They are hoping to convert to a community interest company, making the business eligible for public funding to run events for charities and autism support organisations.<\/p>\n
Mr Nagy said: “[Board gaming] is something with clear structure and clear rules, but they also get to be with people at the same time.<\/p>\n
“We’re getting a lot of these groups already.”<\/p>\n
Despite the fact they have not been hiring, Mr Nagy said more than 500 people had sent in their CVs.<\/p>\n
“People just want work in a board game caf\u00e9,” he added, “people like running [them], and there’s always a chance you might make it.”<\/p>\n
Simon and Gina Shepherd, the most recent newcomers, opened Dice Box on the aptly named Shepherd Street in July 2025.<\/p>\n
The couple hit financial trouble during the pandemic and had to sell their house, and later discovered the franchise.<\/p>\n
Mrs Shepherd, who had to stop working as a beautician during lockdown, said: “We both wanted to change our lives somehow, but just didn’t know how.”<\/p>\n
She believes board game cafes are becoming more popular because people are “always on the phone, scrolling”.<\/p>\n
“It’s a nice escape from that – you very rarely see people on their phones in here,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They are hoping to convert to a community interest company, making the business eligible for public funding to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-666962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115820263350643897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}