At some point down the line, probably about two or three years from now, I intend to open my own little pool hall here in my home town. Nothing too big, I think, but I have been debating over many details, one of which is “what is the best pool table?” for such a business. I might wind up choosing to put in a nice mizerak pool table or three, and include just a couple coin operated pool tables. But, depending on the size of the place that I choose, I might not need too many pool tables after all, and I might not want to worry about dispensing a rack of pool balls to each customer that comes in. If that’s the case, then I might choose to go with only the coin operated pool table and have done with it. I’m not sure yet. The jury is still out, hahaha. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter, so far:
Why the sudden interest in coin operated pool tables? I mean, I grew up playing on sweet, well maintained 9′ pool tables, right? Why mess with first love? Well, first off, every coin-op table that I install will give me that small bit more freedom within my business to take care of something else instead of hanging around at the counter waiting for customers to check-in or check-out. And another thing is that after a bit of searching around to see what exactly is out there nowadays, I found some great pool tables from a business named Shelti, out in Michigan. These guys offer some really sharp looking coin ops, and some of them come with a great feature: electronic, programmable, dollar bill/coin operated pool tables.
I think this is pretty neat! The control panels for these tables have LCD displays, battery indicator, coin mechanism and dollar acceptor/stacker, a free-play key switch, all secured by a steel door and lock. Some cool options for programming allow for:
- standard single-game play
- timed play
- bonus pricing (for regulars and long-term users I suppose)
- happy hour pric...
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