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Your 1st and 3rd idea, maybe, but they'd be moving into a territory filled with competitors. It's hard to imagine my local tabletop tavern crowd migrating to a
by musingsole 6y ago
Your 1st and 3rd idea, maybe, but they'd be moving into a territory filled with competitors. It's hard to imagine my local tabletop tavern crowd migrating to a corporate equivalent.
Gamestop pivoting to a gamer bar seems incredibly unlikely. Retail is not restaurants -- the business logic is all sorts of different -- and likely zoning issues would prevent many locations from suddenly becoming restaurants.
- llarsson 6y agoE-sport enthusiast are, as a group, sadly not very good patrons. They stay very long per visit and order very little food and drinks (relative to the extent of their stay). This is because many, if not most, if them will be teenagers or in their early twenties, and unruly enough to drive the more financially stable 30+ crowd away. So you will have all-night events showing StarCraft 2 or whatever, and only refill a bunch of drinks every once in a while. Very difficult to get a good business that way. Price sensitivity also plays a big part here. I've talked to several owners of failed e-sport restaurants. They all say the same thing. It's sad, but also the reason you don't see tons of them around, even if gaming as an industry makes billions of dollars.
- Corrado 6y agoMaybe this idea needs to mature a bit. I think eSports is going to be the future of sports in general. Normal "sports" bars do quite well (well, maybe not right now) and I expect eSports bars to follow suit. But who knows, maybe now is not the right time. Besides, most GameStop locations are pretty small and not really zoned for a bar. It was an interesting thought though.