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The River Cafe 1, LLC

Crestwood · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 180701651
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High play · lower holdMomentum −1%YoY −38%

Your performance · March 2022

NTI
$23,547
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$127
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$330,168
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,925
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,294/mo
46th pct of 7,757 IL locations
#25 of 37 in Crestwood
Hold
6.8%
this month
state median 8.5% · below
19th pct of 7,757 IL locations
22nd pct of 37 in Crestwood
Cycle rate
3.12×
this month
state median 3.01× · engagement
62nd pct of 7,757 IL locations
84th pct of 37 in Crestwood
Play / machine
$57.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $51.8K/mo
55th pct of 7,757 IL locations
39th pct of 37 in Crestwood

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 4,774 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,163/mo vs the $6,088 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (March 2022)

NTI this month
$23,547
Gaming tax
−$8,006
After tax
$15,541
Your take-home
$7,771
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$8,006 · 34%Operator's 50%$7,771 · 33%Yours, 50%$7,771 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,771 to you and $7,771 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 7,757 Illinois locations this month
In Crestwood — #25 of 37 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 29th percentile of 4,774
Your gameset — you among your Crestwood peers36 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Crestwood peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Crestwood 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 $45,625
2021
2022
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Crestwood median ($30,705) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.12× · state median 3.01×
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 $127 · Crestwood median $165
your WPU (per machine, per day) Crestwood median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 6.8% · state median 8.5%
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 2022 down 38% on a year earlier
April 2021 – March 2022Apr 2020 – March 2021

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 −22% this year vs +13% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Crestwood's total gaming income is +33% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −38% 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)
$127/day
per machine · per day · Crestwood median $165/day · −23%
At the Crestwood median this gameset would add roughly $85,891 a year.
WPU momentum
+23%
last 3 months $143/day vs prior 3 $116/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($45,625 avg) · softest January ($10,911 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±31% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is −38% down year over year.

Your Location
−38%
$23,547 vs $37,901 (vs a year ago)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,925 in March 2022 — the 46th percentile of 7,757 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 Crestwood, that's #25 of 37 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 6.8% — below the 8.5% 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 3.12× 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 $8,006 in gaming tax, March 2022's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,771 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full March 2022 report detail
Amount played
$346,564
Amount won
$323,017
Net wager
$23,547
Funds in
$111,076
Funds out
$87,529
Net terminal income
$23,547
NTI tax
$8,006
State share
$6,829
Municipality share
$1,177

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