Anyone Charge For Table Time On League Night

[Bigdaddi44]

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.

 

[The Old Jaybird]

APL 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.

 

[Fore Rail]

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.

 

[sbrownn]

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.

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?