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Geek Retreat
Geek Retreat is a chain of franchised combined shops and board game cafés in the United Kingdom. The venues offer food, drink, and have various items for sale, while also providing a space to play board games, console games and trading card games. The venues also hold regular events. History The company opened its first venue in Glasgow in 2013. Its second venue opened the following year in Newcastle upon Tyne. It joined the British Franchise Association in 2021. In June 2021, it had 27 venues. In late 2022, as part of a program of streamlining the corporate entities within Geek Retreat Group, one of the sub companies within the group was put into liquidation. This process had no effect on trading or the wider group. In June 2022, the Attack of the 50ft Nerds Podcast began to perform their shows monthly out of the Warrington venue, with one show in the Liverpool venue taking place in November 2022. Business model The individual venues are franchised. Entry is free and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Game Café
A board game café is a type of café in which patrons play board and card games while being served food and drink. Customers usually pay an entry fee or rent a table in order to access a large library of games and instruction from the staff on how to play them. Many board game cafés also sell the games. History Board game cafés seem to have begun in South Korea; in 2004, Seoul had 130 board game cafés. This was followed by many other large cities in East Asia, and by 2012 there were estimated to be more than 200 cafés in Beijing. Many of these cafés offered 24 hours of gaming, instructions from staff and free drinks for around 30 yuan. While it was not the first board game café in North America, Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, established in 2010, is often credited with proliferating the idea of board game cafés to various entrepreneurs in the city and the western world. These include Draughts in London, Thirsty Meeples in Oxford, the Tabletop Board Game Café in Clevelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartlepool
Hartlepool () is a seaside and port town in County Durham, England. It is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Borough of Hartlepool. With an estimated population of 90,123, it is the second-largest settlement in County Durham. Hartlepool is locally administrated by Hartlepool Borough Council, a unitary authority which also administrates outlying villages of Seaton Carew, Greatham, Hart Village, Dalton Piercy and Elwick. Hartlepool was founded in the 7th century, around the monastery of Hartlepool Abbey. The village grew in the Middle Ages and its harbour served as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. After a railway link from the north was established from the South Durham coal fields, an additional link from the south, in 1835, together with a new port, resulted in further expansion, with the new town of West Hartlepool. Industrialisation in northern England and the start of a shipbuilding industry in the later part of the 19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
