Focus On
Focus On: Alley Cats Bowling Alley
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Focus On Alley Cats Bowling Alley Warrensburg, Missouri!
Alley Cats Small Business that opened in Warrensburg Missouri. Revamped with a history of providing the love of bowling, competition, and fun to Warrensburg.
Focus On
Focus On: Alley Cats Bowling Alley
Clip | 6m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Alley Cats Small Business that opened in Warrensburg Missouri. Revamped with a history of providing the love of bowling, competition, and fun to Warrensburg.
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Welcome to Alex.
I'm one.
Of So I handle all the day to day operations.
I'm one of the owners with him.
I'm head mechanic.
I hide in the back and work on machin and help him drill in the pro shop.
As far.
Th at could serve, you.
Know, alco And we had always said that, you know, this is something that the community was missi We thought it would go really well.
This is the second.
Time it's been in our family.
It was my my dad's.
And she was the second to l She sold it in 89.
My parents over the years have made efforts to buy.
For other bowling alleys, something they had always wanted to And for some reason or another Know, things would always fall.
Through or i Happen.
An I pushed really hard to try.
And make this happen.
I would say We closed on the building two.
Days before Christmas We opened the doors August 18th, The concrete floors and the brick.
And the block walls.
There is there was Nothing on Struggle was just getting the doors open.
We tried to get contractors to do it.
They laughed.
They said Because we had to have it open for League started two weeks after Make it for the leagues or we were in some trouble.
It was it was.
Do or die for us.
But since.
We've opened.
Th a lot of our issues and struggles.
Have been, you know, St aff here that we can present.
The kind of products and.
Custo That, you know, we expect to be able to pu But also finding that sweet spot.
Where we're.
We spend so much time here and, you know, we lower staff so much.
At the end of the day, Th is isn't some big corporation.
This is just five of us, you know, And we truly.
Do w the best q for everybody.
Whenever they have a great time.
You know?
So the original.
Theme was actually supposed A. Graffiti tag that was Alley Cat.
And actually it was going to be.
More along.
Those lines.
We originally were going to go on neon colors and then, yeah, we tried to start color matching and found out neon doesn't go very well the other.
So we toned it down and kind of made it a little bit of a. Classier industrial.
I don't know, kind.
Of I think it actually turned out for the better this way.
S So on a normal day, I do a lot of the opening.
So like, you know, do once.
Over through the Facility, make sure everything's clean.
And then as I get, you know, some of Coming in around.
Open, I wi Going through leagues from the night before getting.
League's process, you know, making.
Sure if there's any.
Issues with deposi That's my general day to day.
It's a lot of.
Administra is what a.
Good portion o Day consis My day, I'm more of a mike person, so I usually get here a little later.
But when it comes to these machines, they're pretty temperamental Sometimes.
Than so I was here for like 40 hours now sleeping and, you know, just working So it honestly just depends on how they feel that day, what what's going to So a lot of maintenance that goes into them Do n't necessarily see.
So we've got the pool, we have the full.
Bar, the full kitchen.
You kn Do fresh in-house.
Pizzas.
We do a.
Lot of birthday par I'm we're And Christmas parties.
And.
Holiday parties.
We're doing a lot.
Of you know, stuff that.
We're working on.
So I think we're both really trying to start pushing more into the.
Get in more tournaments and hear.
Stuff like that.
And we just want to see competitive bowling.
We're competitive bowlers.
We both bowl So we're geared towards that.
We want to get as many tournament and as many people into the sport So that's a wonderful and beautiful thing abou Inclusive to everybody.
You know, any, you kn From your, you know, your.
18 month old.
To your 96 year And, you know, that's something we can all do togeth And it's a.
Very And it's very.
Unique in that aspect.
You know, there's there's Bad blood.
In the sport.
Like for.
I mean, obviously that happens, but.
For the most part, like everybody gets along Well and it just, you.
Know, we're trying to.
You know, delve into the Special Oly side of it and stuff like that.
So trying to g We have the ball.
Tracking sof That's something that.
Nobody around here.
Has.
Basically, you'd have to go into the city to get that.
That is something kind of unique.
So when it comes to the competitive bowling aspect side of it, we can really cater.
Peop we don't ever want to take away business.
From another center, right?
That's not The more centers we have, th e sport in the sport, the futu So you can call us 660.
Three six.
212, one two.
You can email us, contact or contact All of that information is on Google Online.
Contact us through our website.
I want people to have a go but when they come in, I want them to.
Remember.
They got excellent.
Cu Service and.
You know, they were greeted.
With a smile when they walked i And when they walke