I closed my location today. Stay safe folks.

Be sure to check with your insurance provider if you want to do this. Make sure you are covered in case of theft, damage, and to ensure you have liability protection.

Thanks for the offer and support! We are good for now. I'm staying positive, and enjoying the time with family and my dogs. Keeping a routine and getting plenty of exercise helps.

I've been officially closed for 2 weeks. Sold a few t shirts, and a couple of gift certificates. I've made great progress on the TZ I am restoring!

We are still hoping for May 1st re-open. Stay safe everyone!

That's too bad.

I finally got access to a .gov line of credit that was offered for small businesses (40K). 0% interest for 2 years, and 10 K forgiven if paid back in full by Dec 31 2022. Also waiting on a grant from the province (about 3K) for operating costs while closed due to public health order. Commercial landlords appear to be getting a break, which will spill down to the renters (part of the agreement they sign), so that will help with my lease as well. Federal .gov will be paying 75% labour costs when I reopen.

We won't be part of the first wave of re-opening. When we do re-open, it will be at half capacity for sure. We will be reducing the amount of pins in the cafe to provide more space, then slowly reintroduce pins as time goes on. Also building a deck out behind the business for more social distancing space.

Anxious times!

That stinks!

The grant from the provincial .gov came through, which provides some relief for sure. Though the province released their re-open stages yesterday, and there was some not great news:

"Restaurants, bars, lounges, food courts, cafeterias, cafes, bistros, and similar facilities are allowed up
to 50 percent capacity of their regular capacity to respect limitations on the size of gatherings and
physical distancing. Buffet service is not permitted."

Ok, not terrible, we can work with this. Followed by:

"Recreation areas within restaurants and licensed establishments are not allowed. This includes dance
floors, VLTs, pool tables and other areas where it is not possible to practice physical distancing."

Bummer So, 6 feet between pins. Reduces my pin amount substantially.

It's still a TBD by the province. We are phase 3. Phase 2 is May 19th (if everything is going well). My guess is early June?

Any chance we could keep this thread to info about routes and location pinball before it gets locked? I'm finding a lot of the ideas in this thread useful.

Yes.

https://pokeyspinballcafe.ca/

This is the way.