About The Sweet Spot

What we cover

The Sweet Spot covers the business of placing robotic cotton candy machines: which venues work, what they pay, which rules apply and how to keep a machine earning. Every story comes back to one question: where does a cotton candy machine earn, and what does it take to keep it earning there?

• Venues: Where cotton candy machines work and where they don’t, one venue type at a time.
• Money & Operations: What a machine earns, what the venue takes, and the upkeep that keeps it selling.
• States: Specialty placement, one state at a time: who places, what it costs, what the state requires.

We write for the operator with one to three machines, or one on order, who needs the next location, and for the venue manager weighing whether a machine belongs in the building. We don’t review machines beyond a fair comparison of machine types, and we don’t publish earnings promises: when we run the numbers, we show the assumptions.

Who writes The Sweet Spot

Articles carry desk bylines, the way trade journals use staff bylines. Each desk page lists its beat, how it reports and everything it has published. AI tools assist with research and drafting, and the editor reviews every article and checks its numbers against the cited sources before it is published; the details are in our editorial standards.

• The Sweet Spot Venue Desk: Where cotton candy machines work and where they don’t, one venue type at a time: traffic, who signs, revenue share, the right spot inside the building.
• The Sweet Spot Operations Desk: The money and the upkeep: earnings math, pricing, revenue share, permits, humidity, service schedules, the pitch.

Editor: Kieran Kheller, who edits every article.

Contact and corrections

To reach the editors, point out an error or send a tip, use the form on the contact page. How we handle an error is set out in our editorial standards. The privacy notice explains what the site and the form collect.