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Tom’s Watch Bar Stopped Turning Tables and Built a $100 Million Business Around Fans Who Won’t Leave
The founders thought they were building an upscale diner. Then a Monday Night Football crowd refused to go home - and revealed a better business hiding in plain sight.
The Sports Bar Built for People Who Didn't Come Just for Sports
Miller's Ale House turned a Florida neighborhood tavern into a 112-location chain by making the game only half the attraction. The other half is a broad, value-minded menu designed to keep families, fans and after-work regulars at the same table.
Dave & Buster’s Is Really a Game Company With a Kitchen Attached
The burgers bring people to a table. The flashing midway, reloadable Power Cards and promise of one more game keep the economics moving. Inside a national eatertainment chain, play is the main course.
How a Wing Craving in Ohio Became America's Loudest Sports Bar
Two friends could not find a decent wing in Columbus in 1982, so they started frying their own. Four decades later the sauce list has a heat challenge, the sports bar has a takeout spinoff, and a third of the orders never sit down.
Andretti Indoor Karting & Games
The racing surname is real, the karts hit real speed, and the business behind them is quietly turning empty afternoons into corporate team-building budgets - one 14-venue location at a time.
Twin Peaks Restaurants
How a Texas mountain-lodge sports bar turned cold beer, scratch kitchens, and franchisee ambition into one of the highest-grossing brands in casual dining.
Big Belly Hall Crams a Whole Night Out Under One South Bank Roof
An independent bar, rotating street-food traders, wall-to-wall screens and a signature comedy night — Big Belly Hall packs a full evening into a single South Bank room that holds 150 and starts at a £250 minimum spend.
Perry Gershon
Perry Gershon is the CEO of FTN (For The Numbers) Network, the fantasy-sports, sports-betting and DVOA data company he bought into and now leads. A Yale-trained molecular biophysicist who spent 25 years as a heavyweight commercial real estate lender, he opened one of New York City's first sports bars in 1987, then walked away from finance to run twice for Congress in New York's 1st District. In late 2023 he took the helm of FTN and led a $3M seed round, betting that the numbers behind sports are a business as much as a pastime.