You seem to fail to understand the commercial coin operated pool table industry. To most bar owners that own their own coin op pool tables, they are an unreceipted source of income, as in no one really knows how much the bring in except the owner. The last thing any owner wants is a way of calculating how much their pool tables have earned as in MOST cases its NOT going to match up with what the write down in their books. Coin operated pool tables for the most part, produce a lower cash income, but higher alchohol sales if compared to pool rooms that rely on renting their pool tables by the hour. Hourly rental pool tables for the most part average 3 players to a table, which is the limit of alcohol sales per table as well, if the pool room even sells alcohol. When you rent a pool table in a pool room for let's say $5-$8 per hour, or even higher, that means it's your table, if someone wants to play you, then you need to bring up the conversation about splitting the hourly, and howong have you already been on the clock. But maybe you just want to practice, and don't drink alcohol,.....wonder why pool halls are closing their doors?
In a bar, I can go in and if no ones on a table, I can put my money in the coin chute, drop the balls and start racking...and almost right away someone asks me if I want someone to play....and guess what, I win, he pays and racks. I can't count the times I've played all night long, until closing time, and never paid for another game, and never ran out of someone racking...no matter how bad I beat all the challengers, they just keep challenging. And guess what, they're all drinking and having a great time.
Pay by credit card, debt card...Samsung phone....not a chance. Pay for 5 games in advance, or push the button and rent the table for an hour....not a chance in hell. You can save all that bullshit for yuppyville USA, but it's not a good formula for success in the bar table industry. That is a vending company thing, just like walking into a bar and seeing the coin chute is set for $2.50 a game, no one who enjoys playing pool is going to pay that high of a price to play a single game, and no challengers are going to keep paying it for 5 min or less, or 1 shot or less for that price. Those prices are for pool tables that DON'T get played.
So there's no evolution for bar tables to go through, they're the same tables for the most part, in the sa.e bars for the .ost part, that they've been in for the last 36+ years that I've been working on them. The only change in the coin op industry worth noting took place 19 years ago when I helped Diamond design their coin operated pool tables based on my own coin operated pool table design that I turned over to them to produce for todays businesses, and I have to add, Diamond did a lot of that design work as well, but between them and my design, we came together to produce the Diamond Smart Tables.
You'll never see pool tables that keep track of which balls go in which pockets, or tables that only release enough balls to play 9B and hold back the rest. You're never going to see pool tables racking their own balls as to give each breaker a fair rack! The only way anyone is going to even get close to seeming something like that is if you're smoking crack with coating of shit, because that's the only way this industry will give into those kind of BS changes.
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