We promise to never share your e-mail address and personal information with anyone. Any proprietor will tell you that league lineage itself doesn't generate the income to cover a bowling center's expenses. That's why the bar, the restaurant or snack bar, the game room, and other amenities become crucial to a center's survival. I'm not an enemy of snack bars, but given the prices and the quality of the food at the snack bars, I can always get a better deal that tastes better down the street. Years ago I bowled a handicap evening league, finishing around 10 or so every week.
Most houses do that now.
The money that they are willing to spend is lining the pockets of any number of sit-down restaurants that stay open. Denny's, Cocos, Friendly's, and many more national and regional restaurants come to mind. On the busy nights at the restaurant, a family puts their name on the waiting list to dine, and walks into the bowling center to kill time until their name is called. This is a family who may not have been to this center, and now they have walked into it. After the meal they might even consider bowling.