Four Quarters
The founders of the popular arcade chain challenge Paul Drury to a four-player game of Gauntlet
» Four Quarters business meetings can sometimes get out of hand (L-R) Marc Jones, Fran Kitching and Joe Dowling.
» The interior of the Elephant Park venue – gun games and multiplayer driving cabs are always popular.
If you like coin-ops and craft beer as much as we do, you should definitely visit a Four Quarters arcade and bar. Owned by five equal partners – Joe Dowling, Marc Jones, Francois Kitching, Tom Humphrey and Simon Dennison – they opened their first venue in Peckham in 2014 and now run three locations across London, with more planned both in and outside the capital.
What motivated you to start Four Quarters?
Marc Jones: All five of us have slightly different reasons but we all share a love for retro and a connection from our childhoods with arcades. For me visiting an arcade was the best bit of any holiday growing up and I still have vivid memories of the various arcades in Westward Ho!. When I started to hear of arcade bars popping up in the USA I checked to see if any existed in the UK. There weren’t so I was determined to start my own and to do it right with authentic machines.