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Thinking of opening a pinball arcade

By FXR

8 years ago


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    #19 8 years ago

    Learn all you can, so you have the best chance at success.

    Quoted from FXR:

    Yes, we would have food and a beer/wine license for sure.

    If you can get it. Cities don't just hand them out, and check out requirements and costs. No guarantee of success either, bars go broke too. You are talking a lot of space too. Two handicap approved rest rooms, and the bar itself. Lots of rent sucked up right there.

    Quoted from FXR:

    Is it possible to make a profit with say 15 new pinballs and 5 older classics?

    Depends on the place and people. 20 games may take in twenty games worth of money, or twenty games may take in five games worth of money. Until you do it, no way of telling how much money is in there.

    Check out what you'll all need for licenses, insurance, zoning ordinances, etc.

    If you go forward with it, best wishes for success.

    LTG : )™

    #37 8 years ago
    Quoted from FXR:

    The secret I hear is to buy an establishment that already has one,

    You'd still have to meet all the requirements involved or the license won't transfer. If it's transferable.

    All kinds of things. You might have to be a registered voter X number of years. Lived in the same city as the license X number of years. Clean records. Etc. Etc.

    LTG : )™

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