And we do absolutely draw families and love having kids birthday parties and family business during the day. So where others will have a very large portion of their floor space dedicated to arcade and gaming, or family entertainment. But we are a bit different in terms of the demographics and what we focus on. Q: How would you describe how 810 Billiards & Bowling kind of differs from competitors, and how it can kind of make its own mark in a market like Phoenix?Ī: There are definitely some similarities between us and some other concepts. And now we feel pretty good about the solutions we have in place and have been able to support our franchisees. We took out 12 lanes, created a six-lane back alley for events and 14 lanes up front and that store and the concept was born.Īnd then we spent a couple of years fiddling with it, fixing it, figuring it out. We jumped in and closed on that place at the end of 2014 and started a wall-to-wall renovation. And she said that she changed her mind kind of three or four months later to sell to us. So I had been looking to get out of the city anyway, and was taking a job up in Rochester with doing portfolio management for an asset management firm if they're in, and then she called me back when we were on our way up to go house-shopping up in Rochester. And we kind of moved on with our life and time to start a family. Turns out it was available, and we actually had kind of a weird moment where I gave her an offer on that property, and the owner declined. So the proprietary trader for a small group called Group One Trading that had me in Chicago and New York. Q: Take me through how you're how 810 Billiards & Bowling got started in the first place, and kind of how do you guys got here?Ī: So I'm a New York guy went to school, originally for mechanical engineering, moved into finance, and got my CFA after school and got into equity options market making. So we're really excited to get the grand opening in the state and specifically in the Phoenix area where, I don't know how it compares to the rest of the country, but it sure seems like it's got to be one of the fastest growing areas in the country right now.
Main Event is kind of a scaled-up concept that's similar to us.īut overall, it's such a large market, there's just so many people that move in there every day. So there's certainly plenty of competition in the broad Phoenix market. And they've got lots of young and growing demographics to help support us. And they want new businesses coming there. The city's booming and it seems to be well-rounded and business-friendly, relatively speaking.
So that got us into the Chandler location, which we're building out as a franchise, our first franchise location, and then as a byproduct of that, we started talking to that same landlord, who was the landlord for the former Lucky Strike space, in downtown in CityScape, and ended up working out a deal with him to for us to take that one over as a corporate store.
And at the time they were in Chicago, but they knew that they were intending to move to Phoenix in the coming year.Īnd that's where they wanted to open the business. So we really were agnostic in terms of looking for our first franchisees.Īnd it just so happened that the first folks that came on board were the Maneks. It's universal.Įveryone in the country wants family entertainment and nighttime entertainment with quality food and beverage.
It's not based on specific regions, cuisines or anything else. A: It was pretty organic in the sense that, we started the business in South Carolina, opened our first three corporate stores here, and began the franchising process as we were kind of getting the third one online.Īnd then we've marketed nationally, because, I think one of the strongest points of our concept is that it's not regional.
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