How parents can I.D. family venue red flags; Expert spotlights avoidable facility and operational debacles exacerbating safety issues
The facts are sobering, gut-wrenching and indisputable. America?s children are needlessly suffering?and even dying?due to subpar safety standards at family entertainment venues across the board.  This as evidenced, for one, by the ceaseless glut of reports on recent amusement and trampoline park adolescent deaths (many with details too horrific to recount), paralysis and a litany of other catastrophic injuries. But the problem is far more pervasive than that, as an array of other types of family-oriented centers and activities fraught with downright unacceptable facility flaws and inadequate policies, or a lack of suitable safety measures or policies all-together. Enter family entertainment venue executive Tim Murphy, Chief Executive Officer of Rebounderz Family Entertainment Centers. He?s a seasoned franchise and hospitality executive who, beyond his 30-plus year tenure with Rebounderz, has coached hundreds of executives, owners and businesses on best practices among public, private, startup and private equity companies in the international franchise, entertainment, restaurant, food, retail, resort, theme park, service, manufacturing, development and real estate space.
Today, leveraging his more than three-decade tenure in the family hospitality space for the greater good, Murphy is on a mission to significantly improve safety standards not...