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Bowling in general has gotten much more expensive because so many places love booking lanes per hour per person. And they are all very expensive. Makes the $4-$5 per game places of just a decade or so ago look dirt cheap in comparison.
It’s too bad because bowling is fun even when you suck at it.
Is there anything private equity hasn’t made objectively worse?
No, Private Equity makes things worse by definition. The incentives of a PE firm are misaligned with building a healthy business that builds consumer trust and treats employees well - if your company is acquired by PE you can expect worse working conditions, tighter deadlines or metrics, worse compensation… and having to deal with much angrier clients.
Well yeah but also no. I feel like Sam from Wendover went over this quite well recently: https://youtu.be/XK8hpxR_r2Y
Another industry becoming enshitified. I really wish there was something we, the people, could do about this, because this really fucking sucks. Average people won’t care though, because shiny.
I Dunno man I think this is really one where just not going to bowlero would do the trick. Maybe it’s different because I’m in the midwest, but there are plenty of places way better and cheaper than bowlero and I think the local populous knows. Because the bowlero by me is only ever full if a company is doing an event there. Otherwise the general consensus is “wtf no I don’t want to go to the loud dark bowling alley with 9 dollar drinks and microwave wings”
But you will, because the rest will close eventually. It’s a long game. The mom and pops won’t survive forever.
Will what? I almost never go bowling anymore because it’s gotten so expensive. Didn’t even start with Bowlero, I don’t think. They were just another company that came in and made the affordable places more expensive.
If it weren’t for the bowling league IDK if the place would be all that busy.