How much money?

On an average scale how much money would sfga make per day? Not that they would want to but couldn' they build a new coaster every month with all of the money that they take in per day? My 2 cents,take out shockwave and ironwolf, and eagle and put in some world thrilling coasters.

Get rid of your two cents IMO. I'd guess upwards from on average $750,000.00 That's including, food, games, parking, and admission. But that doesn't come out to a TON of money after paying employees and ride running costs etc.

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Let's see. If SFGA makes enough money to make a new coaster every month, then why would SF be in so much debt?

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SFOG, are you saying that based on what Die Hard says? You must not have read his message entirely. He says his guess does not include the subtraction of wages, maintainence, electricity, gas, water, sewer, ad campains, and all those other things that buisnesses need. They have to rake in lots of money every day they are open, because they lose tons of money every day, even when they are closed.

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I don't think any park makes enough money each month to add a new coaster after you take out ride operating costs, employes, and all those little costs. Plus, why would they want to. That would take up way to much space way too fast, and then they would be completly out of space.

As a wild guess SFGAm averages 20,000 guests per day. (That's about 2,500,000 per year.) If we assume that the average guest drops about $70 per visit ($40 admission + $30 food, games, and souveniers), that gives a gross of roughly $1,400,000 per day. In a month, that gross would buy a couple of really nice coasters, However, the profit is probaly only 10-20% of the gross, and stock holders like to receive dividends.

Well, practically all of those numbers are wrong. It costs the same amount of money to operate a park if there are 5000 or 50000 in the park. Parks also do not get the full posted admission price, either. If they average 60%, they did good. Per caps change with temperature, and crowds. And expenses are a variable source that

You have to add workman's comp, infrastructure costs, warehousing, sales and marketing expenses, printing costs of brochures, catering menus, and thousands of other equipment pieces that are too numerous to mention.

You ask why Six Flags is in debt. True, it is huge, and it is barely managable in the off season, but when Premier Parks buys a park, they usually take over the park debt load, also. Elitch's Gardens, Funtime, Inc., Six Flags, Inc., and Marine World all came into the picture with sizable debt loads, which, unfortunately is a way business is done in the park industry.

...can't really blame them for taking on all this debt if they're getting their money at a good rate of interest...and they ARE doing a fairly decent job in trying to dominate/monopolize the industry...just my opinion, mind you...but consider how most of the smaller parks are going the way of the family farm.

keep in mind that many people attending these parks are season pass holders... So you can forget about counting 20,000 tickets every day.

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Planned Parks for this summer: CP, SFWoA, SFGAm, SFKK, PKI, MA, SFStL, HP, KW, SFMM, KBF. Is 11 enough?