His Vending Business Started in the Garage...Makes $480K/Year!

A vending machine business wasn’t part of Kyle Davey’s original plan. After a corporate buyout made it clear his physical therapy job wasn’t secure, he knew a layoff was coming.

Like a lot of people under pressure, he tried to juggle everything. He kept his training clients, bought a carpet cleaning franchise, and, after learning how to start a vending machine business, decided to test it on the side.

Nineteen months later, that vending machine business is generating about $40,000 per month with 25 machines (from old-school cash units to newer AI models) run by a team of three.

But it wasn’t always easy. In one two-week stretch, he lost every employee across his businesses. Machines sat unstocked. Carpet jobs were booked. That pressure forced him to simplify and build real systems.

In this episode, Kyle breaks down how he financed his first vending machine with just a few hundred dollars in inventory and grew it into a vending machine business built on simple, repeatable actions — no website, no social media, no paid ads. Just flyers, door-knocking, and consistency.