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Author Topic: Regal Announces Admission Prices To Rise 3% to 4% James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-26-2013 01:04 PM                     I can't recall the last time I had a 50 cent coin come through at my theater. They could have easily done so when I wasn't there. In the early 80s, when admission was $3.50 for adults and $1.50 for children, the Winchester Twin doled out 50 cent coins for change at box office. The cashier had a roll of them on the counter. That may have been the last time I've seen a roll of 50 cent coins...  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-26-2013 06:04 PM                     I really liked the Kennedy half-dollar. As coins go...it had the right combination of size/weight (for what it was/is) and the look of it was good too. You wouldn't really want a pocket of them but you don't really want a wallet full of $1 either.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-26-2013 09:22 PM                        Joe: I've never heard of any stores not taking them. We do get the occasional person who doesn't want to take them because they don't fit into a vending machine but most people love them.  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 05-27-2013 02:35 PM                     Two weeks ago or so, I had a guest come in and pay for a ticket entirely with Kennedy half-dollars. Every chance I got to give one back to another guest as change, I did, until they were all gone. At the end of the night, as I was doing the closing drops, I noticed not a single one was used at the snack bar.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-27-2013 06:29 PM                        On a busy weekend we'll go through up to six rolls or more of them but it's rare that we get more than a couple back at the concession.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 05-28-2013 02:28 AM                     [quote: Joe] And you just KNOW that when they make change they'll hand you the bills first and put the coins on top of the bills which ensures they slide down to the ground. [/quote] I laughed out loud! I do this when working box office. But in my defense, I don't 'release' the pile until the dazed customer actually realizes they have to actively take something. It's very rare that it spills onto the ground, and when it does, it's typically a 15 year old boy who just leaves it on the ground anyways... Haha Overall it's quite a bit quicker. Not saying speed is everything, but with a vestibule that's not climate controlled, they just want to gtfo.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-28-2013 02:42 AM                        How could it be "quicker"? When taking change out of the cash drawer, you always count it up and not down, so you take the smallest denominations out of the drawer first. I remember being taught how to make change in elementary school, way back when, but that's apparently a lost skill today since I've never yet hired a concession person to work here that I didn't have to teach the proper way to make change. NEVER SUBTRACT. Always count up. I can always tell if someone is trying to subtract when making change since they take the larger denominations out of the drawer first.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-28-2013 06:07 AM                     The problem with making change today is that the computer/cash register tells the operator what the proper amount should be. The operator then takes the prescribed change from the drawer in the order it is displayed, bills first, coins last. Teaching the art of "counting back" has been lost to the digital equipment age. "Your purchase was $4.75 from $5.00 and your change is $4.75 (handing back $.25) and $.25 makes $5.00. Thank You. Placing the customer's large bill on the cash drawer rather than feeding it into the proper bin also eliminates the scam of receiving a $10.00 bill and the patron asking for change from the $20.00 allegedly given to you. While in Germany, I noticed that all of the clerks that helped us did count the money back to us even though the amount was clearly displayed on the cash register screen.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-28-2013 06:18 AM                        As a customer, I don't really care how the cashier makes change, as long as he does it correctly. An understanding of basic math is kind of important, though. I hate pennies and will often give a cashier, say, $4.02 when the total $3.97 and, most of the time, the cashier will become totally confused, even though the cash register is right there to indicate thta I should get $.05 in change. Agreed with the comment above about not handing back coins and bills at the same time. Always give the customer his coins first, and then his bills.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-28-2013 08:30 PM                     quote: Frank Cox I can always tell if someone is trying to subtract when making change since they take the larger denominations out of the drawer first. The computer did the subtraction for them.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-28-2013 09:46 PM                        No computers here. Just cash drawers. Anyone working here needs to be able to add and make change.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-28-2013 10:37 PM                        We use computers, but our employees are trained to count change back. I don't like them to say "$4.50 is your change" and just hand the cash back in a pile, unless we are really busy. We like them to count it to the customer in most cases. The first and easiest step in bringing back this long-dead tradition to any 21st century business is to disable the "amount tendered" function on your computer, cash register or whatever. In RTS this can be done by simply deleting the "tender" button from the register layout and replacing it with just a total button (or sometimes called "exact change.") The bigger challenge is weaning the employees off of the amount-tendered method. Modern teenagers might sometimes seem stupid (considering some of their piercings, tattoos and fashion choices it's not surprising) but we have never had one yet who can't be trained to count change. When you show them that you basically count it to yourself as you're pulling the coins, then bills, out of the drawer, after a few tries they marvel at how simple it is. It's just like counting on your fingers, one girl told me. We have the kids practice making change with each other. In most cases they can master it in about 10 minutes.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 05-29-2013 12:30 PM                     Every now and again I will order thru my bank a few hundred dollars in $2 bills, and spend them everywhere. I only once had a problem, where the teenage cashier did not know that $2 bills were real currency, and called a manager to verify that she could take them.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-29-2013 08:43 PM                        Along similar lines, I once had a $5 silver certificate that I brought to the bank and the cashiers felt the need to call the local headquarters to make sure it was real US Currency. My cashier decided to "buy" the bill because she thought it was so odd.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-12-2013 04:24 PM                        The cost of movie tickets have gone up about .25 cents per summer for the last 25 years I have been in this business. This is definately NOT news. Sometimes, Regal likes to pull the 'ole raise the prices right before the winter too. So sometimes, they have been known to raise their prices .50 cents to .75 cents in one year. You ever notice that when they raise their concession prices- that ain't news?  |  IP: Logged

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