The most trendy sports in the 1980s were dancing, ice skating, billiards and bowling.

However, trends are also divided into grades. As a result, the more resources you need, the more fashionable you exercise it seems.

Dancing and ice skating are generally trendy, especially dancing. They are often a radio, a loudspeaker, and then find an empty venue to dance. It is extremely simple and very similar to the square dance in later generations. Of course, the participants are also the same group of people.

In addition to commercial dance halls, employee dance halls were the mainstream in the 1980s. All factories and mining institutions often built their own employee dance halls and also charged external fees to sell tickets... These conditions are acceptable and the low-cost dance halls have a significant role in promoting dance culture. Correspondingly, after the workers' status plummeted, the employee dance halls in turn greatly weakened their value.

The level of billiards depends on consumption. In 1984, there were already snookers in Beijing that were billed by hour in the city, and in the wide streets and alleys, the street billiards that were played at will were crowded with people.

Although dance halls, ice rinks and billiards are already fresh things full of moisture, they can't catch up with the bowling alleys together.

Not to mention anything else, just the floor in the bowling alley that can be seen, the men and women who come here for the first time can make the first time men and women who are weak and easy to get into the bowling alley of forty or fifty in their arms, which is not as confident as they can.

The more high-end the venue, the more it attracts the trendy men and women who come to the bowling alley, just like the horse riding and archery golf in later generations.

I am not afraid of you being expensive, but I am afraid that you are not the most expensive!

Wang Guohua and others came in with Yang Rui and felt a little confident.

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

"We want three ways." Yang Rui stood at the door and handed over the money.

When the waiter saw that it was a group of students, he was about to say something, and saw a stack of banknotes. He swallowed the words to his mouth and said, "There is a way that you have to wait for an hour and a half. The remaining two ways that you have to wait for more than two hours. Do you want to wait?"

"Wait." Looking around, there were 20 roads in total, and there were people all over the place, so there was no more fun without waiting.

"Each inning is 45 yuan, I'll give you 9 games first. Can I play with someone else? Do I need coaching? The coach is free." A bowling game is 10 rounds, and there are two chances of pitching in each round. If you don't hit all the knockouts at once, 10 rounds will be 20 pitches, one person will play one by one, and it's normal to finish one round in a quarter of an hour.

Bowling matches or practices that multiple people participate in require multiple games to start.

9 people play, under normal circumstances, they naturally have to start 9 games at the same time, each with 10 rounds, 20 pitching opportunities, and record their respective knockdown scores.

In this way, it takes about two and a half hours to finish nine games. Even if you are all novice, it usually does not exceed three hours.

Calculated based on a game of 45 yuan, 9 people bowl for three hours will cost 400 yuan, with an average of more than 130 yuan per hour, which is definitely more than the monthly salary of ordinary workers.

Wang Guohua heard the number and his eyebrows jumped. He quickly grabbed Yang Rui and said, "Otherwise, we'll start a game first."

"I can't fight first." Yang Rui patted his hand and whispered: "Aren't we here for an investigation? It's okay, we can reimburse us."

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

In fact, without saying that, the waiter issued the invoice.

Such expensive sports are rarely used to not have invoices unless they are foreign guests.

However, there are quite a lot of foreigners playing here.

Yang Rui saw roughly that at least half of the fairways were played by foreigners, while three-quarters of the foreigners were East Asian.

In Asia, Japan was the first to popular bowling. They played for more than ten years before they introduced it to China.

It can be said that the Japanese are now in the bowling enthusiasm similar to that of China in the 1990s. It is almost foreseeable that countless Japanese must be bowling day and night.

The 45 yuan fee for a game is really easy for the Japanese in the bubble economy era.

"Has anyone of you ever played bowling?" The coach came warmly.

"All of them are newbie." Yang Rui said with a smile.

"Then I'll talk about it together, and then I'll give you some corrections." The coach continued to speak and demonstrate.

After a while, Yang Rui and others came on stage in sequence, tried several times, and then they had a lot of fun.

Among them, Cao Baoming learned the fastest, only for the fourth time, and finally completed the knockdown of ten ball bottles twice, and shouted excitedly.

"Is it fun?" Yang Rui stood beside Wang Guohua, who had knocked down 6 balls at the highest.

"It's fun, it's so fun, foreigners are really good at playing!" Wang Guohua made a series of exclamations.

"The first step we built is to build a bowling alley. Do you have any opinions?"

"agree!"

"Agree!" Everyone in the Ruixue Group raised their hands one after another.

Liu Shan asked with a little concern: "Will this bowling alley be so advanced, is it expensive? Those automatic ball changers are very expensive."

"The investor is responsible for the cost, and we can prove that the profit is high enough." Yang Rui himself is the investor and knows what to pay attention to. If it weren't for the high profits in the bowling alley, Yang Rui would not have chosen this project.

Wang Guohua calculated with his fingers: "A single game costs 45 yuan, can you play 4 games in an average of one hour?"

"In fact, we can't play so many, because we are all novices and slow-playing people, it is possible to play one round in half an hour. In addition, the coach's teaching time must be included. The inevitable loss of opening up new markets, but each group of people will take a while to teach, and it will take a lot of time to calculate. On average, it's about three rounds per hour." Yang Rui made a brief correction.

Liu Shan showed a slight surprise and said, "On average, three innings per hour, you can earn 135 yuan per fairway. 20 fairways, you can earn 2,700 yuan per hour?"

After calculating this number, several people were shocked.

"It can't be said that I made 2,700 yuan and the turnover is 2,700 yuan. To subtract various expenses, electricity and parts costs are the big ones, and the construction costs of the bowling alley need to be averaged, but I did make enough money..." Yang Rui laughed as he said.

Bowling alleys from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s were actually very similar to Internet cafes from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Their early investments were relatively high, but once they started running, they were a steady stream of cash cows.

Like Internet cafes, the bowling alley has a long running time every day, and it will be basically full after 10 o'clock in the morning. This state can last until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and it will last for 10 hours. For a 20-lane venue like Beijing Lidu Hotel, it means an average daily turnover of more than 27,000 yuan.

The reason for the above is that there is still income in the early morning.

Just like Internet cafes have a night out, the bowling alley also has discounts after the early morning, usually 25 yuan per game or even less. This can ensure that the bowling alley operates at full capacity in the early morning of the weekend, or that it usually has about half the passenger rate. No matter what, the bowling alley will make a lot of money.

In addition, soft drinks, snacks, beer, and the business of renting sneakers, selling sneakers and bowling can also bring considerable benefits, at least enough for the daily expenses of the arena.

The same bowling alley was extremely miserable in the late 1990s. The charges for less than ten yuan per game were less than those in the mid-1980s. The worst venues, the membership fees would even drop to two or three yuan per game. Even so, ordinary 20 stadiums still could not be fully filled, let alone earning in the early morning.

By around 2000, the fairway at the Lido Hotel in Beijing was broken and it was not repaired at all. Some small bowling alleys were reluctant to turn on the air conditioner or closed the door directly.

Yang Rui didn’t care how long the bowling alley could be opened, but it was best to enter the factory in 1984. If there were many customers, the principal would be recovered in a venue in a few months.

In fact, in the current environment, the more fairways are built, the less the cost of stadiums will be, and the faster the cost will be paid, just like the larger the Internet cafe, the higher the profit margin.

There may be many 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 a bowling alley.

"I will go to find places, investments, and then buy fairways and other equipment. You can also ask where there are suitable venues to build venues. By the way, you can find familiar classmates in their respective schools, who are willing to do part-time jobs, so we will train in advance." Bowling alleys were extremely tall in the 1980s. In this kind of place, hiring college students to do part-time jobs can also improve service quality to a certain extent and enhance style.

Wang Guohua and others were quite excited and immediately started discussing.

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

Liu Shan took it with a smile and put on a not-standard sliding movement. The loose sweatpants suddenly tightened out of the curve.

"Swish..." The whistle sounded in time. However, four young men from 200 were passing by with drinks.

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Chapter completed!