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IALEI Manuals & Reports

IALEI is excited to announce that updating and editing all of our manuals to better meet your needs!


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REPORTS

13th State of the Industry Report
IALEI is dedicated to providing the industry with comprehensive information on all aspects of owning and operating a recreational facility. Various reports are available to help you with your existing business or for those who are just starting out. Topics include: facility characteristics, pricing policies and customer habits, income, expense and budgets, development trends for prospective operators and more.


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*The report is available in electronic PDF format only*



MANUALS

Revamped Games & Redemption Manual - Coming Soon!


Revised Safety & Best Practices Guidelines Manual 
This manual begins with an in depth review of Facility Management with topics ranging from injury and illness prevention to safety signage and everything in between. The second half of this must have manual is a best practice manual for family entertainment attractions such as, batting cages, climbing wall, go karts, laser tag, etc.

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Redesigned FEC Sales & Marketing Manual
Take a fresh look at your business with the help of the recently redesigned and updated FEC Sales & Marketing Manual.
 
Marketing is the foundation of your business. Make your company more money with the FEC Sales & Marketing Manual. You'll also receive the Cause Marketing Manual, which has been added to the back of this book. 
 
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Birthday Party Manual
This comprehensive manual is a blueprint for the operator who wants to be the best in birthday parties. From planning and logistics, to marketing and evaluation and including dozens of ideas for unique games and activities — this is a manual every operator will find invaluable in improving their birthday parties.

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Developers Handbook
An essential reference book for anyone developing a new entertainment center or doing extensive renovation. This handbook covers long range philosophy of the business, Market analysis/project viability, market penetration potential, site selection/site analysis, thematic considerations, financing, the Business Plan, operations and maintenance, and why FECs fail.


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Food Safety Challenge
A Guide for Your Food Service Operation – this colorfully illustrated booklet presents the essentials of safe food handling in a highly readable and easy to understand format. It provides basic information on food safety and is based on the 2001 Food Code and the supplement issues in 2003 developed by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, the most up-to-date food safety information available. By regularly following these fundamental steps, presented in an easy to understand question and answer format, you can protect your customers from foodborne illness.

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Grand Opening Magic For Laser Tag
A grand opening marketing manual for Laser Tag and other Entertainment Venues written by Jason Bock, The Laser Tag Guy. This comprehensive manual is packed with valuable information on marketing your Laser Tag facility and a comprehensive step by step process for a successful grand opening. Geared toward laser tag, it is nevertheless a valuable resource for any fun center . A must have for any facility planning a grand opening. Quantity discount available for 4 or more.

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Group Marketing for Laser Tag
This 170-page manual is a comprehensive guide to increasing group sales in a fun center. Focusing mainly on laser tag facilities, it is nevertheless, a valuable guide for fun centers of all types. Learn to tap into the huge variety of groups by identifying the ones that will be most productive for you, and the best approach to each in order build your group business. By following even some of the guidance and ideas in this book, you can build your off-peak attendance, develop repeat business and watch the results in your bottom line.

 

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Guidelines for Developing a Crisis Management Plan
A crisis situation can arise in many forms. It can be as obvious as a fatality on a ride, or as simple as a denial of admission. Years of hard work and goodwill to the public can be easily forgotten when disaster strikes, thus bringing the spotlight of media attention on your facility.
For this reason, every facility should be prepared with a Crisis Management Plan. This plan will provide a coherent way for management to tell its side of the story and, more importantly, preserve its image as a professional and caring organization.

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Guide to Creating an Operations Manual
This manual is a must-have for operators and managers of entertainment centers. It is a comprehensive guide available also on CD for you to use in customizing it for your unique operations. This manual is indispensable to any company without manuals, or a business just starting out...or as a tool for managers to help compare their own existing manuals to and see if something new should be implemented. The formats for each manual section are standardized to make it easy for managers to customize their own manuals.

 

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Orientation Manual
The hard work is done when you start with this sample Orientation Guide. You’ll fill in a few blanks and have your own custom Orientation Guide for your employees. It covers team goals, operations, policies and procedures, work regulations, rules of work, facility use, employee job performance, violation of rules/regulations/ procedures, facility appearance, sexual harassment, emergencies, injuries, time clock procedures, training, attendance policy, team member incentive program, job promotions, resignations, work schedule, plus more.

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Programming Downtime
This manual was produced by a collaboration of IALEI's Children's Entertainment Council and the Sales and Marketing Council. It has a wealth of ideas and specific how-to's for bringing guests and revenue to your fun center during typically slow times. This 60 page manual is crammed with ideas you can put to use immediately to improve your attendance and your bottom line.


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