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Re: Diary of an Arcade Employee
01/05/13 04:54 AM
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> Someone's advertisement/article series about working in their new local arcade. (He
> wasn't an arcade employee back in the day but now in one of these cottage-industry
> "retrocades".)
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> http://www.retroist.com/2012/12/31/diary-of-an-arcade-employee-my-time-at-the-arkadia-retrocade/
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> - Stiletto
I wish they were as profitable today. I've run through the numbers several times, and they just don't meet a decent margin unless everything is perfect (location/foot traffic, rent, licensing, etc.)
The biggest kick are the archaic licensing fees still on the books. My town is on the cheap side, and it's a local tag fee of $77 a year, state fee of $30. That's $5 grand a year just for the stickers in an arcade of 50 games. ($14 a day, right off the top)
I think I had the money at $10K a month to operate at a break-even with taking a pretty light salary. I'm not sure how these other guys do it with the traffic I've seen.
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