BUSINESS FEATURE
BY SUMAIYA MALIK
RELEASE YOUR RAGE The Breaking Point has several options for groups from families to corporate events. The Breaking Point provides protective gear customers have to wear before entering any of the rooms.
The escape room, the axe-throwing room and the splatter room are all $30 per person for each session. The rage room is anywhere from $25 to $45 per person, depending on the package. BYOB , or bring your own breakables, is the least costly package in which people bring their own items such as plates, lockers or even appliances. Customers are required to sign a liability waiver . Anyone under age 18 must have a parent or guardian sign a parent consent form.
The Breaking Point provides paint and canvas in the splash room. Customers are free to mess up the walls with paint.
From left: Evan, Jason and Tyler Fallwell run The Breaking Point. Jason and wife Jaime are the owners while sons Evan and Tyler manage the business.
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The Breaking Point Family-run rage room allows participants to ‘unleash inner beast’ J ason Fallwell was waiting at a trac light in Tucson, Arizona, in 2018, when he saw April 17, 2021, opened The Breaking Point at 12233 N. RM 620, Ste.109, Austin. The business is designed like a rage room but has more options. The business does not allow
escape room, where participants solve a mystery. “The business itself is just inno- vative entertainment,” said Fallwell, who previously worked in retail management. The concept of getting rid of pent-up stress or anger by going to a rage room is not new in Austin, but to have four dierent rooms to choose from when one hits the sup- posed “breaking point” is something Fallwell said sets his concept apart. Fallwell said people bring their families, or couples come to have fun on a date night. “You can go to miniature golf, and how many movies are you going to go to? … This is just something dierent,” he said.
The Breaking Point does not allow Crocs or open-toed shoes .
a business had opened in a vacant building where people could smash things “in a place where it is socially accepted” and not worry about breakage or cleanup. “I had never seen anything like that,” Fallwell said. “So, I booked it for my anniversary for my wife, [Jaime], and so we went and did it, and it was a good time.” His two high school-aged sons, Evan and Tyler, also loved it. So the family began thinking of setting up a similar business in Austin, a city they thought they could call home. The couple waited for the COVID-19 pandemic to wane, and on
The Breaking Point 12233 N. RM 620, Ste. 109, Austin 737-270-4790 www.thebreakingpointaustin.com Hours: Wed.-Sun. noon-8 p.m., closed Mon.-Tue.
alcohol, requires closed-toed shoes and provides participants with full- body overalls, a hard hat, goggles and gloves before they embark on the breaking spree, which actually has an organized plan. Dierent areas of The Breaking Point include a splatter room, where children as young as 3 can splash paint on the walls, oor or a canvas; the rage room, where one can play baseball with bottles or destroy a fax machine; a weapon-throwing room where one can throw axes; and an
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