Mike, you are correct that an auditorium *can* be cleaned in fifteen minutes, but that requires a competent and LARGE staff (which we are hardly EVER allowed, not even in the holiday season do we have suffcicient staff. By the book we are alloted "x" amount of concessionists and ushers, but by that same book, we get so busy that to keep with ratio, we would have something like 8 ushers and 16 concessionists, with only eight registers available, so of course Carmike does not allow it...) So we always run into the problem of not being able to run these major motion pictures ON TIME because Carmike is a bunch of greedy bitches who don't know how to spread out their showtimes.

As for the intermissions, there are three possibilities:

1) Its just a district thing (I don't think so)
2) Its a division thing (much more likely)
3) Its a company wide policy (pretty sure it is) and your DM is just ignoring it.

As to Carmike setting/mandating showtimes across the board...

I've been around for 15 years and there have *always* been mandated times on *big* movies. These times most always originate from the same office in Columbus. While I in no way agree with this practice, I'm not really in a position to piss and moan about it either. After all, if the order comes from them, that's where I direct any comments/complaints. True, there are numerous times in the year where we have less than 15 minutes downtime, which SUCKS, but it's simply the way it is. I don't care for it but I abide by it. When the checker reports come in and the auditorium is noted as being dirty (luckily mine aren't most of the time) I like to point to the fact that we were checked at 9:xx on opening night of a sold out show (KIDS)while only given 10 minutes to turn the house around.

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