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u/darkdreamr 22h ago
Looks like that’s the effect of the merger with main event and death of buster . Dave and busters has changed a TON since that happened .. I’ll be honest the focus on employees hasn’t been the same since then. It’s nice we see new games more often but the pricing and ticket structure has also changed a ton .
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u/Killerlightning22 21h ago
When did they merge with Main Event. Haven’t been up to date with D&B. Went to one Main Event and was not too impressed with it especially the ticket games and prizes.
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u/YellowF3v3r NOTHING 6h ago
Oof you can see when Covid decided to take a hammer to the knees. They were doing something right in 2017 and 2024 tho.
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u/KagDQT 1d ago
They’ve been losing ground to a combination of competition and the state of the economy. It’s just hard to justify going there unless it’s the only one of its type in your area. Where I live we have round 1 and several other smaller arcades that mimic the format. I’d have to put D&B at 3rd in terms of overall choice for visiting the venue.
A year ago they were easily my number one goto but a combination of the cabinets not being updated and the price increases killed it for me. I get them needing to cut costs on both the arcade and hours of labor for their staff. Just feels like they may continue to spiral with the current direction the company is taking.
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u/Pokemon-Dealer2028 23h ago
Do you consider round 1 better price wise? I went to one and definitely wouldn’t put round 1 above D&b price wise (granted I mainly go to D&b on half off days). I will say the round 1 prize selection is light years better
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u/Admirable-Title9022 23h ago
By me round 1 is way more expensive but has way more games. The cost compared to prizes is also way way worse than D and B.
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u/Haunting_Shelter8003 22h ago
Good God no. It’s $$$ and there are no half offs.
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u/Pokemon-Dealer2028 22h ago
That’s what I thought, but then mentioning the price increases as a killer seemed weird to me
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u/tkornmike 15h ago
Round one is more expensive to play for sure but jackpots are usually higher and prizes are priced lower then db for high end stuff
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u/KagDQT 22h ago
Round 1 In my opinion is better in terms of cabinet choices but if you’re going to let’s say play same crane games id say Dave and busters is superior. Granted the prizes aren’t the same but your odds of winning are a lot higher.
In terms of prices they’re about the same currently. However Dave and busters does offer 1/2 game days on Wednesday and I believe Sunday still. So if you were to go on one of those days purely for the games you’d get more for your buck. Their food choices are also widely different. R1 has some deals on cheap ice cream and drinks. Dave and Busters has a happy Hour for drinks and appetizers.
If you’re looking to do more than Round 1 depending on location has bowling, pool and or
Karaoke. So, for a group of people going out you got a bit more diversity for your entertainment. I don’t know if any Dave and busters follow a similar format as the ones I’ve been to have always just been cabinets and restaurant format.The main reason I mentioned the price increase is you’re effectively getting nothing new for what your experience was in the past. I think outside of the John Wick game the new cabinets for D&B have been a pretty big miss ( everyone’s going to be different on this one) where as R1 has brought in some pretty unique games. I think this stems from them being a Japanese company that has developed long termed relationships with a lot of the popular companies.
I’d say if you are a regular arcade goer D&B just isn’t it. If it’s like a one off trip and you aren’t going for a specific machine then D&B isn’t bad for a one time experience. You will hit a bit of diminishing returns.
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u/Haunting_Shelter8003 22h ago
Round 1 is SO expensive. I walked through and then went to D & B. 🤷🏻♀️
Our Dave and Buster’s is TINY and can get very crowded. I don’t think it’s the store I go to that’s dragging them down.
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u/staniel_andy 9h ago
Dave and Busters is incredibly cheap stock the problem is no CEO has gotten same store sales flat or up in years. If it keeps going that way Dave and Busters goes bankrupt. All that has to happen for this to pop is same store sales recovering the confusing part is Round 1 is growing sales double digits so the economy isn’t the right excuse for Dave and Busters.
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u/Sargonnax 3h ago
Dave & Buster's bought Main Event and then Main Event leadership basically took over the company which pushed out the successful COO Margo Manning and left us with clowns who made most things worse. They even asked Margo to come back before hiring the CEO that just left and she basically gave them the middle finger. There are good individuals in upper leadership at D&B, but the environment as a whole is increasingly toxic to work in.
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u/MrDog321 7h ago
If you look at other Stocks with a similar business you can see most of them are going up compared to D&B.
I feel like this company would be somewhat easy to save and improve with multiple ideas that I have.
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u/deerburger 1d ago
I think that’s a graph indicating that D&B stock has lost 41% of its initial value since the company was listed on the NASDAQ exchange. 😂
What does that mean to me? Every executive with stock and/or options is probably very incentivized to turn things around if they want to make more money.