Picture the scene. You are thinking of asking your perfect man / woman out on your very first ever date. You realise that your whole future life together – house, marriage, kids etc rests on this first romantic encounter. You then realise “maybe I’m getting a bit ahead of myself…
I’d like to tell you a story. 10 weeks ago, I was the Managing Director of a £10m business where I’d worked for 11 years and had over 250 staff. Today, I have no staff, and I spent the morning cleaning a prison toilet. Now to be fair, that was…
Its great to be the new guys in Southampton! One of the many lovely things about being a start-up in something new like the Escape Room industry is that we’re considered a bit different and a bit interesting. We’ve been contacted by several journalists who are curious about Escape Rooms…
Escaping for fun My brother and I started this business for many different reasons but having fun at work was high up the list. Peter and I had done ‘grown up’ jobs for 25 years, him most recently as the MD of a Contact Centre business, me working all over the world…
So most of the painting, hammering and building is now complete (for the first two rooms anyway). The website is live, the shop sign says “Please come in, we are OPEN” (as the dorky video of me posted last week attests). The booking system is live and we have had…
We are about three weeks into the build proper now and its going well. We have two sets of escapes rooms to build, the reception, a control room and utility room all before we have our first testers on site starting the 31st October. It’s going to be tight, but…
We ran a post on our Facebook page last week and got over 50 people volunteering themselves to test our new rooms which was fantastic. We also hit 500 Likes which really gives us a lot of confidence there is a real appetite out there for these experiences. We’re doing…
Today was a great day. Its taken a few months of work with solicitors, chartered surveyors, planning officers and bank, but it was all worthwhile today when we got to pick up the keys!! I got to spend some time just going from room to room, building a MASSIVE to-do…
Hi. This is me, Dave Gale, on the left with my brother (and now business partner) Pete. We wanted to introduce ourselves here on our shiny new website, as we start off on our Exciting adventure. We’ve talked on and off for years about starting our own business, but finally…
