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Illinois Café & Service Company, LLC

Melrose Park · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 130700232
High play · lower holdMomentum −8%YoY −29%

Your performance · December 2024

NTI
$37,603
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$202
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$570,148
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$6,267
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,031/mo
69th pct of 8,452 IL floors
#19 of 39 in Melrose Park
Hold
7.6%
this month
state median 9.1% · below
23rd pct of 8,452 IL floors
15th pct of 39 in Melrose Park
Cycle rate
2.43×
this month
state median 2.85× · engagement
9th pct of 8,452 IL floors
23rd pct of 39 in Melrose Park
Play / machine
$82.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $44.4K/mo
77th pct of 8,452 IL floors
67th pct of 39 in Melrose Park

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,321 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,351/mo vs the $4,916 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (December 2024)

NTI this month
$37,603
Gaming tax
−$13,161
After tax
$24,442
Your take-home
$12,221
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,221 to you and $12,221 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

High play · lower hold

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.

NTI/machine — 69th percentile of 8,452 Illinois floors this month
In Melrose Park — #19 of 39 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 62nd percentile of 6,321
The Floor — you among your Melrose Park peers38 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Melrose Park peer (anonymized) statewide median

3 peer floors sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each grey dot is another Melrose Park 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

Net terminal income by monthpeak $74,428
2021
2022
2023
2024
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Melrose Park median ($33,309)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.43× · state median 2.85×
your cycle rate state median

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.

Win per unit by monthlatest $202 · Melrose Park median $179
your WPU (per machine, per day) Melrose Park median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.6% · state median 9.1%
your hold state median hold

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: November → December moved −29% this year vs −5% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Melrose Park's total gaming income is +14% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is −29% 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.

Win per unit (WPU)
$202/day
per machine · per day · Melrose Park median $179/day · +13%
WPU momentum
−5%
last 3 months $257/day vs prior 3 $271/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($62,155 avg) · softest January ($39,160 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±11% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is −16% down year over year.

Your Location
−16%
$570,148 vs $680,965 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,267 in December 2024 — the 69th percentile of 8,452 Illinois floors that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a floor on, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Melrose Park, that's #19 of 39 floors by per-terminal earnings — the fairest like-for-like, since neighbors share the same foot traffic and economy.
•Hold — the share of money played that the floor keeps — was 7.6% — below the 9.1% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. Hold is driven mostly by the games on the floor, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.43× before leaving — higher means longer, more engaged sessions. When the cycle rate starts falling it usually shows up before NTI does, so it's an early read on floor health for both sides.
•High play · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $13,161 in gaming tax, December 2024's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,221 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
•Recent momentum is softening — −8% against your trailing average.
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Full December 2024 report detail
Amount played
$495,284
Amount won
$457,681
Net wager
$37,603
Funds in
$203,796
Funds out
$166,193
Net terminal income
$37,603
NTI tax
$13,161
State share
$11,226
Municipality share
$1,935

Source: Illinois Gaming Board monthly video gaming reports. This is public data about your own licensed Location, shown for informational purposes.