Meeple Professionals brings the friendly local gaming store feeling to major cities by assisting taverns, bars, cafes, and restaurants with unique tabletop game events! Taking the games on location, managing the event, and encouraging a positive environment increases traffic during slower periods in these venues. We have a unique and alternative business model that provides entertainment for customers and increased revenue for the venues at a reasonable, value-filled cost. Our model lowers everyone’s overhead expenses, making these events a highly cost-effective way to bring a library of games in-house without the hassle of maintaining it.
In addition, we offer a way to purchase the games at these events from our website via QR code at the event. This allows for immediate and impulse purchases of games attendees play without the venue needing the infrastructure to manage stock, sales, and other logistics.
Our History
It started during during the COVID-19 pandemic. The founders, Rowan and Will missed the days where the board game shop was a community of people hanging out and getting to know each other. We wanted a space where folks could trying new things and get excited with other people who loved what they did. The real friendly local gaming store experience. Organizing in person wasn’t really an option so we started gathering more folks together online. We were local, but because of the circumstances separated.
This all came to a head in 2022. The world was still reopening it’s doors from the pandemic and we all needed to get out of the house. Bars, restaurants, and cafes were still hurting. The pandemic had shuttered many, but their busy times were still less then normal, which made their “dead time” even more painful. This is when we decided to fulfill a childhood dream of ours. We wanted to take over a restaurant, order a bunch of food and play games with people and during the pandemic we had found just the right group of people.
So that’s what we did. Since mid 2022 we have been hosting board and card game events at venues around the city. We work with our community to create events that are fun to be at not just to fill a space. We do this by creating mutually beneficial partnerships with our venues who supply great food, drinks, and atmosphere and our dedicated community members who want to support local business. We’re together online and in person. We hope you join our community and become part of the Meeple Professionals experience yourself. You can find us on this site or on our discord at https://meeple.pro/discord.