Would you buy a pool room right now?

[CocoboloCowboy]

My experience has been that it takes about six months of heavy promotion to build your clientele. After that, word of mouth takes over and you should be making money. If you aren't turning a profit after the first year then either you are doing something wrong or you're in the wrong place at the wrong time. :frown:

Sound like some good free advice.

 

[Dan_B]

To your last sentence, my answer in our case is not really. 90% of our customers either come in to eat or get take-out food and have most likely never played pool here nor interested in watching someone play pool. Our regular players consider us a pool room with good food, but the reality is, for our regular dining / take-out only customers we are restaurant/grill with a quality product that it doesn’t bother them that they are coming to a pool room to eat - even though many of them likely have gone their entire lives without ever entering a pool room. Without that, we have nothing

Sounds like you have a well noted menu for the area,
what's the house favorite?

 

[7stud]

I know of a recent brasnkrupsy of two business that use to be great to deal with, Performace Bicycle & Bike Nasbar.

Remember pricepoint.com? RIP.

IHollywood Park...The poolroom was humming and the card room downstairs was paying all my bills! :smile:

I've played poker at Hollywood Park. Do you mean to tell me, there was a poolroom with good equipment upstairs?!!

Are there any private pool rooms? Members only? Is that a feasible business model?

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Remember pricepoint.com? RIP.


I've played poker at Hollywood Park. Do you mean to tell me, there was a poolroom with good equipment upstairs?!!

Are there any private pool rooms? Members only? Is that a feasible business model?

Also remember Blue Apron, gone.