Ten pin bowling supplier to launch restaurant and bar venture

Ten pin bowling supplier Bowling Vision is to launch a new restaurant and bar venture, in Kettering, and has plans to roll it out nationally. Bowling Vision – the UK distributors for Brunswick, the bowling brand used by businesses including Center Parcs and Gravity Max – is behind a new leisure company called Accelerated Play. The new company’s first flagship venue will be Lucky Chuck’s, a “retro playground of pizza, cocktails and games” – opening in the former Mister Ray’s department store in Kettering’s Market Place in the new year. The team behind Accelerated Play said the venue will double up as a testbed for rolling out the concept nationally. The “late-1970s-inspired mash-up of arcade bar, pizza joint and gaming den” will be spread across two floors and create 30 jobs. As well as serving pizza by the slice, alongside cocktails and craft beer, the venue will offer augmented reality darts, interactive shuffleboard, computerised mini-golf, neon beer pong and American pool. Heading up the food and beverage will be Benny Peverelli, who was natural fast food brand Leon’s first head of food,who will be joined by head chef Jonno Page, who has previously worked for Jamie Oliver at Fifteen and at River Cottage.

Richard Negus of AG&G acted for the landlord.