Your Dream Store

[Gurndigarn]

An arcade, done the way I want it done, with all the great games I can lay hands on, and No Damn Ticket Games*.

It's a good think you're independently wealthy and don't need nice profits. Every arcade I ever ran, no matter what the local demographics were like, made a boatload of money off those games. More than the Video Game Du Jour, for about the same or lower upfront cost, and it keeps making money longer (enough to more than balance out material and labor costs of running the prize counter.)

But hey, since you're doing this... make sure you've got a good pinball line.


Edit: One of the first things I would do with new hires was walk them around the arcade, and ask them "What do you think makes the most money here?" They would almost always point to GutRipper Mayhem XII, then High Explosive IV (with BloodMobile bonus round)... and would be stunned when I pointed in the other direction and say, "nope, it's the coin pusher over there. Followed by the coin roller over there. Your favorite game actually tips in at number four." It usually managed to get them focused on the fact that yes, I do want you to make sure the prize case stays clean and full at all times.

[Antisocial_Worker]

...On the other side of The Withered Wretch my co-worker Mark would operate a coffee shop called "The Ugly Mug". All the mugs provided would be unbearably tacky and ugly, but the coffee would be good...

There was a coffee shop about a quarter mile from where I used to live called The Ugly Mug. Their mascot was a bulldog.

[JustADude]

A CS.com gaming store??? That would definitely be awesome! And we'd make sure our employees were all gaming geeks of various genres too, right? Hmmmm ... What would we call our store?

Personally, I've always fancied the name Blue Heaven for a gaming store, with a cyber-punk angel for the mascot character on the logo designs.

[MoxisPilot]

While my dream would be to run my own dive shop, I'm sure you all would find it terribly uninteresting to hear about my plans to have a wall of nothing but fins and masks.

Therefore, I'll tell you my next dream: a coffee shop located - serendipitously, one might say - next to, below, and across from: a bookstore, an upscale clothing store full of women who MUST have designer coffee, a legal firm, and a late-night D&D/MTG/Sci-fi/Fantasy store.

I would, of course, reserve the right to deny people their shot of caffeine, should any of them treat my employees in a manner that I deem unfit for a socially-active adult.

[iradney]

Well, since there's already a book store, I would open a music store called either Aural Secks or Eargasms. I would not stock alot of battery farm pop (might have to in order to break even at least), but I would have records and CDs of non-mainstream music and collector's items and rare things. I would also include DVDs, T-shirts, and posters. TTO will be the bouncer

[Shangri-laschild]

My ex best friend and I had always talked about a gaming/comic book store that we wanted to open called "Have a Day" with a neutral face instead of a smiley face. Not much meaning behind the name except both of us tend to do a lot of things for the simple fact that they amuse us. Opening it would have been a bad idea, but it was fun to talk about. As well as comic books and gaming supplies we were also going to sell other stuff like the nifty old tin lunch boxes and fun t-shirts and an odd variety of stuff.

[Geek King]

It's a good think you're independently wealthy and don't need nice profits.

Gurn, I know the modern arcade needs those games to survive, but this is our Dream Store, remember? And yes, that would be exactly what I would open if I were independantly wealthy. A couple of folks in the industry have their own arcades, set up just the way they want them. My dream, My rules. I'll let you work on the games if you're nice though. Free off the clock play for employees, too.

[Gurndigarn]

Gurn, I know the modern arcade needs those games to survive, but this is our Dream Store, remember?

Oh, I know that. You did notice my request for a wall of pinballs, right? With a tech who's at least as good as I am?

[Geek King]

Oh, I know that. You did notice my request for a wall of pinballs, right? With a tech who's at least as good as I am?

Done and done. I just have to figure out which tables to get--there are so many good ones!

Oh, and truely awsome air hockey tables. I love me some air hockey. When I used to play it with my sister, it was compared to professional-level ping-pong as we'd have the puck moving faster than people could really follow. My friends won't play air hockey with me any more after I beat them all one night.

[Imogene]

I'm... a bit leery to post my dream store, as I actually really want it to be unique... though, I might unintentionally be telling friends in my area about my thoughts, to see what could be done to improve things/to get a backing of workers before I even have the whole thing planned out.

Short version? Restaurant for a Rocky Horror/Shock Treatment shadow cast... your servers and kitchen people would all play parts from the movies... just imagine Frank N Furter sitting down to eat your dinner with you.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I've got an idea for a call center bouncing around in my head. It doesn't matter what it's a call center for (computer tech support, hotel reservations, etc)

It has two tiers, tier 1 and tier 2. Tier 1 is where everybody starts out. The reps will be friendly and courteous and speak clearly. Should a caller become unduly sucky/entitled/sweary/abusive and so forth, they get sent up to tier 2....

where all the reps talk like Joe Walsh.

[AnaKhouri]

My husband loves Joe Walsh. So he might like that!

[Pezzle]

I'm... a bit leery to post my dream store, as I actually really want it to be unique... though, I might unintentionally be telling friends in my area about my thoughts, to see what could be done to improve things/to get a backing of workers before I even have the whole thing planned out.

Short version? Restaurant for a Rocky Horror/Shock Treatment shadow cast... your servers and kitchen people would all play parts from the movies... just imagine Frank N Furter sitting down to eat your dinner with you.

Like Jack Rabbit Slim's? haha

[Sandman]

A former of the site who is my best friend (all you long time members should know who i'm talking about) had an idea for a pizza place, called Jimmy's Big Ass Pizza. We had different sizes pizza; tiny ass, medium ass, large ass, and the party size called wide ass. Slices would be called pieces of ass. Our customers would be called assholes, and he would have ass managers.

[Rapscallion]

I keep meaning to ask - how's he doing?

Rapscallion