re: Best business ideas that require little day-to-day management or supervision.

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I highly recommend the video poker business.

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Could be.

I believe you need to be licensed as an operator/distributor to buy the machines and place them in locations in Parishes that allow video poker.

Think bars or restaurants with separate bars that three machines can be installed but screened off from public (read children in the restaurant) view.

Or, you could build an addition to a gas station that sells a minimum volume of gasoline per month (or year?) and install 50 machines in what is loosely called a “truck stop”.

Most locations are usually already under contract with local “operators”, usually gaming or amusement companies that also install cigarette vending machines, pool tables, jukeboxes, pinball machines, and video poker machines.

If you can get licensed and pass LSP scrutiny, buy some machines, scrounge up a location or two, you’ll also have to contract with a company who can run some fiber optic cable to link the machines, 3 or 50, to a Louisiana State Police mandated cluster controller, at each location, that allows the LSP to poll the machines daily to measure monetary intake and payouts and if and when the machines have been serviced, opened, or tampered with. You’ll also have to pay a monthly charge for a one way telephone circuit to allow the LSP to monitor each cluster controller.

With all that, if you can get a good location or two to put your machines, it’s good passive income.