Can a Gaming Cafe be Successful?

droidlev asks: "For years I've been toying around with the idea of opening up a medium sized gaming cafe in the Chicago suburbs. I have already taken care of the issue on how to make money during the day, when our younger market is in school, However, the question of whether or not a place like this can be successful, still remains. I've seen plenty of undermanned and poorly planned places in the area (and on the East Coast) like this go under in six months. What is your opinion? What ideas and thoughts do you have that could help a place, like the one I'm proposing, succeed? Do you have gaming cafes in your area that are successful? What unique techniques have they implemented?"

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Learn Visual Basic

[cyranoVR]

There are a ton of commercial utilities and add-ons for MS Access (check out Access Advisor at your local bookstore), but most of those are just VB apps or ActiveX controls that just do what you could do yourself with a little Visual Basic. Once you have got the basics down from some online tutorials, Access Cookbook by Kurt Getz is a great investment.

MS Access has a large community online, especially comp.databases.ms-access. Google is your friend - just about everything you'll ever want to do has already been done and has VB code examples online.

Here is a thread that has code demonstrating how to dump the contents of an Access database as DDL into text files:

comp.databases.ms-access: Exporting jet table metadata as text?

PS - If you are impatient with the limitations of VBA (aka "VB Classic"), there are Microsoft Office interop libraries that will let you automate Access Databases in .NET.

Re:Yes we have one.

[Anonymous Coward]

Normally *I'm* not a language troll, but... 'et cetera' has very little to do with french:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_cetera