Simply: Find A restaurant that has >200 tables and serves

>>54199568
>Store doesn't even have 1 6x4 wargaming table
dropped

>>54199568
I don't understand. Are you saying pre-packaged product and a room full of chefs making food as its ordered are the same thing?

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>>54199731

Inefficiencies multiply as the size of the establishment grows. Problems begin to cascade.

This can manifest itself in many ways.

>>54199568
that store seems like its trying to do way to much. probably would never go there

>>54199612
>Store doesn't even have 1 6x4 wargaming table
>But has several t-shirt racks
Geek culture was a mistake

>>54199612
>>54199922
thats because warhammer is boring as fuck

>>54199568
What ducking restaurant has over 200 tables?

>>54200084
A cafeteria, I think, which would be OP's point.

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>clothes racks
>manchild collectors toys
>like two tables

What the fuck is that.

>>54200140
>body odor so thick it's created a visible haze

>>54200140
What is that guy wearing?

>>54200070
shut up cuck

>>54200629
Tutu of lesser virility

>>54200140
Holy moly the maft is tangible.

Honestly the main reason why you ought to go to FLGSes is simple - you will be more than "just another costumer" in the eyes of the folks working there, and your input matters. It's a lot more personal, and a lot more like a community.

It kinda reminds me of the community servers versus the official servers in videogames, in a way. And I realize that I'm sounding like a grognard despite being 19 and that deeply scares me.

>>54200819
What's wrong with being a grognard? There is nothing wrong with old games. They can be a lot of fun. The only reason that there is disparagement of the grogs is because the industry needs to increase gross profits.

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>>54200639

virgin detected

>>54200819
Im 23 and ive walked the same road already. Lets do it together.

>>54200128
I've never even been to a Piccadilly that had that many tables.

>>54200859
Nothing, really. Given I'm a /hwg/ guy the relations with grognards are a given, but I still feel like I'm too young to act towards the past like that.

>>54201050
Let's go, then.

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>>54200140
>Playing and merch areas are compressed into the same space.
>No overhead displays for time, pairings and other info.
>Like 5 tables.

What the fuck is that.

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>Mind-blowing design choice

Miniatures in a darkly-lit backroom

>>54199612
>Store doesn't even have any wargaming tables
>but it has an entire section for manga and weeb stuf
>but it has an entire section for lego
>but it has tons of stupid collector bullshit
>but it has six tables for mtg
>75% of the rpg section is occupied by d&d and pathfinder
My local store is shit. Maybe I'd care about it if I played MtG, but I don't.
These days I just buy everything online anyway.

>>54204908
Lights highlight the table, therefore the models not the man beast playing them.
>Cafe Mox is a rad place to play.

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>Trying to buy a game
>Musicians are in the way

>>54205210
lol the Double Clicks.
Good for them being able to play at PAX tho in a massive theater not many people can clam the same.

>>54205210
>Wanting access to the GW stand
Plebian.

>>54199766
My store had rock solid inventory management before they upgraded to a bigger venue, and a large fraction of the netted space went purely to tables.

>>54205466
Isn't basic CRM the soul of any good store

>>54205487
The other stores in my area have terrible automation and organization, especially when it comes to their web pages.

>>54199766
That depends utterly on poor, centralized management.
You can have a place with hundreds of tables, so long as it has a central menu and multiple workstations with multiple chief chefs.
What you are talking about is failure in the name of seeking out a higher profit margin, not a peril of expansion.

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I am very fortunate to have a great FLGS, see picture.

since they have table space i make sure to buy from the store regularly instead of online.

>>54199792
couldnt agree more. like.... if i dont game there, why would i buy a game there? maybe they are attracting the facebook normies who drool over stuff like transformer movies.

>>54205069
>but it has an entire section for manga and weeb stuf
>but it has an entire section for lego
>but it has tons of stupid collector bullshit
not intrinsically bad but i understand your gripe
>75% of the rpg section is occupied by d&d and pathfinder
thats pretty bad.

>>54205505
>thinks CRM is automation and organization
At least for my understanding the main goals are
1)Keep the clients
2)Get new clients
3)make saide clients more profitable
In that order of importance.

Most stores that fail simply can not into the first step.

>>54200070
Numerous other games require large gaming tables. The shop in OP's pic literally just had three card tables.

>>54205640
Organization is the one of the main points of CRM. Automation is a factor that plays into this. I.e. you have a crm, and it integrates with some other application that deals with automating emails or how this info is stored or what have you.

A CRM is a tool that you use to accomplish those three goals.

>>54205210

For a sec I thought the chick on the right had a goatee

>>54205210
what store in santa clara is this?

lol why arent you going to game kastle

I'm so jealous of you people. My local store has a notoriously unhelpful and unfriendly staff, and half the space is taken up by video games. The nearest store with events for anything but Magic, X-Wing, or Heroclix is two hours away.

>>54205610

That store's electricity bill must be absurd for an FLGS. I hope they get a shitload of business.

>>54205736
Very weird seeing my local store show up on /tg/ since i live in buttfuck nowhere canada. It has gotten better as they bought the building next door and broke down the wall, still mainly a magic store though. Other stores in town have wargaming stuff.

>>54204752
>>54204908
If it weren't for the liberal cuck clientele, these would be good places to play.

>>54209494
Maybe if you didn't make your politics your entire identity or bring them up while playing games you'd have a better life.

>>54205210
Two bards block your path from the goods you desire!

>>54210934
I think that's exactly what the dude was complaining about.

>>54199568
I once ate at an Olive Garden that looks like a warehouse from the outside. 200 tables? Dunno, but probably close to it.

Good food? That's a different question entirely.

>>54205069
Store doesn't even have any wargaming tables
Stores that lack tables are defacto not welcoming to table top players.

MtG players are a plague, but one local store run tournaments that pay the bills, RPGs and minis ride free

The RPG section is going to be D&D and Pathfinder as they are the gorillas. In minis its Warhammer and FoW. Like it or not, money talks, as do numbers. We have some 30 W40k players spending $100 each a month, but MtG spend that in a weekend tourney!

I support the FLGS because the provide a place to play, a place to meet other players and a place to hang with people who think in hit points, ranges and know the differences in scales.

>>54210934
it's never the right-wingers that try to engage you in conversations about the politics

>>54211684

Can confirm. I'm as right as the day is long, and I actively avoid discussing politics.

>>54211684
>>54211825
Literally the only people I've met to throw out politics in game stores have been alt-reich retards.

We're literally on a board right now where almost every single thread has at least one or two guys infusing posts with right-wing shit.

The first mention of politics was literally a right-wing complain about the left-wing.

>>54211872
>We're literally on a board right now where almost every single thread has at least one or two guys infusing posts with right-wing shit.
>The first mention of politics was literally a right-wing complain about the left-wing.

Selection bias. I mostly notice retards spewing 'muh pol' bogyeman shit every time anyone brings a non-left point of view. I just remind myself that this is because things that I consider merely non-left a leftist would see a 'right-wing shit' and you are a confirmation of that hypothesis.

Anyway, in western urban WA where the stores in question are you'd be hardpressed to find a right-winger playing magic -- much less one who is willing to risk a shitstorm by talking about his views. I have people trying to engage me in rant conversations about Trump on several occasions though.

>>54211971
Whatever you say, dude. Again, the first mention of politics was "meh aren't le sjw leftist cucks so, like, annoying?"

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>>54211872
>alt-reich retards

atleast try to hide it.

>>54200819
>you will be more than "just another costumer" in the eyes of the folks working there, and your input matters

I'm not sure whats more depressing, the fact you believe this or the fact it's hopelessly untrue

you are a pinata full of money

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>>54204752

TFW I am in this picture.

>>54212015
Hide what? I'm not hiding anything. I think people on the alt-right are retarded. I'm not even trying to be a "le golden middle" type dude. I prefer SJWs to alt-righters in every sense of the word.

You're using that comic panel wrong, anon.

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Heretic Games, San Bruno. FLY ASS STORE MY NIGGAS

>>54212134
By this logic you would agree that Bernie Sanders is more intelligent than Donald Trump

>>54212152
shhh, don't rustle, if you spook it they start screeching and flinging poo

>>54212050
going to the prerelease this weekend?

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>>54212073

>>54205860
never been inside game kastle, how is it?

>>54212189
I work in construction, anon.

My former LGS has reached the point where the only /tg/ related stuff they sell at all is some magic cards behind the register. They only sell used movies and games, and have a massive counter for piercings where the wargaming stuff used to be.

>>54212208
sure you do

>>54199612
Thats no game store anon
Its a whale trap

>>54200070
This may amaze you, but most if not all /tg/ related games take tables to play on.

>>54212239
that sucks that you ran out of comics after only 2 posts, now you'll have to actually think to reply

>>54212152
not the highest of bars

>>54211971
I've just gotten into tabletop shit so I'm new to browsing this board and it's kind of baffling just how frequently I'm seeing threads with people infusing childish /pol/ nonsense into whatever the topic is, no matter how forced.

I don't play this stuff to be reminded by dipshits about how dumb they think other political views are. It's an escape from this life into another one where today's whiny politics don't exist. I'll even tolerate a fascist if he just shuts up about it and plays the game.

>>54212152
He's like 4 years older and 50 times less successful.

>>54212152

OP here. I don't necessarily think this meme is indicating MORE OLDER = MORE SMARTER, but rather is mocking the general attitude of disdain for older "dinosaurs", nahmeen?

>>54212470
>50 times less successful

Are we measuring '# of times gone bankrupt' as a metric of success? if so I agree

>>54212481
>BACK PEDALING INTENSIFIES

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>>54212481

You're right anon. I meant purely by the meme that anyone even a year older than you is superior to you in every way.

>>54212481
And I'm taking the piss out of it because it's a stupid troll comic

>>54212492
Trump has never personally gone bankrupt though, only a few of his hundred+ companies have. His success rate of new businesses is in the 90% range, which is a pretty rare accomplishment.

Not even a Trump supporter, you blind rhetorists are the reason we lost.

>>54212539
>you blind rhetorists are the reason we lost.

No that would be Hillary Raw-Damn Clinton and the incredibly clumsy and hamfisted way she rigged the DMC then outright ignored swing states because she thought she had them in the bag, letting Trump blow her out of the fucking water in Electoral votes due to her ego.

I will remind you the Republicans hated Trump just as much until it seemed they had no fucking choice and even then they nearly had a civil war over it, but mutually decided the reptile-woman was their greater enemy.

>>54212560
You don't get it senpai.

The right *likes* arguing with people like you. You made us look like ivory tower retards.

>le orange man bankrupt

They literally formulated ways to best argue with you people for fun, you're probably in a facebook screengrab with a "look at this libtard" over it.

>>54204752
>Geeve the man hees fucking munay

>>54205210
>Tips Doubled
Fuck that place.

>>54212615
Explain this to a non-American please. I assume the store matches whatever you give the workers in tips, but what's the issue with that?

>>54212443
There is no escape. Unless you play the abstract stuff someone's political views are dominating the landscape. If we're talking rpgs it's in the small details of setting - the existence of cultural gender roles, the inheritance laws, the marriage law, whether magical talent is inherited, stuff like that.

>>54212726
People like to whine

>>54212736
Stuff like that at least has other excuses though. Settings are often based on easy to write, well known genres/concepts, along with the easy excuse that in stuff set in, for example, generic fantasy past that's just how the times were in our equivalent of that time period.

Even if there's an underlying political reason all I want is to not have modern bullshit waved in my face, which isn't hard. There's a difference between a fantasy society having set gender roles and making up a city state being raided by orcs with a paper-thin strawman population calling you racist for thinking the orcs should be driven out.

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>>54212282
>dude complains that liberals are insufferable at a couple of venues
>SJW enters thread and proceeds to inject their politics and act like an insufferable faggot

pottery

>>54212879
>/pol/ types wander into thread whining about non-/pol/ types and then blames the non-/pol/ types for ruining the thread when they started this shit
god you people are cancerous

>>54212736
>There is no escape. Unless you play the abstract stuff someone's political views are dominating the landscape.

The "everything is political" trope withers under scrutiny.

>>54212946
Even your statement right there is essentially political. All human interactions have a political element to them, just like all speech has a linguistic element. You can't escape it. The moment you interact with the social fabric, you are acting in a political framework.

>>54212879
>dude injects politics into an apolitical thread to complain about people injecting politics
>gets mad when called out on injecting politics

>>54212990
It's literally not. Everyone who posts regularly there is instantly reviled and smelled out for the useful idiot they are. It's not even the fastest board, and you want to try to claim it has a good reputation? Fuck off. Always derailing shit to spaz about the latest hook you've swallowed from your incompetent masters.

>>54212206
Not the person you were responding to, but I wasn't blown away. That might just be because I'm a lot closer to Isle of Gamers though

>>54212990
Is it because there's a lot of white nationalist Nazis are afraid of spouting their views openly in public because they realize the idea of "white supremacy" is funny coming from a bunch of overweight neckbeard wearin' virgins?

>>54212990
ouch what a clever comic, you've surely defeated me. Who'd have thought just calling the people you don't like a bad name was the key this whole time

>>54212810
>There's a difference between a fantasy society having set gender roles and making up a city state being raided by orcs with a paper-thin strawman population calling you racist for thinking the orcs should be driven out.

Sure, there is. But then there is no indication where the line of 'waved in the face' is. For you the set gender roles is OK, for someone else enforcing them is sexism. There are people who think that anything south of 'every society in the setting is 100% culturally accepting of every sexuality race and religion' is dm being a nazi. There are others yet who think that all fantasy species should be intolerant to others by default because that's the only thing that makes sense in absense of fast transportation, free dissemination of information and centuries of trade.

The point is: every time you play someone's political views are being promoted. There is no escape, either your group is a hivemind or someone is oppressed.

>>54199568
Is that a FATAL book on the right side?

>>54212984
>All human interactions have a political element to them, just like all speech has a linguistic element.
>The moment you interact with the social fabric, you are acting in a political framework.

Ahh, this anon gets it. It's so nostalgic, our politology prof. started our first seminar in Uni with basically this. We mostly ignored him because fucking politology for CS students, who has time for that shit -- yet the fucker was right.

My FLGS is usually full when i go there... and its kind of intimidating, everyone knows each other, everyone is playing a game pretty intensely and don't want to speak to anyone else.

The staff are friendly, but as someone shy as myself, breaking into such an established clique feels impossible.

>>54213151
>There is no escape

The escape is when any sort of political baggage is utterly transparent. As long as no one is thinking about it, all is well.

>>54213015
I know more and more blatant racists my age than ever before.

It usually comes out when somebody starts espousing opinions like yours and people start speaking up. We, again, aren't outwardly political all the time so leftists always assume they are in good company.

t. Hispanic crypto-fascist.

>>54212726
Certain people (especially /ck/) are very butthurt about tipping in general

>>54213593
>Hispanic Fascist

just say "Spaniard"

given the political upheaval in that country since you lost monarchy, hard to blame you

>>54212726
A lot of back staff (cooks, roadies) usually get paid a lot less than performers and wait staff despite doing literally the majority of the work.

It's especially weird in states where all employees HAVE to be paid hourly minimum so waiters and delivery drivers can make 40-60k a year. What's funny is they could just quit cooking, clean up a bit, and make a killing waiting but they like drinking all day in a 100 degree kitchen.

>>54213608
I'm American hispanic so I'm a shitskin.

>>54212206
its awesome, especially if you are a minis guy. they have tons of tables and terrain to use. Santa clara and mountain view at least.
also good for boardgames too since there are tables.

>>54213010
Fair enough, you must not be a minis guy. because it rocks for that with terrain and tables.

>>54212990

Sorry dude, /v/ is more popular. Keep the head up your ass though, the gaping boypussy suits you.

>>54213191

People probably aren't going to snub you for showing up, so just show up for the game of your choice if there's open tournaments. Talk to your opponent and I'm sure it'll work out.

>>54212990
>4CHAN IS /POL/ SAFESPACE

>>54213593
Why the fuck would you want to be fascist and racist?

>>54199922

The irony is 1 'fake geek' is worth ten of the supposed 'true geeks tm'.

You know the difference? The 'fake geeks' actually buy things like those t-shirts and collectibles therefore supporting the hobby, community and the local stores. They then share what they do in a relatable and interesting way online and we actually see hobby growth as people realise they can enjoy this too.

Meanwhile the 'true geeks tm' order all their discounted shit online and don't bother supporting their local store beyond whatever token fee they charge to hire out those tables. They then create insular groups that actively hate on outsiders and make those very game stores a toxic environment to go inside. Then whine when the store won't cater to them anymore and blame some other group rather than realising they've been the cancer all along.

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>>54216164

>>54211825
Probably because no one takes your stuttering "W-we must ensure a future for..." bullshit seriously outside of your internet circlejerks

>>54217637
He's Right You Know

Like it or not "fake geeks" spend money, and thus are the superior clientele to cater towards.

Try as I might to buy a pack of cards or some dice or something when I occupy my LGS's tables, I know that when I'm making a big purchase of models or something they can fuck off if they think I'm paying full MSRP.

>>54213593
You could have just said t. self-destructive retard. I'm sure /pol/ will accept you just because you're racist

>>54213593
>I'm a racist idiot that surrounds himself with other racist idiots

Sure, keep thinking that you're "on the rise" or whatever

>this fucking thread
I'm sure OP bailed out long ago but my flgs is quite shite, only MTG and 40k and the people playing it are lads that know each other from ages and just seem to use that place as a playground. Not that they are bad or exclusive but when playing sure it feels like "the outsider challenging the local sheriff". Also he staff just keeps talking with them and leave people to their own devices mostly until you go to the counter to pay when they quickly appear, finish the transaction and go back to talk or whatever the fuck they were doing before.
Could be worse but this second class client vibe really puts me off and people barely buy there so I guess it's maintained economically by the core guys that spend all day there.

Rather than a game shop i think i'd rather go in the cafe direction, food is an easier purchase for people to rationalise than a $50 model, have a library of games, and run events, appeal to the /v/ audience by having LAN parties and TVs showing tournaments.

Have your own league, maybe hook up with other local places for an inter-store league.

>>54204752
>>54204908
>>54205610

Holy fuck man. I'm used to dense bookshelves in rooms with yellowed lighting and decor not updated since the early 80s.

How cheap is the rent on these buildings that they can afford to operate on boardgame sales?

>>54213635
>they like drinking all day in a 100 degree kitchen.
You're supposed to be in front of the oven not inside it.

>>54219711
*Insert Jew Joke*

>>54219671
A bit of creativity and a trip to ikea can go a long way.

>>54212206

This >>54205610 is the game kastle in mountain view, it's pretty nice. Only problem is they don't have wifi.

>>54213010
I have not had a good experience with the people at Isle of Gamers.

>>54221303
>Only problem is they don't have wifi

This is a plus

>>54220600
>With this $100 bookshelf I not only doubled the square footage, but got a massive increase of natural light!

>>54221303
was it the people working at the store or the people at isle of gamers?

when i was there the store people were nice, but there were some "interesting" people playing the my little pony game.... wow they were annoying. i was not even playing with them nut they were a bit much.

>>54221911
Both, desu? The bronies are kind of annoying, but I can ignore them for the most part. I'm usually there to play MtG and I find the Isle just has the most annoying pool of players of any of the stores in the area (and that includes Channel, so that's saying something).

The clerk more or less introduced himself to me as a furry, so...yeah.

>>54220600

I don't think you quite get it. Some of these LGSs people have posted are in huge spaces, many tens of thousands of square feet. By way of an example, my FLGS is in a railway arch of about 1500sqft. One just up the road from them is available for £60000 a year (plus bills and taxes), some £40 a square foot. A space on the scale of >>54205610 round here would cost literally millions a year in rent and taxes.

>>54222567
Oh, i though they were mostly complaining about their FLGS looking shabby.

Closest thing i can think of here is "Mana Leak" in birmingham, which is in whats essentially an old factory/office unit in the queer part of town, outside the city centre where its cheaper.
If you can get a factory/warehouse unit and have an audience thats willing to go to an out of town location, you can have a ton of space for cheap. It's doubly true for Americans where land is cheap.

Retail is kind of ridiculous in bongland though, landlords demanding absurd rent and not giving a shit about their property because it's all part of some billionaires portfolio and don't even notice if it's in disrepair or empty.