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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5601197" data-attributes="member: 21076">Oh I agree, these are all business decisions. For all we know the people doing it for free are doing excellent business and they feel the increased regular traffic to their store is resulting in increased sales that make up for free gaming tables.  Or maybe not.  We don't know though.I agree with this as well. I don't think a lot of customers think about these kinds of things when they choose who to patronize though. Should they? Yes. Do they?I think it is shortsighted of a business owner to think the majority of their customers are thinking about the business plan of the store. While a store might need to charge to play - they need to do something to give themselves a leg up on the competition to make people want to pay that fee.  Relying on the customer so simply realize the business methods behind it isn't likely to be successful.Really - the way Kzach described the store they very well may have done this. Sounds like a Mom and Pop store, which to some would be enough to warrant paying to play in that type of atmosphere.</blockquote>