Quoted from jk2171:I do some marketing work for local Chicago area D&B locations, and have asked the main GM about this very issue. It's simple...corporate D&B in Texas thinks they take up too much floor space, require too much maintenance, and don't hit their target demographic. I've even offered to have them let us do a league in one of the rooms there, to see how many pin people would come regularly to D&B with games on location. No dice. Don't think it will ever happen.
Pinball does not meet DB's demographic is the bottom line. The ops question is then how does pinball meet DB's demographic? I think part of this was answered by Post 63 and 72. You can't have pinball fill all demographics at once. If you made pinball to fit the DB's demo then it would not fit the Pinside demo. It would be 2 totally different machines.