wgcp
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Does anyone out there have a buisness plan for opening a pool hall? I am retireing soon and have really thought about opening a place... simple, food, pool, bar...
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Vapros,
figured me and Doc need a quality place to play besides my house... Shannon is supposed to help me with this but was hoping for insight from what the players would want... besides the hustler special... hotdog and coke, and a tooth pick...
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Bille
pool rooms are closing all over the country
that should tell you somethng about investing in a pool room
your friends are those who will sometimes tell you what you dont want to hear
my 2 cents my friend
over "there "(azb) there is a forum
called "room owner discussion"
you may want to post there for some advice
http://forums.azbilliards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=51
ray thats great to hear....I know of many pool rooms that are doing well. Offer the right combination and you can win with a pool room.
Ray
Vapros,
figured me and Doc need a quality place to play besides my house... Shannon is supposed to help me with this but was hoping for insight from what the players would want... besides the hustler special... hotdog and coke, and a tooth pick...
A golf game on a big (12 foot) snooker tabole can go a long way toward paying your monthly nut. You need a "ringmaster" to organize the golf game. Also, close ball, pay ball, ring 9 ball and 10 ball are all games that can entertain up to six players at a time on one table all paying for time.
Many room owners do not realize the value of a daytime golf game in their pool room. Once they get going the regulars will be there from morning til dinner time.
In the 50's/60's/70's many of the rooms in CA had 5 x 10 or 6 x 12 snooker tables with daily golf games. They are few and far between now. I have to drive two hours from Sacramento to the South Bay to play on a 6 x 12. The room owners who took the tables out cite the amount of space they took up but did not try to promote the game and get it going when the tables were there.
California Billiard Club in Mountain View, CA has three 6 x 12 Riley's. Two are set up for snooker with the bi-directional snooker cloth and the other table has Simonis for the golf players. There is a huge Oriental and East Indian population in the area (Silicon Valley) that likes to play snooker.
The main push now is for league play and even adding more bar tables and taking regulation tables out. While that makes sense to increase the evening business, I wish there was a room with an active golf game a little closer to me. I would be there almost every day.
As an oldtimer, in my mind a pool room is not a pool room without a snooker and billiard table in it.
Heh, heh. Well, there is no finer equipment than what's at your house. I guess the room would have to be in Biloxi or Gulfport. But remember, R.D. is on the Gpt city council, so the permits there might be hard to come by... I could be wrong.
Doc
He's the man who owns the poolroom in Gulfport...who is RD??
Many room owners do not realize the value of a daytime golf game in their pool room. Once they get going the regulars will be there from morning til dinner time.