Count your blessings because I know they've done it elsewhere. It may just be a matter of time or you have one appreciative manager who respects league bowling obligations.
I doubt Bowlero allows managers to think for themselves, run a center as they deem best or step out of their cookie cutter style.
AMF District Managers were available to the Center Managers to discuss and possibly approve how they wanted to manage their center.
What was noticable to me meeting monthly with 16 area AMF managers is most did not come out of bowling and often were retail or grocery store managers and this lack of experience impacted their centers. I would listen to some managers whoms lack of experience was obvious why their centers were perfoming poorly and wishing had same center knowing lineage would increase and consider approval for 24 hours 7 days a week going forward. Then the seasoned managers just lazy and burned out, keeping poorly performing porters, desk and waitresses because its easier than hiring and retraining.
Bowlero may be coming around but they have so far been a scourge on this game as a sport and both AMF and Brunswick corp owned centers did focus on leagues and balanced Glow Bowling with it. It strikes me that food and beverage is strong revenue sources and they do not factor how may come in just to watch league bowlers and buying these things for the 2 plus hours (they fill the lobby) they are there. Also, your not going to sell a ball to a rec only player nor are you going to fill monday - thurs nights with them (hence the shorten hours and decline of sr day leagues).
Bowleros center staff on every level lacks industry experience and as far as I am concerned and all the way to the top. I see the difference how a AMF center I managed ran and now how it is ran by Bowlero. Its a shitz show on every level from lane maintenace to machine maintence and think the center employees fresh from jobs at Arby's not to mention the lose of daytime center leagues and overall decrease.
Corporations have never owned such a large percentage of houses nor has a single corporation ever owned 1 in 12. This is a huge huge problem if Bowlero dose not change their thinking. This decade will go done as the demise of it as a sport and solidify it as a recreation. On so many levels there is no more important customer than a league bowler and my same thinking way way before my first center manager job at barely age 16 forty-three years ago.
Last thought, you can have two centers within blocks with one failing and one wildly sucessfull or both sucessfull and difference will be hardworking managers and owners. Corporations running cookie cutter style of management in this industry is just ignorant and don't factor how quickly a demograpic can change or the nuances to make, keep it successful.
End soap box.
