Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc. reported outstanding results for the first quarter of 2022, despite steadily increasing inflation. Revenue increased to a record $451.1 million compared with $265.3 million in the first quarter of 2021 and $363.6 million in the first quarter of 2019. Total comparable sales increased 10.9% compared with the same period in 2019. “We set records […]

National Bowling Day is back in 2022, and it will be celebrated on Saturday, Aug. 13. The goal of the Strike Ten Entertainment initiative: Motivate consumers to visit bowling centers just ahead of the fall league season start. The consumer-facing Go Bowling brand will have representatives from the BPAA and Bowlers to Veterans Link on […]

Creative Realities Inc., a leading provider of digital signage solutions, and Strike Ten Entertainment have announced a marketing partnership designed to help bowling centers grow their revenues by using digital signage to transform the food-and-beverage experience. The marketing partnership provides a robust, continuous platform for Creative Realities to showcase how its offering can help revolutionize the […]

Remember the nationwide youth bowling initiative known as Super Bowling Saturday? It brought thousands of young people into bowling centers across the country, and a significant percentage was converted into league bowlers. The new question for 2023 is: Can our industry catch lightning in a bottle twice? The International Bowling Campus Youth Development team hopes so, […]

Dennis Scheirs received the 2022 John Davis Award from Kegel CEO Chris Chartrand during International Bowl Expo in Las Vegas. Scheirs was hired by Kegel founder John Davis and has been with the company for 25 years. He began by helping develop a world-class facility for manufacturing lane oil and cleaner, and more recently has […]

Brunswick Bowling Products’ StringPin pinsetters made their sanctioned international bowling tournament debut in the 2022 Bolivarian Games at Mega Bowling in Valledupar, Colombia in late June. The International Bowling Federation approved the use of string pinsetters for sanctioned tournaments last year. The Bolivarian Games, first held in 1938, was created to honor the Simón Bolívar, […]

During the 2022 Bowling Summit in January, it was “the elephant in the room.” Bowlero Corp., which operates more than 300 bowling centers across North America, had not renewed its membership in the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America. Midway through International Bowl Expo in late June, the elephant had left the building with the announcement […]

The 21st annual Chicagoland BPA Bowlers Day With the White Sox is set for Sunday, Aug. 28, when the Arizona Diamondbacks come to town. The Illinois State Bowling Proprietors Association is offering specially priced game tickets and a pre-game picnic patio area package, both of which include a specially designed White Sox Bowlers Day cap […]

Patrick F. Bosco, Executive Director Emeritus of the Illinois State and Chicagoland Bowling Proprietors Associations, passed away on July 3. He was 90. Bosco served bowling center owners in greater Chicago and the entire state of Illinois from 1980 through 1997. Prior to accepting the post, he was the owner and operator of Bloomfield Bowl, […]