Anyone Charge For Table Time On League Night

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Bigdaddi44

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I run a total of 3 leagues. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday my normal slow nights. Problem I'm having is that those nights are not making enough through food and beverage sales. I'm thinking about adding a greens fee to the league. I have 8 tables that are used on those nights out of my 13 availible and all of the leagues take 4 hours or more to complete. Last night I had to turn away paying customers because we had a 2 deep waiting list. I'm thinking about charging each team a $10 flat rate to make up some of the loss of them taking up almost all of my tables. Or limit the teams that play on those nights to leave room for paying customers. Any thoughts? Anyone else charge for league play.
 
APA league??? run a lot slower than BCA or VNEA in my experience. our leagues started at 8 and were done by 10, playing 8 ball with 5 players on 2 tables, one per team.

maybe we were better players???

nope, just a bunch of bangers.
 
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Every table in my area either has a coin mechanism or the ability to pay by the hour.

If your tables do not, the league players should at least be paying for the number of games being played for each match.
 
Bigdaddi44 said:
I run a total of 3 leagues. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday my normal slow nights. Problem I'm having is that those nights are not making enough through food and beverage sales. I'm thinking about adding a greens fee to the league. I have 8 tables that are used on those nights out of my 13 availible and all of the leagues take 4 hours or more to complete. Last night I had to turn away paying customers because we had a 2 deep waiting list. I'm thinking about charging each team a $10 flat rate to make up some of the loss of them taking up almost all of my tables. Or limit the teams that play on those nights to leave room for paying customers. Any thoughts? Anyone else charge for league play.
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Do a two beverage or one meal minimum per league player per night? That way you are only making an additional request for the league players that just drink water, or don't order anything at all, while the rest of the league players are supporting you as you expect?
 
They charge a $3 greens fee per player here. I don't charge my Teams anything, but visiting Teams pay. I pay the greens fees collected to our Team that finishes the highest in that session. Brian.
 
Was long ago, but we always had to feed quarters into the tables for league play, whether home or away.

Also remember when one bar owner decided to limit league play to one table for two teams. The whole league revolted and no one spent any other money while playing there. That bar only lasted one season. Having to pay for games wasn't nearly as offensive as forcing us to spend an extra 1-1/2 hours.
 
I'm in two leagues, both places have 8 Diamond 7 ft's. One league is 2 to three hrs depending on night and who you play, other league us 2 1/2-3 1/2 hrs and sometimes more if you play the girls team. I think they take out $3-$4 per person.
I played on a bar league 6 person team for a couple years where the home bar covered table time. It was a very heavy drinking league where everyone bought a round and the bar bought a round, then everyone stuck around for shots after.
They made quite a bit of money. Had to quit that league, too much drinking for me.
 
Our room charges a monthly green fees of $10 for a single league or $15 for two or more leagues.

In exchange you get free table time any time 7 days a week. The exception being if there's a wait list for tables Friday after 7pm, Sat or Sun. Then, only if there's a waitlist, you pay a flat $5/hour for the table, splittable between those playing.

Tough to beat that!
 
We currently pay $3 for open tables at one college bar in downtown Bellingham which is what the cost would be for the 3 games we play at a $1/game for every player at most other places in town.

Bars here don't generally open their tables for pool leagues here; they're currently charging a $1/game.

Our BCA league at the Elks lodge has open tables for $2 per player from about 6 pm to 11 pm which is a steal of a deal/bargain, IMO.

In my experience, 25 years running a bar/restaurant/league/tournaments, you can't afford to give up the coin-drop or fees -- pool players generally speaking are cheap 😉
 
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