Vending machine locations in New York, by the numbers

What is on the record for New York

Six venues, no two of a kind, signed across ten weeks.

All six took the standard tier, so none reported the 100,000 annual visitors premium requires. Two of the venue types — the haunted attraction and the kids centre — appear exactly once in the whole record, which means each is its own category of one.

The machine mix is New York’s distinctive feature

Across all 87 placements the machine field records cotton candy 80 times, flexible six times and drink and snack once. New York holds four of the cotton candy, the single drink and snack placement, and one of the six flexible ones — the only state where all three appear.

The flexible pattern is the cleanest in the dataset: six placements, six pass-through venues — two malls, two electronics stores, a retail site and a filling station — and six agreements at 50% of net. New York’s Jackson Heights listing is one of them.

The single drink and snack placement is the opposite of informative. Farmingdale reports no visitor count and no share, so the one listing in the record that would say what a conventional snack machine agrees to says nothing at all.

Why only one New York listing can be ranked

Because the conversion needs two inputs and New York is short of both. Turning footfall into hours of exposure requires a reported visitor count and a published average visit length for the venue type — the method behind our ranking of vending locations — and only five of the 26 types in this record have the second.

One of six, and it is the smallest venue of the three that report traffic. At about 149 visitor-hours a day Marcellus sits in the bottom third of the 44 convertible listings nationally.

So New York has six placements and effectively no measurable presence — a different failure from Missouri, where a single listing reports no traffic, and from New Jersey, where all three report traffic and none of their categories has a visit length.

The share pattern, and the one real outlier

New York’s five stated shares average 38% of net, the lowest figure for any state with four or more. Across the full record, 55 of 87 agreed 40%, twelve agreed 50%, eleven 30%, two 35% and one 45%.

Two of New York’s are at 30%, and only one of those is surprising.

Bowling alleys come out low everywhere in this dataset, which makes Marcellus a category effect rather than a New York one. Blasdell is the genuine anomaly: twelve of the thirteen indoor playgrounds that state a share took 40%, and nothing in the Blasdell listing — which reports no visitor count — distinguishes it. What the revenue-share data shows across all 87 placements works through what the shares do and do not track.

What is missing from New York’s record?

Trampoline parks and family entertainment centres, and most of the state. New York shows nothing from either category, and those two plus bowling alleys and indoor playgrounds supply 44 of the 87 national placements.

Geographically the six split into three clusters with large gaps between them: two in New York City, two on Long Island, and two upstate about 150 miles apart near Syracuse and Buffalo. Rochester, Albany, Yonkers and the Westchester suburbs appear nowhere. Vending machine locations by state shows where every state stands.