James W. “Buster” Corley, co-founder of the popular restaurant and entertainment chain Dave & Buster’s, is dead at 72, the company confirmed.
Local media outlets reported that police were called to Corley’s Dallas residence on Jan. 2.
A spokesperson for the Dallas Police Department told The Washington Post via email that officers received a report of a shooting in the residential neighborhood of Lakewood. Officers arrived at the 6600 block of Yosemite Lane and found a man “with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.” They transported him to a hospital, where he died, police said.
Corley co-founded the eponymous Dave & Buster’s in 1982 with Dave Corriveau, opening their first store in a 40,000-square-foot warehouse in Dallas. The idea of combining arcade games and a restaurant under one roof was born, according to the company’s website, in the late 1970s, when Corley owned a restaurant and Corriveau an entertainment venue, and “the two young entrepreneurs noticed people rotating between their establishments” in Little Rock.
To attract customers, the pair initially placed a large American flag on a 100-foot pole that lit up at night outside their venue. The idea worked, he said, and customers began to come in — though the possibility that their plan would fail was always there.Corley and Corriveau ran Dave & Buster’s from 1982 to 1989.
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