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Re: Busy with Business/Pump Up the Jump
By: Jack Date: September 26, 2019, 9:13 am
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Zyngaru had asked about this, so I thought I'd post a full
update here.
Things are going pretty well. We did quite a lot of advertising
when we opened, but people still seem to be learning about us.
We're not quite breaking even yet, but that's mostly because of
our schedule. We're at the point where we could probably break
even by turning away some business on weekday evenings, when
things are slow. We're trying to avoid that, because we're
hoping to get more people coming in at those times. Huck and I
have talked it over, and we're going to hold on through the end
of the year, then re-evaluate.
I did sell the House of Bounce... to myself. It's really just a
paperwork issue. If you remember, I have one store that was a
Target, which they closed after building a Super Target a mile
or so away. The House of Bounce used to be a Toys R Us before
they went bankrupt. In both of those cases, I had huge parking
lots, and I wasn't able to use all of them most of the time if
ever (except allowing an occasional carnival or event of some
type). Well, I had an offer and I sold part of the parking lot
for fast food locations. The way it worked out, it was easier
to fold the House over into my Magicat's businesses and close
their debts that way, then make the sales.
I guess that doesn't really matter much, except it simplifies
things for me and Huck, since he and his dad are still striking
sparks as often as not over his choice not to get a degree right
now.
We're doing good during the day, because I have groups of home
school kids coming in for 'PE classes'. We're also doing really
good on the weekends, both with walk-ins and with parties. It's
actually not even too bad after school, because a number of
parents seem to bring school kids around for an hour or so to
burn off energy.
And, as long as we have people coming in on a regular basis, the
food areas stay busy as well.
Besides closing earlier on weekday evenings, we're also looking
at alternate uses for some area. I don't think installing any
type of arcade would bring in more people, and it probably
wouldn't get those who were already there to spend much more, so
we're considering some type of souvenirs or something; we just
haven't had a good idea of what might be unique enough to make a
difference.
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