Next time ask if you can substitute your car keys. You can not go home and forget them like you can a license. Our club asks because their Q balls are being stolen.
Best Pool Halls in U.S.
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Next time ask if you can substitute your car keys. You can not go home and forget them like you can a license. Our club asks because their Q balls are being stolen.
Anyone that hasn't spent a weekend at Fargo Billiards doesn't get to vote because the answer should be unanimous...
Nothing beats Fargo Billiards! Most beautiful pool room in the world.
Shooters Billiards in Burnsville, Minnesota!!!
Great beer selection.
I liked the local "Hop Knot" a little too much!:grin:
I had 4 or 5 of those myself! I love the ice house, it’s great. I just see it more as a bad ass hang out for young professionals than a “pool hall”. It’s doing good business, so they got the recipe right!
My CC is MY CC..no way it leaves my sight. I'd rather give you a C note, let you run a tab on that. Hell, the most I would lose is the C note. Giving someone I don't know my CC could be a life altering event..in a bad way.
Wow. My local room, I just go to the counter and get balls order a beer and sandwich and anything else I want till I’m done shooting. Then I square up. Btw I’m not what you’d call a regular.
You are a funny guy Walter, that really caught me by surprise One of the worst ... but one of the best ... of the worst
Only a select few would of had the experience
A good pool education lived there
At my cafe I ran the card and just maintained the number until the customer signed off
I don't like the idea of leaving my card with 'just anybody' either
As I've had two previous bad experiences myself, I understand your point. I agree.
By New York State law, East Ridge has two entrances and exits. Over the years, we found way too many players walked out the upper door without paying. By law, that door can not be locked during business hours. NYS is also non smoking inside a public building, our customers have to go outside to smoke. Can not track each one. Not an exclusive experience. Probably most pool rooms find it to be true. Now that we are serving chef prepared individually cooked meals and hard liqueur, it becomes a major potential problem.
As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, we are working with our POS guy trying to make our system work with just one swipe of the card. Customer never has to leave it. Not as easy as some think. Concurrently, the suggestion of holding some major currency amount in lieu of a card is much, much easier to implement.
Perhaps in some areas of the country, walkouts are not a problem. Our fellow poster from Kentucky has a great experience without problems. Wish his experience was true everywhere!
Lyn
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Bayshore Billiards, for one. And while we are not in NY State, my local senior center has 2 of each.
Lyn....here’s what you’re dealing with for some of us....
...from jimmyg in NPR
I’ve even had a major hotel double bill me with an extra day, as well....
...they acknowledged the mistake immediately when I saw my CC bill...
...still took me six months for the refund.
That’s what can happen for even just letting them run your card.
I’d rather leave a cash deposit...with a receipt in case of shift change.
I was travelling on business and went to Hard Times Bellflower and gave my driver's license to them to hold... I forgot to get it.. They forgot to give it.. I had driven a long way to visit the place over the weekend, and had to work the entire week and then had a flight not too long after the last workday, so driving back to get it was not an option. I ended up contacting a family member who went and picked it up and mailed it to my hotel.
Never again.
Given that a lot of our aging population of players are fairly affluent in their advanced years, there has to be a better way to secure payment. Hell, I'd rather leave my car keys instead. Also, there's no reason that the person behind the counter needs to take physical possession of the DL when they can take a pic. It creates a hostile environment for those of us who are not thieves.
Short bus Russ
Buffalo's Billiards in New Orleans is the #1 action spot in the country open 24-7-365
The Cue Ball, (Salem, OR) my regular hall, has more than one exit...but they are alarmed. Prevents walkouts. But then, it's my favorite hall because it's like Ames...no bar, no restaurant, etc. Also (Oregon law) no smoking. Jim, the owner, has been there since 1964. He invests wisely, and rents the nearby building he owns to restaurants. Yeah..kind of a unique situation for the owner of the hall to also own the building it's in.
So, to try to get back to JAM's original topic. If you find yourself near Salem, Oregon, you might enjoy the cue ball. The tables are all 9' Brunswick..either Century or Anniversary. Snooker and 3 cushion tables as well. Music is usually a Hall stereo tuned to a classic rock oldies station at a volume just high enough to hear.
Now that I'm known there, of course no ID asked for to get a rack of balls.
Kind of funny. Cindy & I had been going there for a few weeks with none of the regulars saying boo to us. Then one afternoon, our "honorary nephew" Matt walked in. He spotted is, cried out; "Cindy", walked up & gave her a hug. We were in after that.
Some of the places around here take your c/c and leave it in plain sight along with everyone else's behind the bar.
Then they write down what you bought and then settle on it at the end of your night. I suppose the app to do that
all electronically is quite expensive.
I use cash because of that risk, but then the wait help has to make an extra trip to bring me my change every time
after I get my order, so the help seems to ignore me quite often even while taking orders from those I'm with,
so I lose that way. It surely couldn't be my sparkling personality. :wink:
Jeff Livingston
I remember being on the road with Geese in the '70s, and we stopped at a pool room you owned. It wasn't the ones in Richmond, I don't think. You were standing there with some guy named "Crab Apple." or something. Years later, I wondered who that was, and now I believe it was Cornbread Red. I can still see the two of you standing there behind the counter.
You had long hair, Billy. That's how long ago it was.
Oh, and, yes, count me in as part of the Westmont Champion crowd. Saw Weenie Beanie play Freddy Boggs there for a nickel a rattle. Weenie quit after one set because Freddy was taking too long to shoot between shots. Geese got into a gaff game with, I think, Bobby Hawk, getting spotted playing Bobby one-handed. I remember driving home at daylight about $2,000 richer. That was a happy Geese gambling memory. They were all happy as long as Geese was winning. :grin-square:
And I adored Seattle Sam who worked behind the counter. What a character! I've got a few pool tales about Sam which I'll save for another time.
Sam on the left, John Henry on the right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you. :grin-square:
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