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Sugar Grove Cafe Inc.

Sugar Grove · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 230702279
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Room to growMomentum +27%

Your performance · December 2025

NTI
$379
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$3
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$11,942
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$95
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,181/mo
0th pct of 8,506 IL locations
Hold
2.4%
this month
state median 9.3% · below
1st pct of 8,506 IL locations
Cycle rate
2.81×
this month
state median 2.70× · engagement
63rd pct of 8,506 IL locations
Play / machine
$3.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $46.0K/mo
1st pct of 8,506 IL locations

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,656 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,997/mo vs the $2,091 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (December 2025)

NTI this month
$379
Gaming tax
−$133
After tax
$246
Your take-home
$123
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$133 · 35%Operator's 50%$123 · 32%Yours, 50%$123 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $123 to you and $123 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 8,506 Illinois locations this month
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 1st percentile of 1,656

Trend

Net terminal income by monthpeak $4,593
2024
2025
latest month up vs prior down vs prior shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.81× · state median 2.70×
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 $3
your WPU (per machine, per day)
Hold % by monthlatest 2.4% · state median 9.3%
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 month
January 2025 – December 2025Jan 2024 – December 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.

Your town's market

Sugar Grove's total gaming income is +18% 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)
$3/day
per machine · per day · daily win rate per machine
WPU momentum
+191%
last 3 months $12/day vs prior 3 $4/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($3,171 avg) · softest December (-$1,485 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±168% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $95 in December 2025 — the 0th percentile of 8,506 Illinois locations that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a gameset by, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Hold — the share of money played that the gameset keeps — was 2.4% — below the 9.3% 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 2.81× 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 $133 in gaming tax, December 2025's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $123 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +27% against your trailing average.
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Full December 2025 report detail
Amount played
$15,730
Amount won
$15,351
Net wager
$379
Funds in
$5,605
Funds out
$5,226
Net terminal income
$379
NTI tax
$133
State share
$114
Municipality share
$19

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