Robotic Kiosk Scalable Financial Model (Excel XLSX)

Having automated machines dispense products or services for customers is a nice business model that can be scalable with multiple deployments over time and fairly hands off as far as management difficulty goes. Sometimes the easy of management / barrier to entry are more important than potential total returns, as long as the returns still make sense in terms of a DCF Analysis.

One of the more common types of kiosks is one that automatically serves various types of frozen yogurt. This current model is setup to handle similar situations where there are a few different pricing options that involve various ingredients. Only creativity limits the options and types of products that can be dispenses to customers automatically. Do your market research and try to think of something that is in demand year round at various locations. Brand it, have a cohesive message, and away you go.

Recent Updates: Revamped entire revenue assumptions to work as a capacity ramping schedule, added 3-statement modeling integration (IS/BS/CF), added capitalization table, added dynamic capex with depreciation logic. Included visuals on the revenue assumptions page for easier sanity checking of the inputs.

This model is designed for the financial modeling of robotic kiosk deployment. Oftentimes you will be going through a franchisor to attain such machines and the operations of them are fairly standardized. This model does have a sensitivity input configuration that adjusts sales volumes from a defined base.

Output reports include a 3-year monthly and annual operating pro forma as well as an annual executive summary with visualizations.

There is also a DCF Analysis that includes terminal value per defined revenue or EBITDA multiple.

Configuration assumptions are available for startup costs, ongoing operating expenses, and revenue growth.

The main premise of the scaleup is an initial deployment and then future deployments over time. The kiosk count scales revenues. This was built for a froyo machine, but can be used for almost any robotic kiosk system.