When you install staff room pool tables, you give your employees a way to de-stress during breaks, keep them stimulated and alert, and encourage team morale through a spirit of friendly competition. Pool is the perfect game for this, with rules that most people already know well and a table size that suits any reasonably … Continued

The lighter nights of spring are coming and as we count down the days until the clocks go forward, it’s the ideal time to take a fresh look at pub fruit machines and quiz machines to keep patrons on-site once the sun goes down. In the UK we set the clocks forwards one hour on … Continued

Manco’s coin-operated pool tables and jukeboxes are a great way to raise money for charity by pledging to donate a percentage of the proceeds to a worthy cause. Around the start of the year, Red Nose Day is the big charity telethon to look out for – Comic Relief takes place every two years and … Continued

Club pool table hire can add an extra form of entertainment to your bar area, or even use a side room to create a dedicated pool room for use by patrons. There are a few factors to keep in mind though – here are five of the first things to think about when arranging club … Continued

Regular fruit machine maintenance helps to avoid costly downtime when you are unable to take customers’ stakes, but in recent years there have been several changes that might mean it’s time to update your fruit machine maintenance schedule. With the introduction of polymer banknotes, some pub fruit machines needed bringing up to date, they were … Continued

As we move into January, pub pool tables and quiz machines can be a great way to add something new to your pub for the new calendar year, while giving customers an extra reason to come and visit during the remaining weeks of winter. The new year can see a slump in pub patron numbers … Continued

A good hotel gives patrons somewhere comfortable to stay the night, but a great hotel gives them somewhere to stay in the daytime too, and this is where entertainment like coin-op pool tables, fruit machines and quiz machines can play a part. Most good-sized hotels have a dedicated bar area, or at least a bar-restaurant, … Continued

If you want your tills to be ringing like Santa’s sleigh bells, you need to start preparing for Christmas now. The shops have already started selling Christmas presents and decorations, and most people are looking forward to celebrating Christmas during the whole of December, not just the 25th. Here are some tips to help you … Continued

Pub pool tables are meant to make a profit while entertaining your customers – and Manco offer a number of pool table rental and profit-sharing arrangements to help you to maximise your take. But sometimes it’s good to give something back too, and Manco are proud to do our part to support charities when we … Continued

The row over lower FOBT stakes continues – this time not over the proposed £2 maximum stake, but instead over when the government should implement this change.   Work to introduce a maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals, better known as FOBTs, has been going on for months.   Jeremy Wright, secretary of state for … Continued