What exactly is a family entertainment center?
The term serves to designate an industry as a whole, as well as to define a specific segment within that industry. The FEC industry consists of for-profit leisure centers that range from 10,000 S.F. indoor children’s play centers to outdoor Fun Centers, large category-killer indoor family entertainment centers to multi-acre outdoor mega-centers, and encompasses centers that target families with children, teenagers and/or adults. The term “industry” didn’t really apply to the FEC market until about 1990. Before then most FECs were mainly outdoor miniature golf-anchored family Fun Centers. Today’s rapidly growing FEC industry now encompasses many new and different categories of centers in both outdoor and indoor configurations, including children’s entertainment centers (CECs), children’s edutainment centers (CEdCs), FECs, adult entertainment centers (AECs), and urban-based location-based entertainment (LBEs) centers. Although many pioneering and early generation indoor FECs, such as the
