Dave & Buster’s has its roots in the late 1970s in Little Rock, Arkansas, where two businesses were successful in their own right, side by side in the Missouri Pacific Train Station.
One business was Buster’s Restaurant and the other was Dave’s “Slick Willy’s World of Entertainment.”
Buster and Dave became friends and decided to open a restaurant that combined delicious food and the biggest and best arcade games. Their first site was in Dallas, Texas, in 1982.
Today each Dave & Buster’s has a full-service restaurant and a video arcade. There are 133 locations across the United States and Canada. Dave & Buster’s is a subsidiary of Oak Hill Capital Partners, which bought the company in 2010.
Dave & Buster’s has 2,220 employees and had $541 million in revenue in 2011. 
The company launched a second IPO on the NASDAQ in 2014 under the ticker symbol: PLAY
Dave and Buster’s had a disappointing second-quarter return posted in September 2019.
In January 2022, co-founder James “Buster” Coley was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Company headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas.
Dave & Buster’s has its roots in the late 1970s in Little Rock, Arkansas, where two businesses were successful in their own right, side by side in the Missouri Pacific Train Station.
One business was Buster’s Restaurant and the other was Dave’s “Slick Willy’s World of Entertainment.”
History
Buster and Dave became friends and decided to open a restaurant that combined delicious food and the biggest and best arcade games. Their first site was in Dallas, Texas, in 1982.
Today each Dave & Buster’s has a full-service restaurant and a video arcade. There are 133 locations across the United States and Canada. Dave & Buster’s is a subsidiary of Oak Hill Capital Partners, which bought the company in 2010.
Dave & Buster’s has 2,220 employees and had $541 million in revenue in 2011.
The company launched a second IPO on the NASDAQ in 2014 under the ticker symbol: PLAY
Dave and Buster’s had a disappointing second-quarter return posted in September 2019.
In January 2022, co-founder James “Buster” Coley was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Company headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas.
