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Pepe's Mexican Restaurant

Hickory Hills · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 240700398 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum −8%YoY +15%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$17,378
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$93
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$252,556
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,896
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
34th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#13 of 19 in Hickory Hills
Hold
6.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
10th pct of 8,611 IL locations
16th pct of 19 in Hickory Hills
Cycle rate
2.84×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
77th pct of 8,611 IL locations
68th pct of 19 in Hickory Hills
Play / machine
$45.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
49th pct of 8,611 IL locations
47th pct of 19 in Hickory Hills

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,213/mo vs the $5,109 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$17,378
Gaming tax
−$6,082
After tax
$11,296
Your take-home
$5,648
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$6,082 · 35%Operator's 50%$5,648 · 33%Yours, 50%$5,648 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $5,648 to you and $5,648 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 — 34th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Hickory Hills — #13 of 19 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 27th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Hickory Hills peers18 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills 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 $31,446
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Hickory Hills median ($24,627)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.84× · state median 2.60×
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 $93 · Hickory Hills median $132
your WPU (per machine, per day) Hickory Hills median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 6.3% · 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 monthAugust 2026 up 15% on a year earlier
September 2025 – August 2026September 2024 – August 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: July → August moved −31% this year vs −24% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Hickory Hills's total gaming income is +1% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +15% 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)
$93/day
per machine · per day · Hickory Hills median $132/day · −29%
At the Hickory Hills median this gameset would add roughly $86,984 a year.
WPU momentum
−19%
last 3 months $118/day vs prior 3 $145/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($26,710 avg) · softest December ($14,388 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±25% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC

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

Locations
2,551
Avg NTI / Location
$33,097
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,782
Total NTI
$84,429,268

Year over year

Your NTI is +7% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+7%
$252,556 vs $236,306 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $2,896 in August 2026 — the 34th percentile of 8,611 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 Hickory Hills, that's #13 of 19 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 6.3% — below the 9.4% 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 2.84× 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 $6,082 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $5,648 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −8% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2551 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$275,676
Amount won
$258,298
Net wager
$17,378
Funds in
$96,918
Funds out
$79,541
Net terminal income
$17,378
NTI tax
$6,082
State share
$5,212
Municipality share
$870

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