Starting a LAN Gaming Centre?

A not-s- Anonymous Coward asks: "I've been given the opportunity to pitch a group of investors to open a LAN gaming centre (or centres, depending on how things go). These centres will be opening in an area that has little to no high-speed net access (and will be unlikely to in the future), very cheap equipment and labour, and a good core of 300-400K potential customers (right age groups, well-developed gaming culture, and plenty of disposable income). Anyone have any experience running a gaming centre, or any ideas of potential gotchas? We have written up the proposals and plans including the standard things (PCs, networking equipment, servers, furniture, fixtures, techs, games, etc), but were wondering if the community has anything to contribute? Oh, and there are none of these centres where we are planning on opening them..."

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Hi Slashdot:

[Anonymous Coward]

I just got a new job. I'm really nervous about it, and I'm also new to the internet. Some of my friends recommended google to me, but I can barely form a grammatically correct sentence, so that hasn't been much help.

Help me do my job please!

Idea destined to fail

[Green Light]

Pardon my pessimism, but you will never get enough geeks in the door to pay the bills. This plan is doomed to failure, so I suggest an alternative: just send all of the investors' money directly to me. The result will be just the same, in that they will lose all of their money. This way, they will be helping my kids to eat!