{"id":24052,"date":"2019-04-04T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=24052"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:34:00","slug":"dave-busters-sees-promise-in-virtual-reality-games-pared-down-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=24052","title":{"rendered":"DAVE &#038; BUSTER\u2019S SEES PROMISE IN VIRTUAL REALITY GAMES, PARED-DOWN MENU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A virtual-reality gaming platform coupled with a simplified, upgraded menu appears to be giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com\/financing\/dave-busters-still-cant-hit-comps-jackpot\">Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s<\/a> the boost the eatertainment chain has been searching for.<\/p>\n<p>After ending 2018 on a weak note, the Dallas-based brand reported same-store sales growth of 2.9% for the quarter ended Feb. 3. Revenue climbed 8.8%, to $331.8 million, during the period.<\/p>\n<p>The company will roll out a fourth immersive game, based on the \u201cMen in Black\u201d movie series, in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the strength of our VR offering in early 2019, we implemented a price increase on our VR games in just over half of our stores,\u201d CEO Brian Jenkins said Tuesday during a call with analysts.<\/p>\n<p>See the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com\/operations\/dave-busters-sees-promise-virtual-reality-games-pared-down-menu\">here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com\/operations\/dave-busters-sees-promise-virtual-reality-games-pared-down-menu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A virtual-reality gaming platform coupled with a simplified, upgraded menu appears to be giving Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s the boost the eatertainment chain has been searching for. After ending 2018 on a weak note, the Dallas-based brand reported same-store sales growth of 2.9% for the quarter ended Feb. 3. Revenue climbed 8.8%, to $331.8 million, during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-3d-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24053,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052\/revisions\/24053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}