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Alternative Entertainment: How Arcades, Pinball and Duckpin Bowling Can Benefit Your Taproom

Craft Beer Advisory Services cites “family friendliness” as one of the top 4 factors that contribute to a guest returning to a taproom. As many breweries focus on how to get more guests in their taproom and spending more while they’re there, considering unique forms of entertainment may be an answer.

In this conversation, we’re going to talk to industry experts from both the arcade and pinball world, in addition to several breweries who have dedicated energy into outside-the-box forms of entertainment.

We will learn what concepts they’re seeing success with, the investment required to get it going, what they’ve learned, and how these new forms of entertainment benefit their brewery.

This conversation features:

Chris O’Neill (One Well Brewing)

Jason Brewer (Wandering Monsters Brewing Company)

Jonathan Kacmarcik (Southland Entertainment)

Tylor Carson (Stern Pinball)