[vendtalk] New to list and possibly to the vending program

[cheryl echevarria]

thank you Charlie.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Richardson" <charlieofalbany at hotmail.com>
To: "Vendor Talk Mailing List" <vendtalk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [vendtalk] New to list and possibly to the vending program


> Hi Cheryl,
>
> Just so everyone knows, I'm the chairman of our committee of blind vendors
> in New York and I have talked to you briefly about BEP.
>
> Being a past foodservice manager I can tell you my description wouldn't be
> that it is very hard, but a different animal.  You should love foodservice
> if you're going to be in it otherwise you'll hate it.  Also in running
> newsstands there is a wide variety of types and difficulties.  Some of our
> newsstands are simple.  A manager just retired from a facility that sold 
> no
> beverages and collects $1000 per month from the vending machine 
> contractor,
> lottery tickets from a vending machine only and the over the counter sales
> were about 60000 per year.  All total his net profit which is like gross
> pay, was around 40000 per year.  The new person going in could easily make
> more with minimal effort.
>
> I run the store in the Capitol Building with storage rooms in the
> legislative Office Building which is easily a quarter mile trip, but when 
> I
> get there I probably have more storage space than store space.  I have 8
> vending machines that we service near the storage area and 11 other 
> machines
> in 6 locations around the Capitol Building.  I sell beverages in the store
> and just put away a 75 case order of Pepsi products today, which is the
> beverage company I do the most business with.
>
> We sell between 400,000 and 450,000 dollars worth of lottery tickets per
> year and keep about 40 different instant tickets for sale in the store. 
> But
> the most difficult thing about my store is servicing over 100 newspaper
> accounts.  I just took on 28 new accounts so I don't know exact numbers, 
> but
> about 700 newspapers go out on account per day, which I am paying for 
> every
> week and billing them later.  I charge fees for the service according to 
> how
> many papers they get, but it's a cash hog over time and lots of weight
> lifting every morning with putting them on a cart, bring them in the
> building and off the cart to be X-rayed through security, then off the 
> X-ray
> machine and back on the cart and then off the cart and in the store to be
> opened and separated for delivery to the offices.  Overall this service 
> nets
> me about $30,000 per year, so I see it having value.
>
> Anyway, there's a lot of types between the two descriptions.  We have also
> introduced legislation to expand our priority, so with the help of the New
> York Affiliate of the NFB we see new opportunities coming over the 
> horizon.
> But with the changes in the state legislature we'll be taking at least a
> different approach with a senate sponsor.
>
> Enough rambling from me, hopefully others will give their opinions on
> foodservice and other types of facilities.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
> To: <vendtalk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:09 PM
> Subject: [vendtalk] New to list and possibly to the vending program
>
>
> > good morning all:
> >
> > I am from NY, and I have a few questions, especially to the ones in the
> > food services.  I have decided to look into the vending program here, 
> > out
> > by me in Suffolk County the person in charge told me that she only has a
> > couple of food service areas.  My question is and I have heard these
> > places are very hard to run.
> >
> > What is your thoughts on this, and do you like these sites.
> >
> > Cheryl Echevarria
> > Treasurer
> > National Federation of the Blind
> > Greater Long Island Chapter
> >
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