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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6941843" data-attributes="member: 8835">actual board games take awhile to play, so that means people sitting there longer, drinking refills, well past the point of making more sales off them because they are full.Or, as one of my business partners has commented (given that he used to be a chef and owned like 4 restaurants), it's starts to become a 3 ring circus when a restaurant starts trying more gimics and events and activities to boost sales, rather than focus on what restaurants' core function is:  to cook and serve good food.If you were going to add "gaming", in the times I've seen it, it's been more at coffee/tea houses, where the usage of the tables for studying/etc is considered normal.  And mostly, you wouldn't host a specific game, so much as maybe have a shelf of games to borrow or people would just decide to bring one in,  I certainly wouldn't focus on a "child's game" like Pokemon unless you want to be overrun with children, half of whom don't have extra money.I have seen a game shop in my area that runs a tab-system.  So as you game, you can buy some dice, a coke, candybar and they'll throw it on your tab so you don't have to stop playing to buy it.So running a gaming room like a bar (or restaurant) might work, but consider it's more like a bar than a fine dining experience.</blockquote>