5 Ways a Free ATM Can Make Your Bar More Profitable
Every square foot in your bar should earn its keep. Tables generate sales. Pool tables, digital dart boards, jukeboxes, and amusement games keep customers engaged while generating additional revenue. A free ATM can do the same by creating passive income, helping offset card processing fees, and giving customers convenient access to cash − without creating more work for your staff.
While cards and mobile wallets dominate many everyday purchases, cash plays a distinct role in the bar experience. Customers use it for tips, cover charges, live entertainment, amusement games, and because many people simply prefer paying with cash. Federal Reserve research shows that four out of five Americans use cash, including many consumers who typically prefer other payment methods. That is one reason you'll continue to find ATMs in bars, taverns, breweries, sports bars, and nightclubs throughout the greater St. Louis region.
If you're looking for a simple way to generate additional revenue, improve customer convenience, and add value without increasing your workload, a free ATM may be the easiest business decision you'll make this year.
5 Ways a Free ATM Benefits Your Bar
Whether it's a neighborhood tavern in St. Louis, a sports bar in St. Charles, a brewery in Columbia, or a busy bar serving fans before a Cardinals or Blues game, you'll often find an ATM near the entrance or bar area. That's no accident.
While customers appreciate the convenience, business owners recognize that free ATM placement can improve the customer experience while creating an additional source of revenue. For bars throughout the greater St. Louis region, a well-placed ATM is more than a convenience − it's a business asset.
1. Generate Passive Monthly Revenue
Across eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, many bars generate reliable passive monthly income through ATM surcharge revenue − without selling another drink or hiring another employee. Every ATM transaction contributes to your bottom line, creating an additional revenue stream month after month.
2. Help Offset Credit Card Processing Fees
Cards are essential, but processing costs continue to rise. When customers withdraw cash from your on-site ATM and choose to pay with it, those purchases don't incur card processing fees, helping offset a portion of your monthly payment acceptance costs. That's especially valuable for independently owned bars, taverns, and breweries where every dollar counts.
3. Improve the Customer Experience
Customers don't have to leave your business to find cash for tips, cover charges, live entertainment, pool, darts, jukeboxes, or amusement games. Convenient access to cash keeps guests focused on enjoying their time − not searching for the nearest ATM. That's especially valuable during Cardinals and Blues home games, concerts, festivals, and busy weekends when bars throughout the St. Louis region experience their highest customer traffic.
4. Support More Than Food and Beverage Sales
Many bars generate revenue beyond food and drinks. Pool tables, dart leagues, amusement games, jukeboxes, tournaments, raffles, charity events, trivia nights, and live music often involve cash. A free ATM makes it easier for customers to participate while helping your business maximize these additional revenue opportunities.
5. Choose a Partner: Not Just an ATM Provider
An ATM is only as good as the company standing behind it. Reliable service, responsive support, and a provider who understands your business can make all the difference over the life of your ATM program. That's one reason bars, breweries, taverns, sports bars, and nightclubs throughout St. Louis, St. Charles, Columbia, Jefferson City, Springfield, Cape Girardeau, Belleville, Edwardsville, and surrounding communities choose BFC Enterprises.
Why Bars Throughout the Greater St. Louis Region Choose BFC Enterprises
Most ATM companies can provide an ATM. What sets BFC Enterprises apart is the company behind it.
For more than 75 years, BFC Enterprises has helped businesses throughout the greater St. Louis region improve customer convenience and generate additional revenue. Today, the company is led by third generation of family ownership, continuing a tradition of personalized service and long-term relationships.
Unlike national ATM providers, you won't be routed through a call center or transferred to someone who has never seen your account. When you call BFC Enterprises, you'll speak with someone who knows your business, your location, and your ATM. Whether you need service, have a question, or are opening another location, you'll work with people who understand your business − not strangers reading from a screen.
From neighborhood taverns in St. Louis to breweries in St. Charles, sports bars in Columbia, restaurants in Jefferson City, and bars and nightclubs throughout eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, BFC Enterprises has built lasting relationships with business owners who value responsive, local service.
Ready to Add a Free ATM to Your Bar?
If your bar, tavern, brewery, sports bar, or nightclub is located within two to three hours of St. Louis, contact BFC Enterprises today to learn how a free ATM can generate passive monthly revenue, improve customer convenience, and help offset card processing fees − all with no upfront investment.
