Haven't seen this on here before, so I thought I'd ask...  How is the seating where you bowl?  I bowl in a house that has like 1 table per lane with 4 fixed seats per table, and one loose one on the end.  About every 4 lanes, they do have a "bar" with 4 stools around it, but it sits out in the middle with the tables.  In my opinion, this is worst layout I've ever encountered at the lanes.  We all sit there between shots, as teams, and it boils down to looking like a grade school dance - boys on one side, girls on the other and no mixing.  Personally, (I'm oldschool) I liked the old seating around the telescore console with tables a little further back.  Seems you could hang around the scoring unit (sometimes keeping score) and BS more with the people you were bowling against rather than being separated at different tables all the time.  Besides, I thought the old seating was more comfortable anyway...
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Why, WHY won't the last one just fall??  It's WIGGLING for cryin' out loud!!

Where I bowl, we have the AMF fixed chairs arranged in settee fashion, with a little table between the last and next-to-last seat for each lane.  They were brand new 5 years ago(gray with a triangular-ahaped hole on the bottom of the backrest). Standing behind them and looking at them have reminded some of Pokemon with the hole and screws and all(his eyes and mouth).

We also have a pair of round tables and chairs for each lane pair- one behind the settee area and one up on the concourse- similar to what you would see at a restaurant.

All of the newer centers have the table and chair formation alluded to above known as "Frameworks". Looks and works better in centers without steps.
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