Commerce idea: open bowling halls part 1

Despite in this case, what the costs of opening the bowling club are great - from 300,000 to continue up to 3 million dollars - with the best of circumstances and competent management of their likely "discourage" for one year. In the large cities of Russia there is too many players who are ready to part easily with 300-700 rubles per hour for rental of a single track
Past and present

According to experts, 20 years-ty five back in our country there were only two bowling halls - one in a greedy up to the luxury of Central Asia, the other - in an advanced Baltics. In the year of the Moscow Olympics to them to add 3, which appeared in the Metropolitan Hotel "Cosmos". The first real commercial bowling was "Alex", opened in 1997 and, by the way, up until now working in the Central House of the tourist.
From this moment "the dam burst": the bowling like a business "flowed" decent denyuzhku. In the pre-crisis times the recipe for commercial success was very simple: it was important to choose the appropriate size of the space, install a new (but mostly restored) equipment, as well as for the year were allowed to "recapture" all means. After hour rental track behaved client at least $ 50. Immediately, of course, profitability on the regime, however, but all the same, as if Paul says Primack, managing a network of bowling clubs "Planet Bowling," remains a very decent - not less than 25%. In Moscow, the time in 2-3 months according to still appears under one new club.
According to Andrew Sheetlin, manager of the club XL, now operates in the capital of not less than 70 clubs. This is just only clubs that are open for all. And also there is again the mass of corporate scattered evenly in the offices as well as country estates "new Russian". In general, the total number of tracks that are traditionally measured market size of bowling, in Moscow, close to a thousand (exactly across the country - to two thousand). Set it or not? According to statistics, every track in the U.S. has 2,000 individual, in Europe - 10000 individual. The same about us - as much as 72,000! Thus, the market is already very far from saturation.
How much money annually Muscovites leave in a bowling club, it is easy to calculate. The average rent per hour track is from 300 rubles per day up to 700 rubles, then 18 pm.