The Bingo room of Galeries Laval is preparing to leave the basement of this downtown shopping center to elect home in a building that is full of street at the entrance to the village of Sainte-Rose.
Rebuilt in 2011 after being reduced to ashes during a fire that occurred eight years earlier, this building recognizable at its turret which gives the corner of the Boulevards Sainte-Rose and Labelle houses two civic addresses including the 300, boulevard Sainte-Rose where a dancer bar operated to the pandemic.
“We have been looking at for about two years for a 10,000 square feet building,” explains Benoît Bougie, a management co -spat that operates four bingo rooms in Laval, Montreal and Longueuil.
A page turns
With the upcoming move in the fall, a page turns into the little history of this Laval ground industry.
The main interested party recalls that it was about fifteen years ago, the company founded by his father Claude had bought the license held by Bingo Laval leaders when they put the key in the door. At the turn of the 2010s, the new owners then left the recreatheque to settle in Galeries Laval.
“We are getting closer to the North Shore,” says Benoît Bougie, who sees it as the opportunity to join a new population basin which has not been served since the bingo closed in Ste-Thérèse.
However, the company had to untie the stock market cords, the acquisition of the building, the reconfiguration of the interior spaces including the construction of a mezzanine of 1800 square feet and the development of the premises requiring an investment of more than $ 4 million.
$ 100 million in donations
Firmly anchored in the community, this Bingo room manager financially supports some 80 non -profit organizations (OBNL), 41 of which work in Laval.
“With our 4 rooms, we put 5 million in donations per year; It was nearly $ 100 million that have been given in 50 years, “said the secretary-family secretary of the family business proudly, while evoking the beginnings of this great adventure while dawn of the 1970s, the paternal Claude Bougie and the Marguilliers of the Saint-Édouard-de-Fabreville parish organized a first bingo in the basement of the church for good works.
Today, the company puts to work no less than 220 people.
Sharing mode
Once the cash prices have been given to the winners, all the income generated daily by the sale of booklets, bingo cards, shift tickets and half-, are poured into an account dedicated by room.
At the end of the month, the prize pool is shared with the beneficiary organizations duly accredited according to a formula predetermined by the Régie des alcohols, races and games in Quebec.
The holder of the Salle Manager is receiving 75 % on the first monthly income tranche of $ 25,000. This proportion increases to 55 % for the income tranche from $ 25,000 to 60,000, then to 45 % for excess sums.
In the end, the recipes are roughly shared Kif-Kif, sums up Mr. Bougie, who says count on “Video lottery devices, the Kinzo [un jeu en pari mutuel de Loto-Québec]the bar and the restoration to bring all the operations to life ”.
The business decision to invest in Sainte-Rose and move into a new building is part of the desire to renew and rejuvenate customers, which will necessarily have to go through the modernization of the Bingo industry finishes Benoît Bougie, which has pleaded for 10 years for access to electronic tablets in the rooms of the province.
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