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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Bowlmor AMF Corp. is the largest ten-pin bowling center operator in the world, with 340 centers the United States and eight centers in Mexico. The centers have an average of 40 lanes for both the Bowlmor and AMF brand locations compared to the U.S. bowling center average of 21 lanes.Bowlmor AMF’s US centers represent 8% of the country’s 4,400 bowling centers. Its nearest US competitors in size are Bowl-America, Bowl New England, Lucky Strike, and Main Event Entertainment, each with around 20 centers. Most of the other bowling centers in the United States are individually or family-owned.Bowlmor AMF currently operates the following bowling center brands:Bowlmor Lanes, which focus on group events and open bowling. There are currently 18 Bowlmor centers, 12 of which are former AMF centers. Bowlmor centers aim to provide “high-end” bowling in a modern lounge setting which includes audiovisual technology, such as plasma screens for automatic scoring and movie screens above the lanes, plus glow lighting, and glow-in-the-dark lanes. Bowlmor centers also have DJ booths, sports bars and video arcades, mini golf, bocce, table shuffleboard, ping pong tables, air hockey, billiards, and boardwalk games, private party facilities with catering services, and full service restaurants. The company claims the Bowlmor brand has a 35-50% return on equity.Bowlero centers, which focus on group events and open play but will also incorporate bowling league play. The Bowlero brand is envisioned as a "mid-tier" offering, in which a traditional bowling center has been renovated to create what the company calls a "hip, fun environment." In May 2014 the company opened its first Bowlero center in the renovated AMF Woodlands Lanes in The Woodlands, Texas, featuring "recreational games and inventive menu items set in an eclectic environment that’s full of nostalgic throwbacks." Two additional Bowlero centers opened in 2014, both in Texas, and both in former AMF centers. Note that the name "Bowlero" is not exclusive to Bowlmor AMF and that the Bowlero centers owned by others do not use Bowlmor AMF's Bowlero concept.AMF Bowling Centers in the United States and Mexico, which continue to operate as traditional bowling centers where bowling league play continues to play a significant role. Bowlmor AMF aims to increase open play and group events at these centers through the application of Bowlmor’s experience as well as increased marketing investment.The Brunswick Bowling Center brands, including Brunswick Bowling, Brunswick Zone, Brunswick Zone XL, and Brunswick's.In early 2014 the company closed around 20 AMF centers that had negative cash-flow. It is spending $32 million annually through 2018 to renovate the others and expects that, by 2018, around 25 of the AMF centers will have been converted to Bowlmor Lanes and around 60 of the AMF centers will have been converted to Bowlero centers."@en }

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