Working in a bowling center?

[v33dubfox]

Are we a lot to work in a bowling center?

What is your work? What is the center's name? Web site?

I am at the control center at Salon 600 (http://www.quilles600.com) in Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec. It is a 18 alley bowling center. I began to work part time since a month. It's kind of a hobby for me.

I have to absolutely love bowling to work until 3 am (cosmic bowling) and to go play a regional league for 8 am this morning ahah :)

[billf]

I coach at Bel-Mar Lanes in Sidney, Ohio. I'm not an employee of the center though. It's a small 12 wood lane alley. As the only volunteer coach of the Youth League the owner gave me free practice time and doesn't charge me lineage when I coach the kids outside of league so I don't charge the kids for their lessons.
I bowl 3 leagues there and sub in as many others as possible. It's also where the county's City Tournament is held as it's the only center in the county. Also, being so small we don't even have an on-site pro shop.

[75lockwood]

I Bowl at Markham Bowl in Markham Ontario, i'm in 3 leagues one of which i run. while i don't work there i'm in 3 league one of which i run and i'm in for practice whenever i can. I would love to work there :D

[backlasher]

I'm retired. I Pastored Baptist churches for 30 years and now I bowl. Our local lane has free bowling for seniors on Monday 1-3 P.M., Wednesday is no taps 1-3 P.M. and Friday is Senior league. I usually practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I bowl all week. Being retired is nice! I don't work there but I think sometimes I live there.

[billf]

I'm retired. I Pastored Baptist churches for 30 years and now I bowl.
That's great! Guess it also explains why you didn't list any Sunday bowling.

I was invited to the alley's company Christmas party today by the owner. I thought that was a very nice gesture so I will go out of respect if nothing else.

[SSG]

Cant say i would ever want to work at a bowling ally . I spend enough time there without working lol.

[noeymc]

i would like a part time thing and they can pay me in games =D

[H3RBSKI]

I work in an ally. Part of a uk branch called Bowlplex. I'm a lane technician so get to fix and test the lanes. I get bowling for free so go a few times a week and have recently started bowling in one if our leagues. I'm a mechanic by trade and I love bowling so fixing the machines and getting free bowling is great lol

[ArtVandelay]

Naaaah... I don't want to associate my fun with work. I wouldn't want to mess around with machines that break, and people doing dumb things that I'd need to fix. It just seems like something I wouldn't want any part of. I'll stick to my day job and keep my bowling hobby.

[Brother_jd]

I wouldnt mind working at a bowling alley.

[RoccoRock]

My wife keeps telling me to get a part time job at the bowling alley. I would get free games, and it would help pay for new balls, and bags and whatever I need. I think I would like it. Back when my main hobby was RC cars, I always wanted to work at the hobby shops and tracks. I finally got that chance when I lived in North Carolina, and I loved it. I think it may be the same if I worked at a bowling center.

[AZBowla]

I don't think I could do it. It'd be the whole upsell thing that would kill it for me. I'm fine with helping run the counter or whatever to earn a few bucks plus free bowling but being told I have to sell so many pizzas or sign so many people up for leagues or their e-club or whatever would really get irritating fast. People know where the snack bar is, they can order a pizza if they really want one.

[billf]

Bowling alley's upsell????? It's one thing to make sure when people come in that don't appear to be regulars, to ask if they know where the snack bar, restrooms and stuff are but to try and push anything there seems silly.

[Hampe]

If I could work at a bowling alley for the same salary I have working in IT, I'd do it in a heartbeat :D

[edpup316]

I worked in a pro shop for about three years. Learned so much about ball physics while i was their it was rediculious. The pro shop was called Bowlers Connection. It was owned and operated by Teresa and Rod Ross (ring a bell for anyone?). I learned so much from these two as a jr. And working a pro shop was probably the best experience i had in my bowling career. learned how to drill balls and everything it was awesome.

Every once in a while some punk kid would call and ask "Do you have 16 lb. balls" I would say "Yes." and they would say "MUST BE HARD TO WALK WITH THOSE!!" Damn kids.

[AZBowla]

Bowling alley's upsell????? It's one thing to make sure when people come in that don't appear to be regulars, to ask if they know where the snack bar, restrooms and stuff are but to try and push anything there seems silly.

Yeah our local AMF does this every time we walk in the door. "Would you like a pizza or some drinks? Are you a member of our e-club? Are you in one of our leagues?" All while I'm trying to just get a lane. Then once I'm there, someone walks by at least once every two hours and asks me the same 3 questions. I took the customer survey to get $5 off my next visit and the computer even asked me if I was offered food and drinks and told about the e-club and their leagues. So they get rated on if they ask this stuff or not and if they don't I'm guessing some suit from Corporate shows up and gives them a hard time about it.

I get it - I know that they want to make money and that selling me a crappy pizza for $15 bucks and a cup of soda for $4 is where they make the most profit but honestly not even the local movie theater is this pushy about it, and that's where ALL their revenue comes from. I'd be fine with it if I got the lane time for free, then it would make sense but I'm already paying anywhere from $8 to $12 per person for two hours of lane time. When I take all my kids bowling that can sometimes cost more than $50 right there. I think they've made their money at that point.

[Greenday]

I've asked a couple local alleys if they were hiring. None of them were unfortunately. Just wanted some work in the mean time while I'm waiting for my new job to start.

As far as upselling goes, I've never had anyone try to do that to me at a bowling alley.

[Big Nick]

My wife and I wish we had the cash to open our own alley. We live in a college town, and we think there would be a good amount of business during the fall and spring semesters. I briefly looked into it, and without some big investors there's no way we would be able to even begin.

[scottymoney]

Never have had someone try to upsell me anything, but they do try to drum up business by normally putting me on a lane right next to the bar. It works sometimes.......

[serial bowl]

Yeah our local AMF does this every time we walk in the door. "Would you like a pizza or some drinks? Are you a member of our e-club? Are you in one of our leagues?" All while I'm trying to just get a lane. Then once I'm there, someone walks by at least once every two hours and asks me the same 3 questions. I took the customer survey to get $5 off my next visit and the computer even asked me if I was offered food and drinks and told about the e-club and their leagues. So they get rated on if they ask this stuff or not and if they don't I'm guessing some suit from Corporate shows up and gives them a hard time about it.

I get it - I know that they want to make money and that selling me a crappy pizza for $15 bucks and a cup of soda for $4 is where they make the most profit but honestly not even the local movie theater is this pushy about it, and that's where ALL their revenue comes from. I'd be fine with it if I got the lane time for free, then it would make sense but I'm already paying anywhere from $8 to $12 per person for two hours of lane time. When I take all my kids bowling that can sometimes cost more than $50 right there. I think they've made their money at that point.

My local AMF in SO-CAL does the same thing, and if I'm not bowling with an E-Club coupon, the rates are just out of control.
I prefer to go to my local Brunswick lanes.

[billf]

Yeah our local AMF does this every time we walk in the door. "Would you like a pizza or some drinks? Are you a member of our e-club? Are you in one of our leagues?" All while I'm trying to just get a lane. Then once I'm there, someone walks by at least once every two hours and asks me the same 3 questions. I took the customer survey to get $5 off my next visit and the computer even asked me if I was offered food and drinks and told about the e-club and their leagues. So they get rated on if they ask this stuff or not and if they don't I'm guessing some suit from Corporate shows up and gives them a hard time about it.

I get it - I know that they want to make money and that selling me a crappy pizza for $15 bucks and a cup of soda for $4 is where they make the most profit but honestly not even the local movie theater is this pushy about it, and that's where ALL their revenue comes from. I'd be fine with it if I got the lane time for free, then it would make sense but I'm already paying anywhere from $8 to $12 per person for two hours of lane time. When I take all my kids bowling that can sometimes cost more than $50 right there. I think they've made their money at that point.

McDonald's started it with, "would you like fries with that?"
My home center doesn't really try to upsell me but they do get my large Mountain Dew, light ice without me even having to order it. Of course on Saturdays it's free for me so I get my own then.