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Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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That only says no hot food, so cold food is ok?

badgers_back

513 posts

185 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Is cold hot food fine???

Day old KFC bucket???

HTP99

22,442 posts

139 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Cotty said:
That only says no hot food, so cold food is ok?
Also no mention of soft drinks, only alcohol.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,246 posts

149 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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I've always assumed cinema refreshments were reserved for lottery winners. Our family hit Poundland before going in.

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
I've always assumed cinema refreshments were reserved for lottery winners. Our family hit Poundland before going in.
You'd probably get more money by hitting a bank, or a Post Office, but each to their own, I suppose.

Jinx

11,345 posts

259 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Cotty said:
That only says no hot food, so cold food is ok?
I read that as no hot food or hot alcohol - damn it no flaming Drambuie for me during guardians of the galaxy then.....

Funkycoldribena

7,379 posts

153 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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PAULJ5555 said:
I dont buy any food drink when I go to the cinema because its a rip off. If they just charged normal prices I would buy popcorn/drinks/icecream and so would more people.

So the question is would they make more money if they lowered their prices?
Course they would,but as usual greed clouds judgement.

Usget

5,426 posts

210 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Cotty said:
That only says no hot food, so cold food is ok?
It also makes no mention of bringing camping stoves. I might take a ready meal and a Trangia next time.

Otispunkmeyer

12,555 posts

154 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Muncher said:
iirc popcorn has just about the highest margin on any product sold anywhere in the world, second only to perfume I believe!
Brother works at a cinema. Pop corn is pretty much all profit.

mike-r

1,539 posts

190 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Not sure why people need food in the cinema anyway, it's gone by the time the film starts, and can't people manage not eating for two hours? I'll get a coffee now and again but nachos in the dark isn't the best game to play.

Moonhawk

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10,730 posts

218 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Otispunkmeyer said:
Brother works at a cinema. Pop corn is pretty much all profit.
I'm pretty sure this guys stance wasn't about profit.......some people just like to wield what little power they have - even if that power amounts to nothing more than the ability to deny somebody an inch or so of popcorn.

burwoodman

18,709 posts

245 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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STW2010 said:
burwoodman said:
TIGA84 said:
The bag it comes in costs more IIRC.
To be fair though- movie theatres make screw all on films. The studios make the money leaving the theatres to make their end via popcorn. I remember years ago i took my own food when i was a student and back then you had the boy with the flashlight. He came up to me to inspect my food and demanded i discard it or leave. lol
How can cinemas not make money from the films? At about £8 PER PERSON they could be making nearly a grand per showing for the latest films.

I rarely go to the cinema anymore as it is such a rip off.
OK- so of your £8 the venue keeps between 80p and 1.60. The studio gets the rest, up to 90% of the ticket price.

Edited to add that when mega block busters like the last Star Wars instalment are released the studios get/got 100% of all ticket sales for the first opening week.

Movie theaters are then forced to really make their money off food/beverage

Edited by burwoodman on Wednesday 30th July 13:54

Jonjo91

1,833 posts

157 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Moonhawk said:
We go to the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth quite a lot (an independent cinema - funded from the Letchworth heritage fund) - Its a great cinema with a fantastic screen, £5 a ticket for mid week showings (even at that price you can still get 2 for 1 on orange Wednesdays) ........and they have a bar biggrin

Only reason we didn't go there last night was because they only have 3 screens and had stopped showing this particular movie.
I sometimes do the same as Moonhawk, small world!

It beats sitting at home watching a film, I do buy into the whole cinema experience!

Moonhawk

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10,730 posts

218 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Jonjo91 said:
I sometimes do the same as Moonhawk, small world!

It beats sitting at home watching a film, I do buy into the whole cinema experience!
It's one of the best cinemas I have been to - real old school cinema feel, especially if you get a showing on screen 1. Whilst newer multiplex cinemas have increased the variety and viewing time options - they have massively reduced the experience IMO.

BHC

17,540 posts

178 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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The most annoying experience I had with a jobsworth was in Russia. Two men walked past me smoking cannabis and about 3 paces behind there was a policeman, who bullocked me for smoking whilst standing still (you're not allowed to do that there).

Hackney

6,810 posts

207 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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At a Cineworld I went to buy a drink and popcorn (for my wife, I don't like the stuff) and was told to I should upgrade to a large as it was "cheaper".
I didn't realise at the time but wish I had challenged the guy. When I thought about it he'd said the same to the people in front of us. I suspect he meant better value as it would be nonsense to have the large cheaper than the medium.

O/T avoid Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue at all costs it is the single worst cinematic experience of my life. It's like the whole place is decorated to replicate a nightclud toilet. It's ridiculously expensive too. The one in docklands is much better.

BrabusMog

20,083 posts

185 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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LOL, with a name like Hackney I'm surprised you don't know that any West End Cinema is hugely overpriced. Apart from the Curzon, that's a good'un.

SilverSixer

8,202 posts

150 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Picture the scene. A pub in London, Saturday night. A World Cup quarter final is on the TV. Holland v Costa Rica. Plenty of Dutch in the pub, plenty of interested neutrals. Plenty of beer drunk. Barman says we can watch the game to the end, but hang on. It goes to penalties. The penalties will be taken AFTER chucking out time. What does the barman do? Think oh well, it's just the once, unlikely to get caught, even if the Old Bill roll up they'll understand. No. He turns off the TV and hides. Mayhem. But we can't afford to hang around looking for the silly tosser, we've got to find a reasonable pub where they're still showing the match.

Fortunately we did, and fortunately for Mr Jobsworth he didn't get lynched. For a geezer with a dreadlocked ponytail and enough ear rings and tats to sink the Ark Royal, he wasn't half keen on implementing "the man's" rules.

A57 HSV

1,510 posts

229 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Keeping to the cinema theme. For my best friends 14th birthday, his mum took me and him to a small cinema in Bristol to see National Lampoons Animal House.

Back in the 70's there was still an "interval". There wasn't an ice cream seller with a tray, but they did have a tiny room with a serving hatch in the foyer, which sold the traditional range of cinema snacks etc.

The hatch was only about 4ft wide if that, but there were two middle aged women squeezed next to each other both serving and sharing one till. As such two queue's had formed. My mate and I were together in the left queue, he had the money that his mum had given to us. When it was his turn, he politely asked for two Kiora's and two bags of butterkist. The woman replied that she could sell us the drinks but not the popcorn as the woman next to her sold that, so he'd have to join that queue. My mate pointed out that they shared one till and if she just reached across a foot she could get the butterkist. This caused the woman to get furious and start ranting on at him about being rude. This made us laugh uncontrollably, as only kids can do, which made her even more furious. We both remember that she told us we'd "been dragged up".

We never got the butterkist as the queue was too long and the film was about to re-start.

Still one of the best "jobs worth" incidents I've ever experienced.

Hackney

6,810 posts

207 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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BrabusMog said:
LOL, with a name like Hackney I'm surprised you don't know that any West End Cinema is hugely overpriced. Apart from the Curzon, that's a good'un.
We were given Cineworld vouchers, so had to use them there. And to be honest, my point isn't that it's overpriced (although it was) but that he could have been misleading people by saying "cheaper" when he meant "better value".

West End is easier for us to get to and I'd never been before, so assumed that being in the West End it might be half decent. Couldn't have been more wrong.
Hence the next time we used them we drove to docklands.

My usual cinemas are Barbican and Screen on the Green though, away from the popcorn eating riff raff.

BTW username is a misnomer, I now live in Islington smile