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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.

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Kieran Kheller Editor, The Sweet Spot
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How the Venue Desk reports

The Venue Desk reports on the places cotton candy machines go: bowling alleys, indoor playgrounds, family entertainment centers, malls, grocery stores, zoos and aquariums, ballparks, movie theaters, hotels and water parks. Each Venue Guide covers who visits, how long they stay, who signs the deal, what share the venue expects and where in the building the machine belongs. Sources: public venue and industry data, regulations, and venue listing data, each labeled where it is used.

Every article the desk publishes follows our editorial standards: every figure sourced, every data set labeled with where it comes from and when, a review date at the end and a public corrections process.

From the Venue Desk

  41. States

    Best cotton candy vending locator in Alabama

    Alabama’s health permit follows temperature control. Spun sugar needs none, which may put a cotton candy machine outside the permit entirely — ask the county rather than assume.

    6 min read

  47. States

    Cotton candy machine placement by state

    Twenty-nine states have a signed cotton candy placement. Twenty-one have none at all, and two are outside the specialty locator’s coverage entirely.

    8 min read

  48. States

    Cotton candy vending machine placement in Alaska

    Alaska is outside the specialty locator’s stated coverage, so placing a cotton candy machine here means doing it yourself. The dry interior air is the one thing working in your favour.

    6 min read