Is the chess room illegal?

The projects carried out by chess room and casino are almost the same, but the difference between chess room and casino is that it is a legal business project permitted by law, while casino is an illegal project. In addition, chess room generally does not involve gambling transactions such as money.

All profit-making business activities must be registered with the relevant state departments, approved by the relevant departments, handled with business licenses and corresponding business licenses, and paid relevant fees before relevant business activities can be carried out, otherwise it will be illegal. Not for the purpose of making profits, not punishing relatives for playing mahjong, playing poker and other entertainment activities with property winning or losing; Playing mahjong, playing poker and other entertainment activities with less wins or losses among people other than relatives, if the number of participants is less than 10, shall be convicted and punished according to different circumstances: (1) If the per capita gambling amount is less than 1000 yuan, it belongs to "mahjong entertainment" and will not be punished; (two) per capita gambling 1000 and less than 3000 yuan, a fine of 500 yuan; (3) Anyone who gambles more than 3,000 yuan but less than 5,000 yuan per capita shall be detained for less than 5 days; (4) Anyone who gambles for more than 5,000 yuan per capita shall be detained for more than 10 and less than 15, and fined for more than 3,000 yuan in 500 yuan.

Some points for attention in the operation of chess room;

1. First, create a comfortable chess room environment: the chess room is everyone's entertainment environment. If you can't provide a clean and comfortable environment, customers who come to the chess room will have a high return rate in the future. If possible, it is best to decorate the interior of the chess room, especially choose bright and soft lighting to make the customers who come to entertain feel comfortable.

2. Second, provide thoughtful chess room entertainment services: As one of the service industries, chess room is the most important to provide quality services for its customers. Don't give people a cold face because customers spend less. Especially for some tea house waiters, customers don't care if their cups are out of water. Don't be blunt in the attitude of service personnel. Or the customer shouted for a long time and nobody cared. This will easily lead to customer dissatisfaction and will not come again. Besides, this kind of thing is contagious. The chess circle is relatively small, and it is easy for several card friends to lose more customers when they spread the word.

3. Third, set a reasonable price according to the consumption of surrounding customers:

Chess room competition is relatively large. In addition to decoration services, the most important thing is to customize reasonable prices. When pricing, it is necessary to conduct a certain investigation on the surrounding consumption, and fluctuate by 20% of the average price of the surrounding chess room. For newly opened, you can set up some marketing offers or activities. As long as the consumption is reasonable and meets the psychological expectations of customers, customers will come to your chess room for consumption. Some incidental goods in the chess room are also needed, and tea can be divided into different grades and prices, but customers have more choices.

4. Fourth, stimulate consumption. As a chess room management, the most important thing is to become friends with customers. So customers will spend more in your store. Moreover, some activities and competitions can be held during the holidays, which can be combined with other chess and card rooms or organized by themselves. This will expand the consumption of more customers in your store.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.

Article 303

Whoever gathers people to gamble or gamble for profit shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined.

Whoever opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.

Whoever organizes People's Republic of China (PRC) citizens to participate in gambling outside the country (territory), if the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.