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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clark411" data-source="post: 1490238" data-attributes="member: 4768">If you are going to have tables set up for gaming, and the gaming isn't card-based, you'll probably want to set up some kind of hourly or session-based fee system for table usage.  You can have discounts for regulars and those who bring in referred customers.  If you don't have some policy like this- that space will simply be valuable square footage that you'll have to clean each night, which will earn you little to no indirect income and, depending on your location, you'll have to spend money heating or keeping cool.  Basically a money-sink, especially with groups that don't buy your minis each week, or who don't regularly destroy their books and need to replace them.  At least the card-kids tend to buy packs on a regular basis (relative to rpgers).Soda and snack machines, little wall partitions, and probably sound-reducers (like angled panels a foot or so from the walls.. that goodness) are a must in those kinds of environments.  If you are planning to have whiteboards, sell the markers for them or have a Bring Your Own policy.  The only free materials in your place should be those that help the players clean up after themselves.  If you offer a lot of generosity, pencils, markers, etc- you'll suffer shrinkage and complaints.  "Why are there no markers this week?" "I've gone through four packs this month- some people keep stealing them, and I can't effectively monitor them for their 6 hour sessions and hope to sell comics."You'll also want calendars and a bulletin board.  Reserving table time should be a very simple thing for gamers, and this seems like a social environment you're going for, so you want to have things that build or foster a lil community.</blockquote>

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