How to kill your pool room's business.

[johnqbs]

You are just a few miles from my house stop by and say hello.

And what is so bad is there are so many of those rooms out there. I can't understand why people don't take some pride in there business. one word
can fit all those rooms. LAZZZZY. Owner and employees are lazy to the core. a little PM each day will go a long way. I know what you are talking about I have two of them just a few miles from my house.

 

[onepocketron]

Sounds like Slick Willies on Nasa Rd 1 in Houston. Oh yea, they just closed down...

I'm surprised they stayed in business as long as they did. The place was the pits. Went there one time when the hall I frequent down the road was recovering the tables and never ever went back.

2-3 hours of play and couple of cokes was a tab around 40 bucks.:frown:

 

[onepocketron]

Have the day bartender/waitress (but don't you dare call her a waitress as she is a "bar tender") that is almost worthless, train her replacement to do and act just like she does. Seen this way more than once.

 

[chefjeff]

Something I did that worked well, and that IMO more weekly tournaments would benefit by doing, is to raise the entry fee after post time. So for a $10 tournament, I would charge late players $12 if they called ahead and $14 otherwise, assuming there was still an open bye to fill. That fairly small incentive did a pretty good job of getting people there on time.

I'd still not come.

Your incentive to arrive on time is fine, but TIME is more important to me than how much money is put into the tourney.

Maybe time isn't too important to most players?

Jeff Livingston