A friend and I once took a dozen donuts and a 2 liter of Mug root beer into a movie theater. The guy doing bag checks looked at me and my friend and said, “Good choice in snacks” and let us in.
we would go to the dollar theater and bring all kinds of food. our favorite was the 7 part chinese dinner
I love how some posters have a very specific taste in memes and I can tell who’s posting without even checking
The largest cinema corporation in Sweden (when asked about why they chose to restrict people from bringing their own snacks) infamously compared bringing snacks not bought at the cinema to brining your own food to a restaurant.
Putting aside the real reason is they don’t earn much from the movies themselves and profit more from concessions, his logic doesn’t even make sense lmao.
I suppose if their only source of considerable income was from snacks, then the comparison would make sense. Although it doesn’t make sense from a customer perspective where you’re paying more than 20 $/€ for a ticket (at least in Sweden)
Concessions are their source of income. Studios use their monopoly on granting film access to demand almost all of the money from ticket sales (something like 90% of the ticket price IIRC), so the theater doesn’t actually make that much off of movies.
Concessions on the other hand, especially stuff that costs pennies to make like soda and popcorn, are pure profit and are basically the only way many theaters can stay in business these days.
Damn, capitalism sure is great and is definitely working
Yeah but the statement wasn’t saying anything about where their income comes from, just that bringing your own snacks to the movies is like bringing food to a restaurant. Cinemas deliver movies as their primary product if we’re looking at it from the customer’s perspective. So following the logic, bringing your own food to a restaurant would equate to going to the cinema to watch a movie on your phone.
Well said!
I normally thought this way, but most cinemas make cents at best on movie tickets. Vast majority of the ticket price goes directly to the producer. The only way they cover the rest of their overhead (and stay in business) is thru concessions.
They get 20-30% of the ticket sale. Considering the price of tickets, that’s more than cents.
The share they keep increases the longer the movie plays.
This idea that they get almost none of the sales is a story they sold people so people would feel guilty not paying for over priced concessions.
And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.
For years and years they convinced us we need bigger, better TVs with surround sound and all the add-ons. That every person should build their own home theatre
Then they get mad that we stop going to their theatre.
Who tf is “they”??? I don’t think cinema owners were the ones pushing for mass adoption of home theatres.
The people in the video media industry…
I thought that would have been obvious.
Yeah my big flatscreen in my tiny TV room takes up most of my field of vision from the couch. The difference in quality is almost negligible, but I can pause to grab food, rewind if I missed something, and there’s no one else there on their phone or just making noise.
I’ll see a movie in the theater every once in a while if it’s like a grand spectacle, but most movies are just fine at home, if not better.
Well then they need to figure out a different arrangement with the studios then, selling overpriced popcorn is not a profitable business model, my local indie theater has fixed price tickets and their concessions include alcohol and THC products, it’s a better value for money than any of the chain theaters like AMC, Regal. Plus they run older cult classic Hollywood and international movies and it attracts a better crowded, not the loud people who are on their phones.
It’s ironic, in my area a lot of small theatres had to close or pivot to arthouse cinemas once multiplex cinemas rolled in, but now we have a revival of the same small theatres since multiplexes have become obscenely expensive and are swarmed with obnoxious teenagers.
That’s not my problem. If the Free Market™ works then prices will settle out where they need to so that I don’t have yo bring my own snacks and they don’t have to overcharge for them. Otherwise, the Free Market™ doesn’t actually work and they can get fucked anyway.
The same fucking person!
Baggy pants are coming back and me and my JNCOs couldn’t be more ready.
Edit: anybody know how to get 20+ years of basement funk out of denim?
Edit 2: Axe seems to work just as well now as it did back then.
Edit 3: I’m not the same size I was in highschool.
I’m not the same size I was in highschool.
Don’t you just hate it when your penis shrinks?
Neither I nor my JNCOs were as ready as I thought we were.
Axe never fails me tho.
Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine buys jujyfruits from the theatre snack counter even though she wasn’t watching the movie? Most unrealistic episode ever.
