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Description of Business
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Description of Business Description of Business
Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s (and together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”) wholly owned subsidiary, Accel Entertainment Gaming LLC, is a terminal operator licensed by the State of Illinois Gaming Board (“IGB”) since March 15, 2012. Its terminal operator license allows the Company to install and operate video gaming terminals (“VGTs”) in licensed video gaming locations throughout the State of Illinois as approved by individual municipalities. The Company also operates redemption terminals, which also function as automated teller machines (“ATMs”) at its licensed video gaming locations, and amusement equipment at certain locations. The Illinois terminal operator license, which is not transferable or assignable, requires compliance with applicable regulations and the license is renewable annually unless sooner cancelled or terminated. In July 2020, the Georgia Lottery Corporation approved one of the Company's consolidated subsidiaries as a licensed operator, or Master Licensee, which allows the Company to install and operate coin operated amusement machines for commercial use by the public for play throughout the State of Georgia. The Company also holds a license from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. The Company is subject to various federal, state and local laws and regulations in addition to gaming regulations.
The Company operates 13,177 and 11,108 video gaming terminals across 2,527 and 2,335 locations in the State of Illinois as of June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
The Company is an emerging growth company (“EGC”) under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”) following the consummation of a reverse recapitalization that occurred on November 20, 2019. The Company has elected to use this extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards pursuant to Section 107(b) of the JOBS Act and as a result of this election, its financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates. The Company expects to remain an EGC until December 31, 2022.
Impact of COVID-19 on the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the IGB made the decision to shut down all VGTs across the State of Illinois starting at 9:00 p.m. on March 16, 2020 and ultimately extended the shutdown through June 30, 2020. This temporary shutdown of Illinois video gaming impacted all of the gaming days during the three months ended June 30, 2020, and 106 of the 182 gaming days (or 58% of gaming days) during the six months ended June 30, 2020. As a resurgence of COVID-19 occurred in the fall of 2020, the virus spread exponentially in every geographical region (currently 11 regions) in the State of Illinois. In response, the IGB suspended all video gaming operations across the entire state of Illinois starting at 11:01 PM on Thursday November 19, 2020. Video gaming operations resumed in certain regions of the state beginning on January 16, 2021, and fully resumed in all regions on January 23, 2021. Even though video gaming operations resumed across all regions, certain regions still had government-imposed restrictions that, among other things, limited hours of operation and restricted the number of patrons allowed within the licensed establishments. Given the staggered reopening by region in January of 2021, the temporary shutdown impacted, on average, 18 of the 181 gaming days (or 10% of gaming days) during the six months ended June 30, 2021. In light of these events and their effect on the Company’s employees and licensed establishment partners, the Company took action to help mitigate the potential effects caused by the temporary cessation of operations. During the initial shutdown in 2020, the Company furloughed a significant portion of its employees and deferred certain payments to major vendors. Additionally, members of the Company's senior management decided to voluntarily forgo their base salaries until the resumption of video gaming operations. Beginning in early June 2020, the Company started reinstating employees from furlough in anticipation of resuming operations on July 1, 2020. During the second shutdown starting in November 2020, the Company furloughed idle staff as appropriate and deferred certain payments to major vendors.
As a result of these developments, the Company's revenues, results of operations and cash flows have been materially affected. The situation is changing and additional impacts from COVID-19 and its variant strains on the business and financial results may arise that the Company is not aware of currently and cannot reasonably anticipate.
While the IGB has announced the resumption of all video gaming activities in all regions effective January 23, 2021, it is possible that it or the State of Illinois may order a shutdown by region (currently 11 regions), or a complete suspension of video gaming in the state, or institute stay-at-home, closure or other similar orders or measures in the future in response to a resurgence of COVID-19, particularly in light of variant strains of the virus, or other events. If this were to occur, the Company could recognize impairment losses which could be material.