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    Strikers

    3.6 (61 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 12:00 AM (Next day)

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    Colleen O.

    I came here around 2 weeks ago with a big group of friends to go bowling for my birthday . I was not able to reserve lanes in advance, but I thought coming in to reserve 4 lanes that evening would be easy on a Sunday night ... it was not . The staff made us feel like we were a hassle - insisted on all names and payments up front for all 21 of us, however, I didn't know if some people were bringing a plus one nor did I know how many games they all wanted to play . We are all in our 30s-40s and not a troublesome bunch . Even if they were able to help us get situated in the meantime instead of being so rigid with our large group (which did in fact spend quite a bit of money there) , it would have relieved some of the stress on both ends . We eventually got everything squared away, because thankfully everyone arrived within 20 minutes of the event time and everyone cooperated. The lanes did work well with no mishaps and everyone seemed to have fun . I didn't order food but it was said to be average fast food fare . I would go to Strikers again , but not as a large party, as they seem to prefer you to book a party separately (not economically feasible for me ) or deal with smaller groups . FYI - it is $16 for 2 games of bowling and shoe rental - not sure if that is comparable to other facilities .

    Dry turkey club. Order mayo all you want. You won't get it.
    Rebecca W.

    I've been coming here for years. Always a fun time. The staff is amazing, very friendly. The atmosphere is good. The floors could be better, you won't slide much. The food however good. No matter how many times you ask for mayo on your sub you will not get it. You will get a dry SUB EVERY TIME. So ask for mayo on the side so that you can add it yourself. (Not that you should have to for the price) The kids love the arcade too. And you can't go wrong with their chicken fingers or wings.

    Christine K.

    A friend of mine used to bartend here on Saturday nights. We have eaten here many times and it's always good. Today I was out to get my Mom groceries during the COVID19 isolation and decided to grab a pizza. Was quoted 20 minutes on the phone and sure enough the pizza was ready to go when we got there. Quick and efficient take out experience!

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    Jen F.

    Yes, this is a bowling alley! And the bar and restaurant is always packed. Insanely great beer selection, lots of tables and room at the bar, great service, and reliable food.

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    How do you serve a steak sub and half the roll has NOTHING on it? This shouldn't even leave the kitchen. Roast beef was very dry and we couldn't eat it. After paying the bill, left there hungry!

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    Great time at the local bowling alley for my daughter's 9th birthday! Great deals on birthday rates! The birthday cake was superb!

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    Best fish fry in town! The fish is great and the sides are so yummy too! Call early for pickup time you want!

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    Went to Strikers for dinner last night. Ordered the chicken fingers. They were absolutely horrible.

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    AMF Lancaster Lanes

    AMF Lancaster Lanes

    2.9(21 reviews)
    5.9 mi
    Sports on TV
    Wheelchair accessible

    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.

    ugh, I will say it is very rare for me to write a review but I feel like this has to be said for…read morefamilies who might be interested in coming here. Today I brought my two young kids (6 and 3) and husband to bowl one game. it costs us $68! We were stunned! $10 a bowler (even for the 3 year old) and $6 a person for shoe rental!!! on top of that, we ordered nachos and a kid pizza (separate from this cost) and it took 45 minutes. We were done playing by the time came. It was so disappointing. The staff seems over worked and didn't care at all when we went up 3 times to check on 45 min NACHOS!!! needless to say, we won't be coming back.

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