Vol. XXII, No. 10, October 2022

  1. Pumpkin breaks record for largest ever grown in North America
  2. Drinking is falling out of vogue
  3. Getting LBE design right the first time
  4. Healthy kids' meals trending in the restaurant industry
  5. Are Dave & Buster's comparable store sales really booming?
  6. How important are restaurant reviews?
  7. Participation in Halloween-related activities to be at pre-pandemic levels
  8. Pickleball's popularity and hospitality venues growing
  9. Interest in non-alcoholic beverages on the decline
  10. Define your ideal customer - or be magnetic to no one
  11. Davis Mega Maze Colossal Adventures' corn maze among country's best
  12. Keeping up with guests' increasingly dynamic preferences
  13. Robotics creating pizzatainment
  14. More thoughts on socialized gaming, aka competitive socializing
  15. Can competitive socialization work with F1 simulators?

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Can competitive socialization work with F1 simulators?

Adam Breeden, a pioneer in competitive socializing with Flight Club, Bounce, and Puttshack, believes he can. Next month he's opening F1 Arcade in London, featuring 60 motion F1 simulators combined with food and drink offerings.


Rendering of F1 Arcade

The F1 Arcade venue will definitely offer competition on the simulators. But we're not sure if it qualifies as competitive socializing, or as we call it, socialized gaming, as the competition is between all the people in the group simultaneously side-by-side on the simulators rather than one person playing while the others watch. And you can't consume the food and drink while playing.

That's not to say F1 Arcade won't be successful in a highly dense population city like London.

Vol. XXII, No. 10, October 2022

  1. Pumpkin breaks record for largest ever grown in North America
  2. Drinking is falling out of vogue
  3. Getting LBE design right the first time
  4. Healthy kids' meals trending in the restaurant industry
  5. Are Dave & Buster's comparable store sales really booming?
  6. How important are restaurant reviews?
  7. Participation in Halloween-related activities to be at pre-pandemic levels
  8. Pickleball's popularity and hospitality venues growing
  9. Interest in non-alcoholic beverages on the decline
  10. Define your ideal customer - or be magnetic to no one
  11. Davis Mega Maze Colossal Adventures' corn maze among country's best
  12. Keeping up with guests' increasingly dynamic preferences
  13. Robotics creating pizzatainment
  14. More thoughts on socialized gaming, aka competitive socializing
  15. Can competitive socialization work with F1 simulators?

[ Index of Previous eNewsletters ]