Indoor kart racing and conference rooms?
There are many places which offer a combination of indoor kart racing, arcade, bar and grill and also meeting/conference rooms for businesses.
Where and how did this trend start with using the sport of indoor kart racing as a place for business meetings?
There are lots of such places. A lot of business people find that burning off the competition and then having a meeting, is very productive and it can be used to entice involvement in these meetings. It originally started when the owner of an electric supply business with a large warehouse facility brought his kids go karts to work and ran them around the warehouse, then challenged the other management to races that lead to "dropping" the guard and good business conversations ensued. It then became a monthly get together and other managers started buying their own karts to beat the others and later their profit margins increased. The owner started giving motivation talks to other business owners and invited them to participate in the indoor race challenge. Now the group of managers that started racing for fun before meetings owns and runs a chain of indoor race tracks. NAHHH! I made it all up, but that is how these things start up, but no one has the exact point in time where and when it started. But I had you glued to the story.