Our Bowling League Received a Warning from the Lanes Manager

[Greenday]

Prices are pretty good at all the lanes I bowl at. Food prices are decent. Drink prices are always cheap.

I can see why they don't want people bringing in outside alcohol. Someone overdoes it, gets hurt or in legal trouble, the bowling alley is going to be blamed and could lose their liquor license.

[scottymoney]

In the end it is the alley policy, unless you ask them he has every right to be mad.

[MisterSinister]

We did not bring in food for our league Christmas party. the bowling center provided a nice spread, on the house! They told us it was thier way of saying thatnk you for choosing to bowl there. This league (before I was in it) was in a different center. they moved the entire league last year. Around here, there are so many centers, you have a choice of where u want to bowl. This is the first time I have seen any center provide food as a thank you.

[striker12]

thats messed every bowling cloverleaf here in Kingston and Quinte bowling center in belleville when we do a party for bowling they let us do it in all leagues mainly because it brings everyone back and then the bowling Allie in Belleville a lot of people on Saturdays bring in timmies in they don't fully like it in the summer but in the winter they let you depends on how far you have to travel.

[ArtVandelay]

Every bowling alley i've bowled in has let leagues bring their own food in for parties. It's good buisness sence! After all,league members pay on average $26-$32 or more a week and without us,bowling alley's would go out of buisness. Also bowling alleys make more money off the bar,then in house cafe's or resturants.

Zothen

Ditto. Our lanes have a strict food and drink policy as well, but they've never had a problem with pot luck parties for Christmas, or other occasions. They even set up tables behind our lanes so we can put the food on something.

Just ask him, "Why do you have to play Pontius Pilate and try to crucify Jesus before he is even born????"

[billf]

I think the point is; the league didn't get permission to bring in food for the party. Giving the manage the simple courtesy of asking would have probably prevented the whole situation. The league officers are to blame here. I bowl three leagues regularly. Every league at our center had a party and the alley handed out free drink coupons to EVERY bowler each league.

[Hammer]

The alley we have our league at, AMF in Bolingbrook, they let us bring our own food for Halloween and Christmas and set up tables for us behind our alleys. Water and ice in a plastic glass is free. Soda and alcoholic beverages are paid for out of our own pockets. Don't expect those to be free. We have done this for years here with no problems.

[SSG]

We have this no outside food policy at our house but it is never been enforced. People always bring in there Tim Hortons Coffee, and when i coach saturday mornings then stay to bowl in a tournament in the afternoon i will usualy go out for lunch and bring it back into the ally to eat. I think the manager of your house has gone way over board with his procedure, and needs to realise that without customers like yourselves he wont be making any money at all.

[billf]

I eat my lunch after youth leagues in the car if I don't purchase it there. They probably wouldn't care or say anything but for me it's a respect thing. The owner has been good to me and I try to be fair with him.

[Brother_jd]

I eat my lunch after youth leagues in the car if I don't purchase it there. They probably wouldn't care or say anything but for me it's a respect thing. The owner has been good to me and I try to be fair with him.

This right here. It is a 2 way street. You scratch his back and he will scratch yours.