Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona in the US state of New York has upgraded its entire slot floor of 2,100 games with CPI’s combination of MEI SC Advance note acceptors and EASITRAX Soft Count.

Turning Stone Casino

The installation was completed as part of a $15m investment by the Oneida Indian Nation to upgrade the casino’s entire operating system and provide new cash-play slot machines.

“Our goal is to provide a world-class leisure experience for our visitors,” said Guy Renzi, vice president of gaming at Turning Stone. “When our guests requested the convenience to play with cash, we turned to the CPI portfolio for a reliable and secure cash handling solution.”

Turning Stone first opened its slot floor in 1995 with an account-based system that required guests to load money onto cards prior to game play.  “Sometimes they had to wait in line or get up from the machine to reload,” Renzi continued. “It was disruptive, whereas now they can just walk in our doors and go straight to the game – and with SC Advance, there really are no more interruptions.”

SC Advance is part of the SC family of note acceptors that has achieved an installed field base of nearly one million units across the worldwide gaming industry. Equally impressive, more than 110,000 of those units are coupled with the EASITRAX Soft Count in the US alone. EASITRAX is an integrated hardware/software cash management system that drives operational efficiencies from the slot floor to the back room.  It works by gathering data from multiple SC Advance note acceptors and funnelling that information into a secure remote database that can be accessed to track revenues and analyse slot performance.

“We’re proud to have helped Turning Stone achieve their goal for a Vegas-style cash-based operation,” said Eric Fisher, CPI’s president of gaming.  “Their experience reflects CPI’s focused approach to providing meaningful solutions that enhance the player experience, drive cash management efficiencies and, ultimately, increase operator profitability.”