How ATM Route Businesses Make Money

**Bill D'Alessandro** (0:00)
Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Acquisitions Anonymous. This is the Internet's number one podcast on buying, selling and operating small businesses. I am one of your hosts, Bill D'Alessandro, and this week, I am with Heather Endresen and Mills Snell, and we have a very interesting, unique deal. It is an ATM network with 642 ATMs, some of which they own, some of which they manage for other people, million bucks of EBITDA, apparently a very passive business, but there is a twist.
All 642 ATMs are in gentlemen's clubs nationwide, so there are definitely some unique wrinkles that come with that end market. We talk about those. Mills actually has some very relevant experience looking at ATM network deals, so he gives us a little bit of inside baseball on that. This was a really fun episode to record. I hope you enjoyed this episode of Acquisitions Anonymous.

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**Bill D'Alessandro** (1:53)
All right. This is going to be a great episode of Acquisitions Anonymous. Just the pre-show banter alone, I can already tell.
We just have to get right into the deal. I totally agree. There is no lead in that I can do justice to this deal.

**Mills Snell** (2:06)
You could say it's going to be a banger.

**Bill D'Alessandro** (2:08)
It is going to be a banger, certified banger even before recording. Shout out to Michael's OpenClaw, even though Michael is not here in this episode, which is finding us deals. I don't know if I found this one. I think this might have been from a friend, but we are now crawling the Internet with OpenClaw for deals. But our favorite deal was sent to us by our listeners, which I think is this one. This is, let me put it on the screen. Hold your breaths. This is a $1 million EBITDA ATM route, but there's a wrinkle. They're all at Gentleman's Clubs.
So this is a 642 ATM business.
Five, it says they're asking $5 million. It has $6.6 million of gross revenue and almost exactly a million bucks of EBITDA. It has been around since 2001 Who wants to learn more about how this business works?

**Mills Snell** (3:06)
I love that it says transform your investment portfolio because nothing in your current investment portfolio is quite like this.

**Bill D'Alessandro** (3:13)
That is true. You will be diversifying your portfolio.

**Mills Snell** (3:16)
All right.

**Bill D'Alessandro** (3:17)
Let me tell you more. Transform your investment portfolio with a premium ATM route delivering over a million bucks of annual EBITDA. Step into ownership of a turnkey cash generation machine that has dominated the Gentleman's Club ATM market for over 25 years. This exceptional opportunity delivers immediate cash flow through 642 strategically positioned ATMs across prime locations nationwide, generating 6.6 million bucks of annual revenue and proven EBITDA exceeding a million dollars. Your investment will deliver immediate high yield returns, generate substantial monthly cash flow from 103 owned terminals, which average 191 transactions each, plus processing income from 539 managed locations. So Mills, I'm going to ask you to break that down for me once I get to the bottom of this. A recession resistant revenue stream at the Gentleman's Clubs, cash-based entertainment venues create consistent demand regardless of economic conditions. Man, that is one of the most euphemistic sentences I've ever read.
Cash-based entertainment venues. Hands-off operations, which as you may know is a rule. Third-party contractors hire all vault cash, loading, maintenance, allowing you to collect profits day-to-day or without day-to-day operational burdens.
Inherit the premier reputation as the go-to ATM operator in this specialized niche, with 99% contract renewal rates demonstrating unmatched loyalty. Leverage established relationships and proven systems expand your ATM network and multiply your returns. Minimal management requirements streamline operations, means you can maintain current income levels while pursuing other ventures or ensuring your lifestyle freedom. Gentleman's clubs represent the holy grail of ATM placement. Notoriously difficult to penetrate, but incredibly lucrative once established. You can't use the word penetrate. Yeah. In a gentleman's-