We recently went here for evening bowling. It was amazing! The staff was exemplary. From the moment…read morewe arrived until we left they were attentive and friendly. They gave us complimentary popcorn, registered us by phone and followed up with us twice to see if we were enjoying our experience. The manager, Wayne, introduced himself to us and had a card for my step sister whose birthday had been a few days before. The card included several free bowling tickets! Everyone that worked there was super attentive from Aliza, who manages sales to Wayne to the entire front of house staff. The space itself is clean and inviting and they even gave us a 10% discount on our game. Our evening was fantastic and the four of us have decided that we will go back monthly. Truly the best customer service. You won't be disappointed!

AMF Airport Lanes in Cheektowaga feels like someone took a perfectly serviceable neighborhood…read morebowling alley, handed it to a private-equity consultant, and asked, "How can we make this more expensive, less pleasant, and vaguely resemble an abandoned Dave & Buster's?" Bowling alleys used to be honest institutions. You entered a windowless building that smelled like lane oil, cigarettes absorbed during the Clinton administration, and fryer grease of uncertain provenance. You paid a reasonable amount of money, rented shoes last disinfected during the Carter administration, bought a pitcher of domestic beer, and bowled. Nobody demanded your email address. Nobody tried to enroll you in a "rewards experience." The scoring screen displayed your score instead of repeatedly suggesting that you purchase a mozzarella-based appetizer. Now the entire place radiates corporate enshittification. Everything has been "enhanced," "streamlined," and "reimagined," which means the lights are darker, the music is louder, the prices are higher, and there are fewer employees available to explain why your lane has stopped working. The bowling itself--the actual reason the building exists--feels almost incidental, like an inconvenient legacy feature that management has not yet figured out how to replace with a subscription. You can practically see the consultants' PowerPoint deck: convert community recreation into a "premium social entertainment experience"; replace straightforward pricing with packages; make every surface glow blue; rename ordinary food; extract the maximum possible revenue from each person before the lane malfunctions. A cheeseburger is no longer a cheeseburger. It is an "artisan lane-side dining experience," apparently assembled from the same Sysco ingredients but now priced like it received an undergraduate degree. And this is Airport Lanes in Cheektowaga--not a rooftop nightclub in Manhattan. I should not need to consult a financial adviser before taking two people bowling near Genesee Street. This is supposed to be the democratic beauty of bowling: a sport equally accessible to serious league bowlers, families with children, intoxicated coworkers, and people who throw the ball with both hands and somehow score 170. It should not feel like surge-priced recreation administered by an airport concessionaire. The saddest part is that the bones of the old bowling alley are still visible underneath all the corporate lacquer. You can sense that this was once a genuine local gathering place: leagues, birthday parties, cheap beer, elderly men with personalized balls, and regulars who knew exactly which lane had a slight pull to the left. That culture still exists, but now it has been trapped inside a glowing corporate shell designed to monetize "fun" in fifteen-minute increments. This is the lifecycle of everything now. A normal business develops a loyal customer base by providing a decent service at a fair price. A corporation acquires it, centralizes everything, fires or underpays the people who understood the place, raises prices, introduces an app, degrades the core product, and then acts bewildered when customers stop coming. Eventually, management announces another "bold transformation," which invariably involves fewer employees, more screens, and a new fee. I do not need AMF Airport Lanes to be an immersive entertainment destination. I need it to be a bowling alley. Turn on the lanes. Maintain the equipment. Charge a sane price. Serve cold beer and edible fried food. Let Cheektowaga bowl in peace. Not every human activity needs to be converted into a frictionless, data-driven revenue funnel managed from a corporate office in another state.

Let me start this off by saying... I DONT EVEN BOWL ! Lol spare time is just a great place with…read moreeven better food. The bar set up is very nice along with all the craft beers they have on tap, the staff is always friendly and attentive not to mention the cook is the best and the food is always delicious !

Went to bowl a few games on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It is a great place. It is clean, well-lit,…read moreand really nice and cozy inside. It has 12 alleys in it. I love it and will definitely be back.

Great, clean place for bowling. Good food, inexpensive drinks. You can reserve lanes online. Highly…read morerecommend!

Food good food atmosphere bowling just all around "Cheers" atmosphere service was great. Alot of…read morework done to this facility and more to come I guess in 2025

Had a great time bowling here for my birthday with my family. I was missing bowling and suggested…read morewe come here for open bowling on a Saturday. The people at the front desk were very nice and friendly. We were placed next to a kid party, but they didn't stay long, thank God, and we were able to bowl in a peaceful area. Someone from the front counter takes you to your lane. You have to go in one way through the alley, and leave another way, for safety reasons, which is good. While you make your way to the alley, there is an area to choose your bowling ball if you don't have one. You are given gloves to try them on before selecting one. Then you make your way to the alley. When you are done with the ball, you leave it on the lanes, and someone immediately came and cleaned the area and the ball. Very efficient and safe. There are plastic sheets hanging between each lane for COVID safety. Also, you can't go up to the bar or snack bar. There is a call button given to each party and you order from there. They have many menu offerings that sounded good and one day I'm going to have to order some bowling alley food.

Bowling is a great past time, winter activity or something fun to do inside when its cold or your…read morebored. My friend and I decided to go for open bowling. The prices were affordable and we both felt safe with their COVID procedures. The games were $3 each, and $3 for shoes. My friend didn't need shoes or a ball. I did though and was pleased with their process. COVID19 safety procedule: 1. The staff member asks for your shoe size; then your provided with disinfected shoes. 2. If you required a ball, a staff member provided you with a glove, and you were assisted till you found correct ball size. Everything balls, shoes were clean, and staff were friendly. Dividers were used between each lane to promote social distancing. Overall felt safe and would return again. I may be the worst bowler, but I do have a funny gutter ball dance.

I started bowling here when I was a teenager. I grew up in Williamsville New York and my friends…read moreand I would frequent here. I always got the prize for lowest score! lol Someone has to be on the bottom

I used to bowl here in high school and college, but hadn't been back in years. The lanes have since…read morebeen renovated and everything really looks nice on both the inside and outside. The bar also has a good selection of beers, as well as food. I would definitely come back here again to bowl and for a bite to eat and a drink.

Went to spare room with a bunch of friends! It was so much fun, food was amazing. Only thing I…read morewould keep in mind is that it's $60 a lane so I would suggest going with bigger groups! Would definitely go back!

Excellent atmosphere. Very intimate for a birthday party. The lanes were clean. We tried to get…read morefood/drink service at our table and no one came to help. That was the only d

Five star review for five star lanes. Cheap AF. Prolly won't be busy when you walk in, but that's a…read moregood thing. Only complaint is the smell of cheese outside.

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With all the craziness of CoVid going on in New York I wasn't sure AMF would be open…read more I called ahead to check( and missing the sound of Marys voice from our years of bowling when our oldest( who is 30 now)was 6) was answered by a man with no customer service skills stated they were open and it was first come first serve. We walked in and noticed a lot of open lanes, 2 customers in front of us and the man I spoke to on the phone trying to handle inputting their info. As we were next and I asked for a lane(one possibly not in the middle of people)I was cut off mid sentence and told "I'm letting you know you Will be in the middle of all those people" as he pointed to the left. I then finished my sentence saying "because my husband just had chemo and I was hoping we could be on the end". In the middle of my speaking he again said "No I'm letting you know you can't." Wow! No, sorry we're having tournaments or have reservations for parties or anything just continual snapping. I really wish Mary didn't retire-I'm sure she would never let an employee be so rude. (And yes I did call him a douche-usually I'm nicer but between me and my 2 sons he was rude so I felt it appropriate. I'm getting sick of people being rude to me all the time it's unacceptable!) Needless to say my husband stayed for about 20 minutes and left and me and the kids had a Great time anyway!

AMF Lancaster Lanes in Depew is a nearly perfect case study in corporate enshittification: the slow…read moreprocess by which a perfectly understandable neighborhood institution gets standardized, "reimagined," aggressively monetized, and transformed into a more expensive, less satisfying imitation of itself. First, the geography. It is called Lancaster Lanes, but it is in Depew, which is partly in Lancaster and partly in Cheektowaga, along that Transit Road continuum where municipal boundaries become theoretical and every location is described relative to a Tops, Tim Hortons, former Kmart, or restaurant that used to be something else. This is Western New York. We understand it. A national corporation never will. A bowling alley should be one of civilization's simplest institutions. You enter. There are lanes. You rent shoes. You bowl badly. You order beer and wings. One person who claims not to have bowled in fifteen years inexplicably scores 180. A child wanders into your approach. An elderly league bowler silently judges your technique. The model has worked for decades. It requires no disruption. But corporate America cannot encounter a functioning institution without asking how it might be made shittier through innovation. Someone looked at this bowling alley and did not see a community gathering place. He saw an "under-monetized location-based entertainment asset." He saw customers occupying space without being adequately extracted from. He saw people sharing one pitcher of beer and realized shareholder value was being destroyed. Thus, bowling becomes an "experience." The snack bar becomes "lane-side dining." Turning off the lights and activating ultraviolet fixtures becomes a premium event. A birthday becomes a tiered entertainment package. The website speaks like a Las Vegas nightclub, even though the destination is a cinder-block building in Depew surrounded by six months of accumulated parking-lot salt. Corporate enshittification always follows the same formula: cut staffing until one employee is doing four jobs, raise prices to fund none of those jobs, impose centralized systems that make simple decisions impossible, and use cheerful branding to suggest that deterioration is modernization. The employee working the desk, snack bar, birthday party, and lane malfunction simultaneously is not the problem. That employee is a hostage. You can end up trying to accomplish the ancient task of paying money to bowl while feeling like you are negotiating a telecommunications contract. How many people? How long? Shoes included? Did you reserve online? Is this a peak period? Would you like a package? Would you like to create an account? Would you like to receive promotional emails? No. I want to throw a fourteen-pound ball at ten pins. I do not want to establish a relationship with the bowling alley. I do not want an app, personalized offers, or an email tomorrow saying, "You left three pins standing, but your next visit could be a strike!" I want the anonymity once inherent in low-stakes public recreation. The food follows the same pattern. Bowling food should be gloriously unambitious: hot, salty, structurally stable, and edible with one hand between frames. Pizza, wings, fries, burgers, chicken fingers. Nobody needs a chef's vision. Nobody needs a drizzle. The snack bar should sell a cheeseburger called "Cheeseburger," not a "signature lane-side dining experience" assembled from the same ingredients but priced like it attended graduate school. This is Western New York. We know bar food. You cannot put twelve damp nachos in a miniature metal basket, add three adjectives to the menu description, and expect us to be dazzled. Then there is the lighting. Corporate entertainment executives apparently decided that visible carpeting and recognizable human faces are incompatible with fun. Therefore, everything must glow blue and purple while music videos flash above the pins at a volume that prevents conversation. Regular bowling is insufficiently monetizable, so they turn off the lights, activate fixtures purchased during the Black Eyed Peas era, call it "cosmic," and charge more for the same lane. Nothing says premium entertainment like being unable to see the finger holes in the ball. The saddest part is that a real neighborhood bowling alley remains trapped underneath all the corporate lacquer. League bowlers still arrive with bags resembling sensitive medical equipment. Families still bring children. Friends still insult each other's form. People still celebrate accidental strikes with wildly disproportionate enthusiasm. The community keeps trying to use the place as a community bowling alley while the corporation tries to convert it into a monetized entertainment ecosystem.

It isn't the main event at Kerns, but I ordered the Mac & cheese as a side because I don't eat meat…read moreand it was excellent. My friend had the onion rings, called onion rolls, and they were great. Also, the new carpeting is pure eye candy. Just glorious.

Hosted a comedy event on Easter Sunday, some of the comics were sexist, ablest, homophobic, ageist,…read moreand talking about Adam and Eve in the explicit. "S**king Adams b**ls" So blasphemous!!! No one was laughing.... Food is really good tho, I would recommend the cajun fries. There were also a few comics that were very funny! The music was a bit too loud unfortunately and there was not a wheelchair/walker accessible bathroom.

One thing about Dave & Busters is that you can depend on it to be open late. The food and drinks…read moreare okay and the game play is also decent. Overall I feel like this js someplace you'd come when you want to have a little late night fun bc you're not ready to go in the house yet.

A few weeks back we came here to celebrate my fathers birthday . The service was absolutely…read morehorrible. I'm not usually one to express a negative experience, but this was exactly that! Let me begin with we made a reservation. When we arrived the host was very nice. The table wasn't ready which is okay that normal can happen, but we had two small children in our party and they sat us at a Hightop table where the highchair didn't reach. We waited ... ready... 2 1/2 hours for our food. We seen mutuiple family come eat and leave before out r drinks where even out. We asked to speak to a manager twice and she never came. Not only that but we purchased cards to play games after lunch which turned into dinner and they weren't working. The only reason I gave 1 star is because the burger i personally had was good. It takes a lot to mess up a burger . After we all finally got our food items took another 30 min to get refills and mayo! I didn't even bother to ask for ketchup. I just walked over the the bar area and took it from a different table. After eating it's took ..... 30 more min for the check, and when I received it , it was wrong. I asked what they were going to take off for the inconvenience. Now we were a party of 10 so this wasn't a small bill by any means. The server looked me and said "take off for what." I took a deep breath and said for waiting 3 hours to eat on top of everything else. Long story short they took the sodas off the bill . Never seen the manager and spent most of our time just waiting. Good thing we're all good company lol or it would have been such a boring and awkward time. My cousin went to the food court and at his food at our table that's how bad it was. The kids where so hungry. It was just a very bad experience. We made the best of it after and the games where fun. Highly don't suggest eating there unless you have no other plans for the day. But on a positive note it could have just been a bad day. I personally won't be eating there anytime soon. A few ppl felt sick after also.