Vending machine locations in Louisiana, by the numbers

What is on the record for Louisiana?

One venue, fully reported, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

Premium tier requires a venue reporting 100,000 or more visitors a year, and Slidell reports exactly that — sitting on the threshold rather than comfortably above it. For the operator that means a higher enrolment and monthly fee than a standard placement carries.

How strong is Slidell, measured properly?

Strong. Converting Louisiana footfall into hours of exposure — visitors a day times a published visit length, the method behind our ranking of vending locations — puts it well clear of its category.

Family entertainment centres rank highest of any venue type in this dataset on captive time, so a family entertainment centre half again above its own median is near the top of everything measured here. Only a handful of individual venues — a Georgia trampoline park, an Illinois bowling alley, a Connecticut bowling alley — offer more.

And it changed nothing about the terms

Slidell agreed 40% of net: the median across all 81 placements that state a share, and the median for its own category.

That is the finding worth carrying away, and Louisiana states it more cleanly than any multi-venue state can. A single listing at the top of its category on exactly median terms removes the confounding variables a bigger sample introduces. Whatever sets the share in this market, it is not how much captive time a venue provides.

The pattern holds across the record: shares sort by venue category, not by venue size, as what the revenue-share data shows across all 87 placements tests in full. Kentucky demonstrates the same thing from the other direction — four venues well below their medians, all also at 40%.

Two states, opposite ends of the size distribution, identical outcome.

What does one listing not support?

Anything about Louisiana. There is no distribution, no range, and no second venue to compare against, so the state’s record describes a venue rather than a market.

It also cannot say whether the machine is still there. The record captures signatures in one season; a placement signed in July and removed in October would look identical.

What it does support is narrow and genuinely useful to an operator: a premium-tier Louisiana venue of known size agreed those terms on that date, which is a real local comparison that 21 states cannot offer at all. Vending machine locations by state shows where every state stands.

What is missing from Louisiana’s record?

Everything except family entertainment. The state shows one venue of one type, leaving bowling alleys, indoor playgrounds, trampoline parks and arcades — 44 of the 87 national placements between them — entirely unrepresented.

Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport and the New Orleans suburbs hold all four categories. Their absence describes where a sales route reached in one season rather than what Louisiana contains, which is the standard caution for every short state record here.