Bowling Center

Bowling Centers

Bowling centers are a fun place to play and practice, as well as be social through joining bowling leagues. Bowling centers provide family with family time, as well as bring friends together. Bowling centers provide people with many things, as well as a community with jobs and a greater range of recreational activities. Bowling is very popular today for all the above-mentioned reasons, and the push toward more traditional family values has made bowling even more fashionable. In fact, the industry makes approximately $4 billion a year.

Operating Cost Of Bowling Centers

The cost of operating a bowling center doesn’t come cheap. At first, $3,000 to $5,000 per lane is required. An eight to ten lane bowling center can be built on one acre of land, but the more lanes a center adds, the more acreage it would need. An acre of land itself can range from $6,000 to $20,000 per lane depending on the area.

Bowling equipment ranges from $25,000 to $55,000 for each lane, and when furniture and other fixtures are added to the mix, an additional $3,000 to $10,000 for each lane can be expected.

Overall, each lane in the operating cost of a bowling center would cost anywhere from as low as $90,000 to as high as $169,500 per lane.

Bowling Center For Sale

Purchasing already existing bowling centers are much cheaper than building new ones. Sandy Hansell’s website, http://www.sandyhansell.com/current_listings.htm has multiple listings for various sized bowling center businesses.

Bowling Center Jobs

If one is not interested in buying a bowling center, but would like to work at one, AMF is the key. The widest range of bowling center jobs available for lookup on the Internet are on the AMF Bowling Centers website. AMF is the world’s largest bowling center owner and operator. Their website includes jobs from all over at any of their 360 available locations. Their site is: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=company%3A%22AMF+Bowling%22&l=.

Worldwide Bowling Centers

AMF Bowling is the only well-known worldwide bowling center. It offers more than jobs, it also offers patrons a good time. Besides the United States, it also owns bowling centers in four other countries. AMF is a ten-pin bowling center that serves food and beverages, and oftentimes offers other forms of entertainment at their centers. Xtreme Bowling, which is their equivalent of midnight bowling, is a popular draw. AMF also offers late-night specials including several games with a food and drink combo deal.