I want to open a gaming cafe in my town. Few basics first, its a relatively small city with around 100k people. And there are already 3 other gaming cafes working pretty nicely.
Now I do know that it is a very large investment and the ROI is pretty slow, with 3 other competitors it is questionable if one small source of earnings will be enough.
So what I thought is to make a sort of community, along with having a regular gaming cafe I would also have a separate space for streamers and teams. I would sponsor these streamers and teams, I would also have them make guides, reviews and similar, possibly attracting sponsors (already have a few local ones interested).
And on top of that, I would also organize different events, competitions and such.
There are enough people interested in doing everything I've mentioned.
So assuming that having people or money for any tasks isn't an issue, what are the things I could add to my gaming cafe/community?
Of course I have to make a profit in the long run, but any suggestions and ideas are welcomed.
Michael Gomez
gaming cafe have been dead since 2005 dont waste ur time/money
Sebastian Hernandez
Which region of the world do you live in? This is pretty important in what you can pull off with a gaming cafe.
Overall I think it's a good idea, but depends where it is
Colton Perez
Coffee and food. Allow delivery at your place.
Hardware is cheap if you use thin clients and Gaming as a Service providers. This is the most economical way to have blazing fast games without the investment in computers.
Daniel Wood
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Michael Fisher
Make sure to keep your bathrooms clean and fresh. Don't know how many times I've went to pc bangs and the toilets were so bad that I never returned.
Hudson Lopez
This! Are gaming caffes really still a thing? Where are you from?
Adrian Myers
better off mining than doing this. At least with mining you don't have to constantly clean other people's shit
Jaxson Turner
The absolute worst business model.
>have to buy pc equipment that gets outdated in 2 years >people will not take care of any of it >people dont want to pay $/hr to game >costs of games alone will be insane >software for logins costs a lot >viruses will rape your pcs >gpu costs through the roof for a long time good fucking luck
Noah Hughes
Yeah where the fuck do you live to have 3 gaming cafes in a city of 100k people that are doing well for themselves.
I live in a city of 500k people and as far as I know there is a total of zero gaming cafes here.
