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Buddy's Bites N Brews

Cook County · Cook County · IL · 5 terminals
IGB license 180702795 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of June 2026)
High play · high holdMomentum +2%YoY +50%3-month NTI decline

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$24,583
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$164
per machine · per day
Terminals
5
machines in service
Annual NTI
$269,647
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$4,917
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
57th pct of 8,597 IL floors
#36 of 46 in Cook County
Hold
10.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
67th pct of 8,597 IL floors
65th pct of 46 in Cook County
Cycle rate
3.18×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
93rd pct of 8,597 IL floors
97th pct of 46 in Cook County
Play / machine
$48.0K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
52nd pct of 8,597 IL floors
28th pct of 46 in Cook County

Against floors your size (4–5 terminals, 1,591 of them), your NTI/machine is +$2,761/mo vs the $2,155 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (June 2026)

NTI this month
$24,583
Gaming tax
−$8,604
After tax
$15,979
Your take-home
$7,990
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,990 to you and $7,990 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 · high hold

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

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

NTI/machine — 57th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Cook County — #36 of 46 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (4–5 terminals) — 83rd percentile of 1,591
The Floor — you among your Cook County peers45 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Cook County 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 Cook County 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 $52,853
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cook County median ($52,853)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.18× · state median 2.61×
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 $164 · Cook County median $309
your WPU (per machine, per day) Cook County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.2% · 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.

Seasonality check: May → June moved −3% this year vs +158% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Cook County's total gaming income is +11% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is +50% 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 floor.

Win per unit (WPU)
$164/day
per machine · per day · Cook County median $309/day · −47%
At the Cook County median this floor would add roughly $260,738 a year.
WPU momentum
−11%
last 3 months $167/day vs prior 3 $187/day
Seasonality
October peak
strongest October ($24,887 avg) · softest July ($18,793 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±28% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.

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

Locations
726
Avg NTI / Location
$36,022
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,274
Total NTI
$26,151,749

Year over year

Your NTI is +1% up year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+4%).

Your Location
+1%
$269,647 vs $265,959 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+4%
typical Location: $42,080 vs $40,475

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $4,917 in June 2026 — the 57th percentile of 8,597 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 Cook County, that's #36 of 46 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 10.2% — above the 9.4% state median. 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 3.18× 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 · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $8,604 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,990 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
•Heads-up: NTI has slipped three months running. Worth a look — it can be seasonal (check the year-ago comparison), or a sign the floor is due for fresher titles or better service.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 726 Locations in our data.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$239,917
Amount won
$215,334
Net wager
$24,583
Funds in
$75,546
Funds out
$50,963
Net terminal income
$24,583
NTI tax
$8,604
State share
$7,374
Municipality share
$1,230

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

Buddy's Bites N Brews — gaming performance, Cook County, Cook County, IL — The Gameset