Solid Snake

Family Arcade Owner · San Diego, CA

solid@example.com (555) 214-6603 snake-arcade.example.com Barrio Logan, San Diego
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Redemption Ops Ticket Systems Cash Handling Party Booking Machine Repair Staff Training Kid Safety Vendor Deals
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I run a 42-cabinet family arcade in San Diego that I bought in 2016 and grew to $680K in yearly revenue. I fix roughly 15 machines a month myself, keep the floor at 96% uptime, and book about 240 birthday parties a year. I still lose at Skee-Ball to eight-year-olds on a regular basis.

Prize chart

Capsule colorWhat you win
Red
Redemption and floor operations: prize counter, ticket eaters, weekly inventory.
Blue
Point-of-sale and card systems: Embed reader setup, refunds, nightly reconciliation.
Purple
Cabinet repair: bill validators, monitor swaps, joystick and button rebuilds.
Orange
Team: hiring, scheduling 11 part-timers, safety and cash-drop training.
Green
Events: birthday packages, school fundraisers, group booking follow-up.

Turns of the dial

Owner & Operator

Coin Comet Family Arcade
2016 – Present
  • Bought the arcade with 22 cabinets and built it to 42, lifting yearly revenue from $310K to $680K over 9 years.
  • Hold 96% machine uptime by handling most repairs in-house, cutting the outside service bill to about $4,200 a year.
  • Run a 240-party-a-year birthday program that brings in roughly 31% of total sales.

Floor Manager

Tidewater Fun Center
2011 – 2016
  • Managed a 9-person shift crew across a 30-game floor and a $9K daily cash count.
  • Cut redemption prize shrinkage by 18% after rebuilding the counting and restock routine.

Repair Technician

Sunbelt Amusements (route service)
2008 – 2011
  • Serviced about 140 machines across 26 bars and pizza shops on a weekly route.
  • Kept average repair turnaround under 48 hours, logging every call in the route binder.

Prize Counter Attendant

Boardwalk Games Co.
2006 – 2008
  • Ran the redemption counter for a summer crowd of 900+ daily visitors with zero till shortages.

Certificates

ServSafe Manager San Diego County · renewed 2024
AAMA Amusement Machine Safety Course American Amusement Machine Assoc. · 2019
A.S. Electronics Technology San Diego City College · 2006

Bonus capsules

Skee-Ball repair Coin mech tuning LED marquee wiring Vendor haggling Spanish (fluent) Soldering Payroll
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