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Illinois Café & Service Company, LLC

Dolton · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 130705588
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High play · high holdMomentum +10%YoY −0%

Your performance · March 2025

NTI
$67,707
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$364
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$638,215
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$11,284
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,490/mo
88th pct of 8,510 IL locations
#2 of 15 in Dolton
Hold
9.3%
this month
state median 9.2% · above
52nd pct of 8,510 IL locations
53rd pct of 15 in Dolton
Cycle rate
2.65×
this month
state median 2.83× · engagement
27th pct of 8,510 IL locations
70th pct of 15 in Dolton
Play / machine
$121.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $48.8K/mo
87th pct of 8,510 IL locations
93rd pct of 15 in Dolton

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,400 of them), your NTI/machine is +$5,829/mo vs the $5,456 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (March 2025)

NTI this month
$67,707
Gaming tax
−$23,697
After tax
$44,009
Your take-home
$22,005
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$23,697 · 35%Operator's 50%$22,005 · 32%Yours, 50%$22,005 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $22,005 to you and $22,005 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: with the split set by statute, operators compete for your gameset on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time.

Where your gameset stands

High play · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value gameset and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 88th percentile of 8,510 Illinois locations this month
In Dolton — #2 of 15 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 85th percentile of 6,400
Your gameset — you among your Dolton peers14 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Dolton peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Dolton gameset 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 $80,584
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Dolton median ($40,150)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.65× · state median 2.83×
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 gameset health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $364 · Dolton median $216
your WPU (per machine, per day) Dolton median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.3% · state median 9.2%
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.

This year against last, by monthMarch 2025 down 0% on a year earlier
April 2024 – March 2025April 2023 – March 2024

A month that looks like a collapse is often just that month. Laid over the same months a year earlier, a seasonal dip and a real decline stop looking alike.

Seasonality check: February → March moved +39% this year vs +7% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Dolton's total gaming income is +0% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −0% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your gameset.

A deeper operator read

The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your gameset.

Win per unit (WPU)
$364/day
per machine · per day · Dolton median $216/day · +69%
WPU momentum
+18%
last 3 months $300/day vs prior 3 $256/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($71,019 avg) · softest January ($38,159 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±14% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is −2% down year over year.

Your Location
−2%
$638,215 vs $654,566 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $11,284 in March 2025 — the 88th percentile of 8,510 Illinois locations that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a gameset by, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Dolton, that's #2 of 15 locations 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 gameset keeps — was 9.3% — above the 9.2% state median. Hold is driven mostly by the games in the gameset, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.65× 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 gameset health for both sides.
•High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $23,697 in gaming tax, March 2025's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $22,005 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +10% against your trailing average.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full March 2025 report detail
Amount played
$729,422
Amount won
$661,716
Net wager
$67,707
Funds in
$275,174
Funds out
$207,467
Net terminal income
$67,707
NTI tax
$23,697
State share
$20,213
Municipality share
$3,485

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