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MKR CAFES LLC

South Elgin · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 160703651
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High play · lower holdMomentum −31%YoY −62%

Your performance · February 2025

NTI
$20,444
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$122
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$418,050
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,407
monthly · per terminal
state median $3,772/mo
46th pct of 8,420 IL locations
#24 of 25 in South Elgin
Hold
6.3%
this month
state median 9.2% · below
11th pct of 8,420 IL locations
4th pct of 25 in South Elgin
Cycle rate
3.27×
this month
state median 2.85× · engagement
88th pct of 8,420 IL locations
94th pct of 25 in South Elgin
Play / machine
$54.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $42.0K/mo
62nd pct of 8,420 IL locations
28th pct of 25 in South Elgin

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,355 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,193/mo vs the $4,600 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (February 2025)

NTI this month
$20,444
Gaming tax
−$7,155
After tax
$13,288
Your take-home
$6,644
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$7,155 · 35%Operator's 50%$6,644 · 33%Yours, 50%$6,644 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,644 to you and $6,644 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 · 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 gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 46th percentile of 8,420 Illinois locations this month
In South Elgin — #24 of 25 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 37th percentile of 6,355
Your gameset — you among your South Elgin peers24 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a South Elgin 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 South Elgin 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 $68,524
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
latest month up vs prior down vs prior South Elgin median ($39,127)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.27× · 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 gameset health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $122 · South Elgin median $236
your WPU (per machine, per day) South Elgin median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 6.3% · 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 monthFebruary 2025 down 62% on a year earlier
March 2024 – February 2025March 2023 – February 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: January → February moved +22% this year vs −14% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

South Elgin's total gaming income is +5% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −62% 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)
$122/day
per machine · per day · South Elgin median $236/day · −48%
At the South Elgin median this gameset would add roughly $230,533 a year.
WPU momentum
−21%
last 3 months $130/day vs prior 3 $164/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($47,426 avg) · softest September ($33,793 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±33% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is −33% down year over year.

Your Location
−33%
$418,050 vs $619,783 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,407 in February 2025 — the 46th percentile of 8,420 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 South Elgin, that's #24 of 25 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 6.3% — below the 9.2% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. 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 3.27× 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 · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $7,155 in gaming tax, February 2025's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,644 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −31% against your trailing average.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full February 2025 report detail
Amount played
$325,246
Amount won
$304,803
Net wager
$20,444
Funds in
$99,542
Funds out
$79,098
Net terminal income
$20,444
NTI tax
$7,155
State share
$6,103
Municipality share
$1,052

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