How to kill your pool room's business.

[Secaucus Fats]

1.) Hire lazy, clueless people, who don't give a damn and have absolutely no personality or people skills.

2.) Make sure the flooring or carpeting is filthy and sticky.

3.) Make sure the rest rooms are filthy and don't have any soap or paper towels.

4.) Make sure the cloth on the tables is worn super thin and is full of nicks, tears, holes, and stains.

5.) Never clean the tables or the cloth.

6.) Never clean the balls, and make sure all the house cues are shot to hell.

7.) Charge outrageous prices for beer and booze.

OK, what else could a room owner do to drive customers away?

 

[iusedtoberich]

Not turn the air conditioning on high enough!!!!!!

Even after customers continuously complain and sweat like pigs.

 

[Secaucus Fats]

Not turn the air conditioning on high enough!!!!!!

Even after customers continuously complain and sweat like pigs.

Yep,that's a good business killer. I don't know how I let that one slip by me!

Thanks.

 

[The Renfro]

Promote a manager to GM who isn't fit to manage a Krystals...

 

[sk8ordie]

Karaoke/band/DJ :angry:

 

[SplicedPoints]

Make sure the tables are so close to each other and to the walls that you feel like you're in "the place to be"

 

[GoldCrown]

Blast some really obnoxious music
Let it become a hangout.

 

[Blue Hog ridr]

Have pole dance competitions.
For guys.

 

[Nostroke]

Install an Air Hockey game and the punching bag one too.

 

[irock]

Let want to be hustlers bother the real paying customers while they are trying to enjoy themselves.

 

[C.Milian]

I have crossed to the other side.

I hate idiots now...family or not.

 

[One Pocket John]

Install those new pig tail lights over the tables.

 

[Fenwick]

Let the bartender run the joint. He picks the music and the volume.

 

[C.Milian]

Make sure you hire idiots who don't know right from wrong and defend them to the death of your business.

Then when a loyal customer who seems to have a pretty solid head on his shoulder complains about his/her dumbness....... kick him out.

Raise the hourly rate.

Lets fall of the cliff together!!!YAY!

 

[JUSTABANGER 2]

Heres a few that bug me.

I go along with the loud music. Also bartenders who think their rock stars. Waitresses who ignore customers. Sucurity that thinks their there to start fights. And dim lights on the pool table to save money.

 

[jcs003]

rates too high.

not fixing damaged pockets...replacing cloth as the OP stated.

allowing people to openly gamble for high stakes. IMO it scares off some people.

 

[Mitchxout]

allowing people to openly gamble for high stakes. IMO it scares off some people.

Glad you don't run my place.

 

[Fenwick]

allowing people to openly gamble for high stakes. IMO it scares off some people.

Mitchxout
"Glad you don't run my place."
Ditto

 

[Non Smoker]

kill your pool room

Have a cover charge for anyone not playing pool, because they aren't spending any money in your place, just hanging out with friends.

 

[gunzby]

One I saw not too long ago amazed me. Hiring too many untrustworthy employees.

This place was nice. It had 18 Diamond Pro-Ams and 1 GC. It was spotless, the tables were cleaned after the table was empty and the food was really good. The problem was that the employees took part in running it into the ground. Watched as one waitress charged her bf for one Crown and Coke and proceeded to serve up the entire bottle over a few hours.

Of course the owner also started off on the wrong foot by charging $10 an hour in an area that charges $4 an hour. After he lowered the prices it was too late because the customers wouldn't come back.