before it shows up in NTI — an early read on floor health for you and for an operator.
These are the two series a service change shows up in. Fresher titles and faster response tend to move win per unit first; hold follows the game mix. Both are your own numbers against a neutral market line — not a verdict on anyone.
Seasonality check: May → June moved −27% this year vs −27% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.
Your town's market
Hickory Hills's total gaming income is +4% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).
Your own floor is −3% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your floor.
A deeper operator read
The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your floor.
Your operator
Linked to your Location as of June 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.
Year over year
Your NTI is +9% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+4%).
Takeaways
We'll turn your profile into an anonymized Listing. Operators compete on service — never money.
Full June 2026 report detail
Source: Illinois Gaming Board monthly video gaming reports. This is public data about your own licensed Location, shown for informational purposes.