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RePlay Magazine Podcast - Jim Stansfield
Episode 5 of the RePlay Podcast features Jim Stansfield Jr. of Stansfield Vending of LaCrosse, Wisc., the man who host Randy Chilton calls “the consummate amusement operator.” Jim began working for...
Highlights
- Jim Stansfield Jr. has been in the amusement business for 50-60 years, starting at age 14 with his father's bingo machines
- Stansfield Vending moved to a 71,000-square-foot facility in 2001 from their previous Muddy Flats location
- The AMOA was on the verge of bankruptcy in the late 1990s with high overhead costs including a 20th-floor Michigan Avenue office and expensive warehouse
- Don Hesch took out a personal bank loan to pay AMOA bills when the organization couldn't make payroll
- Janet and Julie Stansfield purchased the family business on a land contract and paid their father for 16 years before assuming full ownership
- Julie Stansfield left the business to become a stay-at-home mom after adopting two Korean boys, selling her interest to Janet
- Stansfield Vending is now employee-owned through Janet's restructuring, which Jim had no role in planning
- Jim Stansfield served as AMOA president in 1999; Randy Shilton was president in 1996
Notable quotes
“Show up every day, work your ass off and you'll be just fine.”
“Don Hesch took a loan from his bank to pay bills because we didn't have any money. When we sat down and figured out what we owed everybody and what was coming in, we couldn't make it. And he stepped up.”
“I expected that. I anticipated it. Either they'll do real well and I'll get to ride along with them, or they won't do well and you'll need me more than ever.”
“Tell it like it is. If you've got a problem, speak up. If you don't talk, you don't bring it up, we all assume on the team that everything is working and we're happy.”
“AMOA is going broke.”
Entities
- Canteen· company
- Kittleton Genda· company
- National Entertainment Network· company
- Stansfield Vending· company
- AMOA (American Amusement Machine Operators Association)· organization
- Don Hesch· person
- Frank Sinensky· person
- Gary Stern Nelson· person
- Jack Kelleher· person
- Janet Stansfield· person
- Jerry Derrick· person
- Jim Stansfield Jr.· person
- Jim Stansfield Sr.· person
- Julie Stansfield· person
- Lori· person
- Randy Shilton· person
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