BRUNSWICK BOWLINGBrunswick’s Sync Service Kiosk alleviates labor concerns while improving the guest experience. This fully integrated technology reduces wait times, streamlines ordering, improves accuracy and upsells on every transaction. It features two new convenience-oriented additions: a game card dispensing system and league payment options. Guests can build and purchase personalized experiences —  including bowling, food, beverages, game cards and other attractions — through captivating digital displays. The kiosk’s consistent sales presentation and upselling increase spend per vis ..read more

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The New Mexico Open will offer record prize money of more than $76,000 when its 20th edition hits the lanes at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho, Aug. 16-18. According to proprietor Steve Mackie, first prize will be a record $13,500, based on 192 entries — a number that’s certainly attainable considering last year’s field size at the 24-lane center was 211. Former PBA national tour champion Mike Miller is once again preparing a challenging lane pattern. Hope for a New Mexico victory received a boost after DeeRonn Booker, the pro shop operator at Starlight Bowling, Bar & Grill, won the ..read more

Strike and Spare Family Entertainment has identified a new location to replace the venerable Executive Strike and Spare Family Fun Center adjacent to the Kentucky Exposition Center. The company’s new Louisville venue will take over a shuttered Dick’s Sporting Goods store near Jeffersontown. It will include 34 lanes, an eight-lane VIP suite, a full bar and restaurant, party areas and an arcade with more than 60 games. According to a document filed with Louisville Metro Planning and Design, the project will cost $4.5 million to build out ..read more

Little more than a year after the passing of proprietor Tom Stobl at the age of 81, one of America’s legendary bowling venues — Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Michigan — is being sold to multi-unit operator Bowlero Corp. The acquisition brings the company’s center count in Michigan to six. Thunderbowl opened in 1962 and was purchased by Strobl and his brother Jim in 1997. In 1999, the center hosted the PBA’s first World Series of Bowling, a budget-stretching venture that enabled the PBA to tape multiple telecasts without the costs involved in moving from city to city. The center is the large ..read more

A 1972 advertisement for Holiday Lanes in Lansing, Michigan, proclaimed, “The Automatic Scorers Are Here!” The ad also listed the center’s amenities, which included a cocktail lounge, billiards, snack bar and — extremely important in south-central Michigan in the summertime — air conditioning. Holiday Lanes opened 10 years before that ad appeared, and during bowling’s boom years the 40-lane center was packed with leagues. Fifty years after it opened, the center was sold and rechristened Spare Time Entertainment — no relation to the chain of the same name operated by Bowl New England, but with ..read more

The St. Louis USBC Association has been honored with the 2023 Striking Contribution Award for making an extraordinary donation to the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame. The award was introduced in 2022, with retired Northern California proprietor John Tierney as the recipient. The St. Louis association’s donation process was led by Susan Bonner, who helped bring more than 130 items to the museum. The items belonged to USBC Hall of Famers Myrtle Shulte and Berdie Speck and included tournament medals and convention delegate badges. Shulte was inducted into the WIBC (now USBC) Hall of ..read more

Bowlero Corp. announced a 7% increase in revenues for the third quarter of its 2024 financial year when compared to last year. Revenue amounted to $337.7 million for the quarter that ended on March 31. Same store revenue declined by 2.1%, while adjusted EBITDA was $122.8 million, compared to $127.6 million last year. The quarter began slowly due to inclement weather in some areas in January, but also saw the addition of two venues, including the opening of Lucky Strike Miami at the downtown Miami World Center on March 25. That brought the company’s total to 352 centers. Not long after Lucky St ..read more

The city of Hurricane, Utah, is known for its historic peach and pecan orchards, as well as its proximity to Zion National Park. Soon, is also will be known for another “P”: the private VIP lanes at a new FEC being developed by Coral Cliffs Entertainment. Plans call for the 40,000-square-foot space to include a total of 18 lanes, along with a large redemption arcade, axe throwing, VR and both indoor and outdoor mini-golf. The venue will be “connected” to an adjacent movie complex by a food-and-beverage space with a fire pit. While the complex will welcome walk-in business, it’s being designed ..read more

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