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SARNO'S RESTAURANT

Cicero · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 180700988 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of February 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +14%YoY +33%

Your performance · February 2026

NTI
$34,054
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$203
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$352,933
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,676
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,122/mo
64th pct of 8,493 IL locations
#44 of 73 in Cicero
Hold
11.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
83rd pct of 8,493 IL locations
90th pct of 73 in Cicero
Cycle rate
2.11×
this month
state median 2.67× · engagement
3rd pct of 8,493 IL locations
4th pct of 73 in Cicero
Play / machine
$49.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.1K/mo
54th pct of 8,493 IL locations
33rd pct of 73 in Cicero

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,636 of them), your NTI/machine is +$715/mo vs the $4,961 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (February 2026)

NTI this month
$34,054
Gaming tax
−$11,919
After tax
$22,135
Your take-home
$11,067
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,919 · 35%Operator's 50%$11,067 · 32%Yours, 50%$11,067 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,067 to you and $11,067 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 — 64th percentile of 8,493 Illinois locations this month
In Cicero — #44 of 73 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 57th percentile of 6,636
Your gameset — you among your Cicero peers72 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Cicero peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Cicero 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 $80,160
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cicero median ($36,427)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.11× · state median 2.67×
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 $203 · Cicero median $217
your WPU (per machine, per day) Cicero median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 11.4% · state median 9.4%
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 2026 up 33% on a year earlier
March 2025 – February 2026March 2024 – February 2025

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 +11% this year vs +10% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Cicero's total gaming income is +4% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +33% over the same-month-last-year comparison — holding up as well as or better than the town around you.

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)
$203/day
per machine · per day · Cicero median $217/day · −7%
At the Cicero median this gameset would add roughly $28,482 a year.
WPU momentum
+39%
last 3 months $167/day vs prior 3 $120/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($51,734 avg) · softest January ($34,394 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±26% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.

Linked to your Location as of February 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
721
Avg NTI / Location
$34,921
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,087
Total NTI
$25,177,803

Year over year

Your NTI is −14% down year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+3%).

Your Location
−14%
$352,933 vs $412,737 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+3%
typical Location: $41,358 vs $40,115

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,676 in February 2026 — the 64th percentile of 8,493 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 Cicero, that's #44 of 73 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 11.4% — above the 9.4% 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 2.11× 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 $11,919 in gaming tax, February 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,067 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +14% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 721 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full February 2026 report detail
Amount played
$297,437
Amount won
$263,383
Net wager
$34,054
Funds in
$141,162
Funds out
$107,109
Net terminal income
$34,054
NTI tax
$11,919
State share
$10,214
Municipality share
$1,704

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