smitty..there is bette ways to make a living…like being in the health industry as here the demand is greater then the fruit busines…its a matter of supply and demand..
the food industry is very fickle and unless you do all the work yourself you will be working for nothing..a thankless job

Owning a Fruit Machine is a gamble

You need a licence from the gaming authority in london-otherwise you will probably get in trouble-I think you can site video
and vending machines without a licence.look in the daily papers
for suitable companies who advertise there.

i tried it once

for a while i was a service engineer for a company, so know whats involved.

unless you are going to do it yourself you will need –

- collectors, lots of chance for people to rob you blind here
- service engineers
- security, to stop either of above robbing you blind
- sales, to sell to the pubs

and then they will expect you to also be able to do video games, SWPs and juke boxes.

then there is the legal aspects of contracts with pubs, of course most pubs belong to a group so you got to be able to supply all outlets within the group, and you got to change the stock every few months…..

need i go on. its not going to work unless you have got a few hundred fruit machines. and can afford to emply about 30 people with company cars for 6 months while it takes off.