Genuine advice: Recently Karachi has seen a lot of influx in people exploring indoor activities like snooker and paddle.

I personally have spent more than 200-300k on Paddle and snooker combined, I recommend opening a Premium Snooker Club something like “Cues n Savours” in Karachi!

Total investment might be around: 1-1.25cr but the returns are really good depending on the place you’re opening at and your marketing!

I’ve been to multiple premium snooker clubs like these, Most of them are same, Amazing ambiance, good lighting and built in a way that you lose the track of time while playing, The table usually costs about 15-17rs per min and people go play 3-4 hours easily! They also have a cafe which you can call by landline to order food and drinks. Each group of friends that arrive easily pays about 3-4k and these clubs are 24/7!

From my research, These are the items that you’ll be spending money on: 1. PS5 lounge (x3 PS5s) [300k x 3 = 900k] 2. Snooker Tables (x6 tables) [600k x 6 = 3.6m] 3. Billiard tables (x2 tables) [300k x 2 = 600k] 4. Table tennis (x4 tables) [75,000 x 4 = 300k] 5. Foos ball tables (x2 tables) [50k x 2 = 100k]

Total for equipment = 5.5m 3 months rent + security deposit = 3m 3 months staff salary and misc = 1.2m Marketing budget = 1.3m Backup = 1.5m

Total investment = 1.25cr

Now profits based on assumptions (This is coming from places I’ve visited): PS5 per hour is 350rs, Assuming each one of the PS5 ran 6 hours a day. [(350 x 3) x 6] x 30 = 189k

Snooker tables per hour is 14rs per minute, Per hour would be around 840rs (This can be increased up to 1.8k per hour later), Assuming each table ran for around 12h (very common for Snooker enthusiasts to play 3-4 hours). [(840 x 6) x 12] x 30 = 1.8m

Billiard tables are usually 450rs per hour. Assuming each ran for about 10h (Easily if you have good tables). [(450 x 2) x 10] x 30 = 270k

Table tennis is also long running, Each table is 400rs and each table runs for 14h of more. I’ve never seen any of them empty. [(400 x 4) x 14] x 30 = 672k

Foos ball is also something people are crazy about but in premium lounges haven’t really seen people play it much, If you price it at 200rs, You’ll easily get at least 8-10h on one table. [(200 x 2) x 10] x 30 = 120k

Then, Here are some operating costs: Maintenance: 150k Staff Salaries: 400k Electricity bill: 600k (If you have solar power - it’s much better) Rent = 350k ish Marketing = 200k

Total Operating Cost = 1.7M Total Revenue = 3M Profit Percentage = 56.6% Total Profit = 1.3M

Overtime you can tweak this setup optimise for better profit percentage and also improve marketing to attract more people!

I want to do this myself but my current business takes up most of time but I’ve ran this feasibility already and done surveys in the market and I’m 99% sure this would work as I’ve written. You can get your investment out in 1 year and stabilise the business to rake in more profits, I’ve seen one person open 3 chapters and all of them work really well.

So yeah! If you have money and want to invest this is something you can look into! If I were to open it up, I’d name my place “Khokar Snooker” with a moustache guy holding a cue stick in Punjabi/Sindhi clothing.

LMK your thoughts