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SHANGHAI CAFE CORP.

Crestwood · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 210703342
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Room to growMomentum −52%

Your performance · August 2023

NTI
$329
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$2
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$183,569
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$55
monthly · per terminal
state median $3,831/mo
0th pct of 8,218 IL locations
#35 of 34 in Crestwood
Hold
1.1%
this month
state median 9.0% · below
0th pct of 8,218 IL locations
3rd pct of 34 in Crestwood
Cycle rate
2.10×
this month
state median 2.89× · engagement
1st pct of 8,218 IL locations
3rd pct of 34 in Crestwood
Play / machine
$4.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $43.6K/mo
2nd pct of 8,218 IL locations
0th pct of 34 in Crestwood

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 5,755 of them), your NTI/machine is −$4,784/mo vs the $4,839 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2023)

NTI this month
$329
Gaming tax
−$112
After tax
$217
Your take-home
$108
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$112 · 34%Operator's 50%$108 · 33%Yours, 50%$108 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $108 to you and $108 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

Room to grow

Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.

What an operator sees: An operator sees upside: a gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 0th percentile of 8,218 Illinois locations this month
In Crestwood — #35 of 34 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 0th percentile of 5,755
Your gameset — you among your Crestwood peers33 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Crestwood peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is 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 $29,713
2022
2023
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Crestwood median ($29,525) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.10× · state median 2.89×
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 $2 · Crestwood median $159
your WPU (per machine, per day) Crestwood median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 1.1% · state median 9.0%
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.

Your town's market

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

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)
$2/day
per machine · per day · Crestwood median $159/day · −99%
At the Crestwood median this gameset would add roughly $350,353 a year.
WPU momentum
−49%
last 3 months $56/day vs prior 3 $110/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($29,713 avg) · softest August ($47 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±44% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $55 in August 2023 — the 0th percentile of 8,218 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 #35 of 34 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 1.1% — below the 9.0% 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 2.10× 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.
•Room to grow — Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.
•After $112 in gaming tax, August 2023's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $108 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −52% against your trailing average.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2023 report detail
Amount played
$28,638
Amount won
$28,309
Net wager
$329
Funds in
$13,634
Funds out
$13,305
Net terminal income
$329
NTI tax
$112
State share
$95
Municipality share
$16

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