<strong>About the Owners:</strong>

Ideal Escape rooms is owned by me (Jennifer) and my brothers (Kevin and Jeremy).  I'm a certified secondary mathematics teacher with a passion for puzzles, logic games, brain teasers, and challenges. I taught in Oxford Schools as a Substitute Teacher, and then a Mentor Teacher at Oxford Virtual Academy. I still enjoy teaching and learning, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity to work with my amazing brothers to build a family entertainment business that gets people away from phones and TVs to think together and play together in new ways. It also gives me the opportunity to learn so much about owning a business. And I have the best teachers since Kevin and Jeremy both own several businesses, both individually, and together.  Their passions for developing ideas, creating products, staffing businesses, and marketing services are contagious. And providing excellent customer service will always be a driving force.

We all have busy work and family schedules, but there's great satisfaction in working together to build something fun and new!  That's why we're so excited to bring escape games to Oxford, Michigan so you can enjoy quality, face-to-face, fun times with your friends and family too!  Escape games are perfect opportunities for team-building events and parties, and our wheels have been spinning about how to incorporate other fun activities, quality services, and unique entertainment experiences for a variety of audiences.

I've had a wonderful time getting to know other escape room owners, visiting other businesses, playing lots of escape games, attending an Escape Room convention in St. Louis, researching game options, customizing games, creating puzzles, and developing business ideas. The planning and construction process has been long, and we still have a ways to go...but we're committed to quality and excellence so it will be well worth our time when we open our doors. Expect the progress to be much more visible in the near future.  :-)

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<strong>How It All Began:</strong>

This all started when Kevin played an escape game for the first time with his son, Gabe, and a friend while on vacation. They had so much fun and wanted to play more games like that. Gabe talked about it for days, so Kevin called me and Jeremy with the idea of opening a family business together like that in Michigan! When they got home, Kevin and Gabe insisted that all of our families go together to play an escape game...so we did!  It didn't take long to get everyone excited about the idea, and we immediately started talking about themes, puzzles, props, business plans, promotions, locations, and everything else that goes into opening a new small business.  When we connected with the Legacy Center, we knew we were making the right decision to start this new adventure.

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