Timm Metivier of Meepleville (both a board game cafe and a channel for board game content) jumps on the podcast to tell us all about the world of running a nin-person social business...when everyone's social distancing. Here are everyone's topics for this episode:
- Timm (guest): What are the top three games we're dying to play? (2:48)
- Shoe (producer) and Christina (host): How do you discover the games you want to play or order for a board game cafe? What is it like running a cafe during COVID? (We kinda got our topics mixed up and jumbled together.) (16:12)
- Mike (editor): What does the board game cafe business model look like, between cover fees, rentals, sales, food and beverage, etc.? (37:00)
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Here are the games covered on the show:
Timm’s topic: The top three games we can’t wait to get to the table
- Food Chain Magnate
- Trickerion
- Pax Porfiriana
- Telestrations: Upside Drawn
- Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
- Tzok’in: The Mayan Calendar
- Teotihuacan: City of Gods
- Master Word
- Anachrony
- Barrage
- The Gallerist
- City of the Big Shoulders
- 18XX
- Escape Plan
- Vinhos
- On Mars
- Viscounts of the West Kingdom
- Sleeping Gods
Shoe’s/Christina’s topic: Running a board game cafe during COVID + how we discover games
- Bridge
- Pinochle
- Backgammon
- Catan
- Ticket to Ride
- Life
- Connect Four
- Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
- Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion
- Pendulum
- Trois
- Ginkgopolis
Mike’s topic: What does a board game cafe’s business model look like?
- Cards Against Humanity
- Monopoly
- Sorry
- Risk
- Ticket to Ride
- Pandemic
- Battleship
- Lorenzo il Magnifico
- Hansa Teutonica
Final thoughts:
- Fingabol
- Crokinole