Build a vending machine route

  1. List every candidate location in your city
    2 hours

    This step produces the scored list of 20–40 candidate sites in your city that everything else in the plan is tested against. The trap: turnkey sellers hand you their own “vetted locations” as part of the package — this list is built by you, from your own city, so the demand test measures your sites, not their pitch.

    A plausible site passes all three tests: a captive daily audience — people who wait: offices with 50+ staff, gyms, laundromats, auto shops, salons, clinics, warehouses; no existing vending machine; and someone on site with the authority to say yes.

    Build the list:

    1. Mark the zones you already know — business parks, industrial strips, the gym and laundromat clusters — on a map of your city.
    2. For each site record: business name and address, the owner or manager's name, opening hours, and one line on why the traffic could feed a machine.
    3. Score each site 1–5 on the three tests and keep the 20–40 with a plausible story.
    4. Sort by score — the top ten are the call list for the next step.

    The step costs nothing beyond your own driving or walking time.