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SirPeale:


--- Quote from: RayB on July 25, 2007, 01:28:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: Peale on July 25, 2007, 10:06:01 am ---The biggest reason the 4 ways get replaced with 8 ways is because ops have them on hand.  Price is a factor too.  Six bucks for a 8 way vs $25 for a four way, price wins (in the ops mind, anyway).

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Yup. They are geniuses. Save $19 now, and then the earnings on the machine gets cut in half. It's no wonder arcade business are on their last thread.

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My former boss was at the same time very conscious - and at the same time, oblivious - of how money was being spent. 

One day we were discussing ordering items to replenish supply.  We'd run out of...something...and were being chided for none of us recognizing that we needed more and ordering.  He told us when we were out of something or running low to call and order more.

I made the suggestion of a once-a-week call for ordering stuff to save on shipping charges, unless we needed a part RIGHT THEN.  I wasn't even done suggesting this when he interrupted  me and said "No.  Just call and order the parts when you see we're getting low."

Flash forward about eight months later.  Boss is ranting about how we're placing all kinds of small orders, and to start consolidating orders.

I just stared at him for about fifteen seconds.  Cool Guy actually walked away, he knew what was coming.  "Uh, boss?  You told us months ago to just order stuff when we needed it.  What you're suggesting now was the suggestion I had months ago."

He just looked at me.  Told me that there are grey areas to what he told us, and we should know better.  Then he left.

NightGod:

I have a friend who owns a handful of very successful small businesses who calls that behavior "tripping over dollar bills to pick up pennies".

Seems apt.

vintagegamer:

That's why I was so surprised actually that Hersheypark had so many classic games, and not only that, they were all WORKING!  I just stood staring at all the nostalgia.  It was a rarity..

VG

AtomSmasher:


--- Quote from: ahofle on July 24, 2007, 07:01:00 pm ---Asteroids?  Pacman?  At Chuck E Cheese?  Can you please share the plans for your time machine?  All the Chuck E Cheeses I've seen in this decade only have a bunch of crap redemption games and a Star Wars Pod Racer.

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Thats what my local Chuck E Cheese it like as well.  Whenever I go to one for my neice or nephews birthday, I spend probably 99% of my game playing time on the skeeball machine.

ChadTower:


Last time I took my kids there we couldn't play skee ball because there were kids running across them.  Two kids had actually used a screwdriver to pry open the ticket dispenser door and were taking out the whole roll of tickets, and there was a kid inside the rotating hoop basketball game.  I'm totally serious.  There were like 150 kids in there and probably 20 adults (counting myself and my wife).  There's no way in hell most of those kids' parents were in the building and the employees were just standing around looking completely helpless.

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