The most popular sports of the 80s were dancing, ice skating, billiards and bowling.

However, the tide is also graded. As a result, the more resources it requires, the more foreign it seems.

Dancing and skating belong to the general tide of Cheng dù, especially dancing, often a radio, a loudspeaker, and then find an open venue to dance, very simple, and the square dance of later generations is very similar. Of course, the same people are involved.

In addition to the commercial dance hall, the staff dance hall was the mainstream in the 80s, and various factories and mining institutions often built their own staff dance halls, and also sold tickets for a fee...... These conditions are acceptable, and the dance hall with low fees has played a significant role in promoting the dance culture, and correspondingly, after the status of the workers has plummeted, the staff dance hall has in turn greatly weakened its value.

The grade of billiards depends on the level of consumption. In 84, there was already an hourly snooker in the city of Beijing, and in the wide streets and alleys, the street billiards cases that came and went were also crowded with people.

While the ballroom, ice rink and billiards room are a tizzy novelty, they don't add up to the bowling alley.

Not to mention anything else, just the light floor in the bowling alley can make the men and women who come here for the first time have weak legs, and the idle rich businessmen, who do not carry thousands of dollars in their arms, enter the bowling alley of forty or fifty per game, which is not confident at all.

And the more high-end places there are, the more they attract the hipster men and women who come to the bowling alley to play, just like the horseback archery golf of later generations.

I'm not afraid that you're expensive, I'm afraid you're not the most expensive!

Wang Guohua and the others came in with Yang Rui, so they felt a little confident.

Even so, Xu Jing kept pulling her clothes, obviously feeling a little nervous.

"We want three ways. Yang Rui stood at the door ** money.

The waiter saw that it was a group of students, and just as he wanted to say something, he saw a stack of banknotes, so he swallowed the words that came to his mouth, and said, "There is one way, you have to wait for an hour and a half, and the remaining two roads have to wait for more than two hours, do you want to wait?" ”

And so on. "Looking at it, there are a total of 20 roads, full of people, and there is no way to play without waiting.

"45 yuan per game, first open 9 rounds for you, is it okay to change people to play? Do you want a coach to guide? The coach is free. "A round of bowling is 10 rounds, and there are two pitching opportunities in each round, and if there is no one-time knockdown of the whole game, 10 rounds is 20 pitches, one person at a time, and it is normal to play a game in a quarter of an hour.

For a bowling game or practice with multiple participants, you need to open multiple rounds.

9 people play, under normal circumstances, it is natural to open 9 rounds at the same time, 10 rounds per person, 20 throwing opportunities, and record the score of each knockdown.

In this way, it takes about two and a half hours to finish nine rounds, and even if you are all novices, it usually takes no more than three hours.

According to the calculation of 45 yuan per game, 9 people playing bowling for three hours will cost 400 yuan, an average of more than 130 yuan per hour, which definitely exceeds the monthly salary of ordinary workers.

Wang Guohua listened to this number, his brows jumped, and he hurriedly grabbed Yang Rui and said, "Otherwise, let's start a game first." ”

"You can't play a game first. Yang Rui patted his hand and whispered, "Aren't we here for an inspection?" It's okay, we can reimburse him." ”

After speaking, Yang Rui paid the waiter, asked him to issue an invoice, and found a coach.

In fact, without him saying it, the waiter issued the invoice.

For such an expensive sport, unless it is a foreign guest, it is rare that there is no invoice.

However, there are many foreigners who play here.

Yang Rui took a cursory look at it, at least more than half of the fairways were played by foreigners, and three-quarters of the foreigners were East Asians.

In Asia, bowling was the first to become popular in Japan, and it took more than a decade for them to introduce it to China.

It can be said that the current Japanese are in a similar enthusiasm for bowling in China in the 90s, and it is almost foreseeable that there must be countless Japanese people who are not sleeping and forgetting to eat.

The cost of 45 yuan per game is really easy for Japanese people in the bubble economy era.

"Have any of you ever bowled?" the coach said kindly.

"It's all newbies. Yang Rui said with a smile.

"Then I'll talk about it in unison, and then I'll give you corrective actions one by one. The coach went on to speak and demonstrate.

After a while, Yang Rui and others came on the field in order, tried it a few times, and had a lot of fun.

Among them, Cao Baoming learned the fastest, only the fourth time, and actually completed the knockdown of ten pins twice, shouting excitedly.

"Isn't it fun?" Yang Rui stood beside Wang Guohua, who knocked down 6 balls at most.

"It's fun, it's fun, foreigners can really play!" Wang Guohua said a series of interjections.

"Then the sports center we built, the first step is to make a bowling alley, do you have any opinions?"

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!" everyone in the Rui Xue group raised their hands.

Liu Shan asked a little worriedly: "This bowling alley is so advanced, will it cost a lot? ”

"The cost is the responsibility of the investor, and we just need to prove that the profit is high enough. "Yang Rui himself is an investor and knows what to pay attention to, if it weren't for the high profits of the bowling alley, Yang Rui would not have chosen this project.

Wang Guohua pinched his fingers and calculated: "45 yuan in a game, you can play 4 rounds in an hour on average?"

"In fact, you can't play so much, because everyone is a novice, slow people, it is possible to play a game in half an hour, in addition, the coach's teaching time should also be counted in it, and it will be an inevitable loss to open up new markets, but each group of people will spend a while teaching, and it will take a lot of time to calculate. On average, I play about three rounds an hour. Yang Rui made a slight correction.

Liu Shan showed a slight surprise and said: "On average, if you play three games in an hour, you will have an income of 135 yuan in one fairway, and 20 fairways will earn 2,700 yuan in an hour?"

When this number was calculated, several people were taken aback.

"It can't be said that I earned 2,700 yuan, and the turnover was 2,700 yuan, but I had to subtract various expenses, electricity and parts costs were the majority, and the construction cost of the bowling alley had to be averaged, but I did earn enough...... Yang Rui said and laughed.

Bowling alleys in the mid-80s and mid-90s are actually very similar to Internet cafes in the mid-90s and mid-00s, with relatively high upfront investment, but once they are in operation, they are a steady stream of cash cows.

Like the Internet café, the bowling alley runs for a long time every day, and it is basically full after 10 o'clock in the morning, and this state can last almost until mid-night, which is a full 10 hours, which means an average of 2 per day for the 20-lane venue of the Lido Hotel in Beijing. More than 70,000 turnover.

The reason why I say the above is because there is still income in the early morning.

Just like an Internet café has a package night, the bowling alley also has a discount after the early morning, usually 25 yuan a game or less, which can ensure that the bowling alley is at full capacity in the early morning of the weekend, or has about half of the customer rate on weekdays, no matter what, the bowling alley will make a lot of money.

In addition, soft drinks, snacks, beer, as well as the business of renting sneakers, selling sneakers and bowling balls, can also bring in a lot of money, at least enough to cover the daily expenses of the stadium.

And the same bowling alley, in the late 90s, was extremely miserable, the fee of less than ten yuan per game, than in the mid-80s, the worst venues, the membership fee will even fall to two or three yuan per game, even so, the ordinary 20 courses are still not full, let alone the early morning income.

By around 2000, the fairways of the Lido Hotel in Beijing were broken, and no repairs were made at all, and some small bowling alleys were even reluctant to turn on the air conditioning, or simply closed their doors.

Yang Rui doesn't care how long the bowling alley can be opened, but it is best to enter the factory from 84, if there are many customers, a venue can recover the principal in a few months.

In fact, in the current environment, the more fairways are built, the less the cost of the stadium will be amortized, and the faster the return on investment, just like the larger the Internet café, the higher the profit margin.

There may be a lot of people who can see bowling alleys making money, but in 1984, there were really not many people who could spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to build bowling alleys.

"I'm going to look for a place tomorrow, find an investment, and then buy equipment like fairways, and you can also ask where there is a suitable venue to build a stadium. By the way, you can go to your respective schools to find some familiar classmates, who are willing to work part-time, and we will train in advance. "Bowling alleys were extremely tall in the 80s, and this kind of place, employing college students to work part-time, can also improve the quality of service and enhance the style.

Wang Guohua and the others were quite excited, and immediately began to discuss.

Yang Rui took a bowling ball and handed it to Liu Shan, and said with a smile: "It's your turn." ”

Liu Shan took it with a smile and made a not-so-standard sliding step, and the loose sweatpants suddenly tightened out of the curve.

......The whistle sounded at the right time. But it was four young men in their twenties, holding drinks, who happened to pass by.

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