“So far it’s been an amazing company,” she said. Williams, who previously worked in the human services department at the Target store in Warwick, said she underwent a month’s intensive training in California, where Round 1 USA has two locations. But it also has its own exterior entrance with parking in the rear of the Galleria next to Regal Cinemas, the latter of which has recently undergone an extensive renovation. Taunton’s Round 1 Entertainment is located in 62,000-square-feet of ground-floor space accessible through an entrance inside the mall. and no one younger than 25 to be allowed in after midnight. In addition to a part-time and full-time staff of 60, Williams said the company has hired a private security team whose workers are instructed to check IDs and not allow anyone under the age of 18 to enter after 10 p.m. She said using glasses for beer is safer and will reduce the chance of someone trying to walk in with a concealed bottle. Williams said it’s not just a matter of presenting an amusement-center image that’s “a little more upscale” when it comes to bottles versus glasses. In addition to a snack bar, it also has license to sell beer, wine and sake at its in-house bar.īoth on-tap and bottled beer is served in glasses. Round 1 Entertainment also has the distinction of the longest hours of operation of any business in the dual-level mall, whose owners since 2013 have claimed to be investing as much as $5 million on infrastructure and other improvements.
“It’s a one-stop shop for entertainment,” said manager Melissa Williams. With 20 lanes of 10-pin bowling at least 400 flashy and interactive arcade games, eight regulation-size pool tables, ping pong tables, private karaoke rooms with five language choices, and darts, it would appear there’s something for just about anyone seeking a little escapism. The most recent of those is the Round 1 in the Silver City Galleria mall off of Route 140 in East Taunton. The amusement-chain corporation, which got its start in Japan in 1980, since 2009 has opened nine entertainment venues in the United States.
The fact that the business of bowling to an ever greater extent now depends on sharing space with “amusements,” such as sophisticated arcade games, was illustrated Saturday with the grand opening in Taunton of a massive, multi-faceted entertainment complex called Round 1 Entertainment. TAUNTON - Bowling may not be nearly as popular a pastime and sport as it was in the 1960s and ’70s, but it nonetheless remains a draw in Greater Taunton.
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