{"id":3354,"date":"2010-10-21T17:48:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:48:51","slug":"marios-goes-from-boom-to-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/marios-goes-from-boom-to-bust","title":{"rendered":"Mario&#8217;s Goes From Boom To Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a bumper start to 2010, Mario&#8217;s Bowling and Family Entertainment  Palace saw business slip from &#8220;steady&#8221; to a &#8220;colossal loss&#8221; in  September, its owner pointing to a 30-40 per cent business volume  decline while expressing confidence that the firm &#8220;has not scratched the  surface&#8221; of its potential market.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;steep&#8221; decline in customer volume in recent months has encouraged  former MP and Cabinet Minister, Leslie Miller, to focus more heavily on  marketing what the 50-lane bowling alley has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Miller said he put the downturn in September and beyond to the return  of students &#8211; the majority of the $14 million centre&#8217;s clientele &#8211; to  school, and the continually poor shape of the economy, but added that he  was hoping for a &#8220;super December&#8221; for the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Miller says it is a  &#8220;a constant headache trying to generate what we&#8217;ve got to generate to break even&#8221; at his Mario&#8217;s Bowling and Family Entertainment Palace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}