Mapping a private for profit venue for playing collectible card games

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Hi! I would like some ideas about how to map a private venue, run for profit, where people go mainly to play collectible card games (e.g. Magic: The Gathering). Access is free: like most public venues in Italy there is no access control. The venue sells some collectible card products, miniature wargame products, and runs a small bar with a limited selection of foods and beverages. There is no table service. They run a lot of Magic tournaments where players must pay a fee to play. It’s a bit like a bar, and a bit like a toy shop, so maybe I’ll start with those two. But most people don’t go there to buy toys or use the bar: people go there to play. What could be a tag for a place like this? (do we even need anything this specific?)

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amenity=cafe

cafe=board_game

I like it.

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What’s the main focus of this place, is it the retail aspect or the play space? Most local game shops near me would be tagged as shop=games, since the play space is just an expected thing in these kinds of stores. amenity=cafe does seem a bit odd if it’s a limited selection of food and drink.

If you’ve got a link to their website or social media, that might help too.

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It’s not a =cafe if that’s not the main offering. You could add cafe=yes / bar=yes to shop=games to show both comparatively.
If this needs to be explicit, eg table=yes might be added by reuse, and it’s guessed or assumed to be playing tables. Otherwise, tabletop games don’t have a sport= , and it’s not a club= either. board_games= is for whether it’s provided at =cafe etc, or perhaps sold at other shops, not whether it’s played.

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are they selling primarily food/drinks or games?

there is a similar place in my city and main income source is pizza/beer/etc, so I tagged it as amenity=pub

though some games are AFAIK also sold there, and main point to coming there is playing games - pizza is edible, but I buy it given price/quality/size only because I treat it as a payment for table space

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here is a similar POI in Rome: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12778763452
I did not add cafe tags, but I think it could be misleading also, because as far as I remember they sell less food and drinks as in your description (IIRC just a beverage vending machine)