Table rent / ball set DEPOSITS?

The usual procedure around here seems to be holding a drivers license. I've never come up short on the balls so I can't really say what would take place.

The room I used to manage was a Mom and Pop place that just handed out balls. It's too easy to just say a drivers license was lost or stolen. Never had a ball lost or stolen and walk outs were maybe 2 in 11 years.

Not a room owner.... But out of the dozen's of room's I've been to, I think only 2 required a license. I hated it. One time I even forgot to get my license back and was driving around without it. Total pain in the ass from a customer's perspective. IMO.

i tell the owner how would he like it if he went in a restaurant and they asked to hold his id in case he decided to steal a fork or run out.

There's a room I used to frequent that changed its name & owner supposedly but never changed the sign with the old name & has a new policy that they wanted a credit card. I offered to pay up front & they still wanted a credit card. I found a new room.

I don't like to use a credit card for anything except plane tickets, rent a car or hotels & I don't like leaving my card and its info at a counter all day to have someone perhaps purloin the info to misuse, a ridiculous request IMO.

Hey

Over here on Long Island, we explain the table time and hand them the balls. Never any request for anything up front. We have had a few sneak out in the last two years, amounting to a few dollars.

We are trying extremely hard to lose the image of an old pool room....and change to a place that you can relax, bring kids or bring a date.
A good example is getting away from the dingy, cluttered and filthy bathroom scenario of the old poolrooms.

So far things are looking very well........good luck guys

Steve

There is a local bowling alley here that requires a license before they will give you balls or a table or any cues. plus they charge more per hour then the actual pool hall does. They have about a dozen GC2s with worn out cloth (actually holes) and large felt fuzz bumps. Personally I resented it to a point I don't go there anymore as my home table may be smaller but my personal equipment is much higher quality and better maintained as well. It saves me a lot of money that way. There is a local pool hall I go to occaisionally that simply hands me balls and tells me what table.