You will need to load the machine with around 400 drinks, about $100.00-$125.00 in cost, and fill the change mechanism with about $25.00 in change. Your total costs for 1 location, set up and operating, is around $750.00-$800.00. If you sell 50 sodas each day from a machine at $0.50 you will take in 25.00 a day.