Escape Room Profitability as of 2020?

[HalloweenHaunter]

Hey Hauntworld Crew,

We are interested in bringing in 3-4 500-800sqft escape rooms to our location that would be open year-round in addition to our normal Halloween season. For those of you who currently operate escape rooms, I'd love some help answering these questions:

- How profitable have they been for the past 2-3 years?
- Have you seen an increase/decrease in interest?
- What does your customer base look like? Are there lots of repeat customers?
- What did your bookings look like (in a pre-covid world)? Sold out weekly, 50% full?
- How far in advance do customers tend to book?
- What percentage of customers are parties/large groups/corporate?
- How often do you change up your games/storylines?

[drfrightner]

- How profitable have they been for the past 2-3 years? YES
- Have you seen an increase/decrease in interest? INCREASE
- What does your customer base look like? Are there lots of repeat customers? YES ... don't overbuild the first year add new rooms as you go along
- What did your bookings look like (in a pre-covid world)? Sold out weekly, 50% full? its been up and down honestly one minute great next minute in the basement right now its not great october was incredible
- How far in advance do customers tend to book? week of
- What percentage of customers are parties/large groups/corporate? virtual zero right now because of covid no corporate parties at all
- How often do you change up your games/storylines? we always improve the rooms but total change not so much add new rooms is the key

[Eastaboga Manor]

What is a good start up cost for an Escape room... I there a place to get the ideas and concept from to get started?