Pod Plug is an American specialty vending machine company operating across two verticals: nightlife vending and Pokemon vending. We place 160+ smart touchscreen vending machines across 31+ states in bars, nightclubs, casinos, college bars, malls, grocery stores, arcades, and other high foot traffic retail locations. Founded in 2019, bootstrapped to over $6.5M in lifetime sales.
Snack and soda vending machines sell low cost items at low margins. Pod Plug machines sell high demand specialty products people can't easily get on the spot, with average transactions of $5 to $40. Each placement is curated for the venue.
Nightlife Vending: Bars, nightclubs, casinos, strip clubs, college bars, and live music venues. Personal care, novelties, phone chargers, and nightlife essentials.
Pokemon Vending: Malls, grocery stores, movie theaters, arcades, and family entertainment centers. Pokemon booster packs, mystery slabs, and trading card accessories.
The City Launcher program is how Pod Plug expands into new cities. Local operators use their connections in nightlife or retail to secure machine placements. Pod Plug provides 100% of the machines, inventory, software, branding, permits, and ongoing support.
City Launchers earn a 25% revenue share on every machine they help place and service. Nightlife machines in college towns average roughly $1,800 per month in revenue. The more machines you place, the more you earn.
Bar owners, managers, promoters, college students, frat members, campus ambassadors, bartenders, mall managers, grocery store owners, arcade operators, casino directors. If you can walk into a venue or retail location and talk to a decision maker, you fit.
Pod Plug nightlife vending machines are placed in bars, nightclubs, casinos, strip clubs, college bars, and live music venues across the United States. They sell nicotine pouches, disposables, phone chargers, mystery bags, and other nightlife essentials with average transactions of $5 to $40.
Venues pay zero cost. Pod Plug covers the machine, inventory, install, and licensing. Partners earn a 9% revenue share on every sale.
Pod Plug Pokemon vending machines are placed in malls, grocery stores, arcades, casinos, family entertainment centers, bowling alleys, and movie theaters. They stock Pokemon booster packs, mystery slabs, and collectible card accessories.
Retail partners pay nothing. Pod Plug provides the machine, inventory, and ongoing service, and pays a 9% revenue share on every sale.
Get a Pod Plug specialty vending machine in your bar, club, casino, mall, grocery store, or arcade at zero upfront cost. Pod Plug covers the machine, inventory, install, and ongoing service. You earn a 9% revenue share on every sale, paid monthly with full sales transparency.
Pod Plug offers full machine wraps, digital screen advertising, in-machine product placement, and event activations across 160+ machines in 31+ states. Reach adults 21 to 40 in nightlife environments and collector and family audiences in retail.
Find Pod Plug specialty vending machines near you. We operate 160+ machines across 31+ states in bars, clubs, malls, grocery stores, arcades, and casinos. Use the interactive map to filter by city, state, or vertical.
Pod Plug was founded in 2019 to reinvent the vending industry. Started with one machine and $20K in debt, bootstrapped to over $6.5M in lifetime sales and 160+ machines across 31+ states. We operate two verticals: nightlife vending and Pokemon vending.
Get in touch about machine placements, City Launcher partnerships, advertising opportunities, or wholesale machine orders. Pod Plug operates across the United States with 160+ machines in 31+ states.
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