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Topic: Theatres Without Popcorn??
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Marcel Birgelen
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From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 02-02-2015 04:30 AM
quote: Scott Norwood
I have always sort of wondered about Imax and Omnimax theatres (the real ones) that sell food. The institutional ones generally do not, and I always assumed that this was out of fear of people throwing up in the theatre due to motion sickness. Is this the real reason and, if so, is it a real problem?
Most REAL IMAX theaters that show feature length films I know off, do sell concessions. In Europe, the only one that's still operating and comes to mind is the BFI IMAX in London and they do sell concessions (including popcorn). As for the Metreon and Lincoln Square IMAX, last time I visited, they offered the full range of concessions. It's not really a comfortable situation though, you end up cramming your stuff between your legs or holding it the entire show.
I've never watched a feature-length movie in OMNIMAX, besides some rides and attractions using OMNIMAX as means of presentation, I've only seen a handful of documentaries in The Hackworth Dome in San Jose (now also showing a limited amount of feature films), the Discovery IMAX convertible dome in Berlin (now sadly gone) and the Omniversum in The Hague. The only one selling a limited amount of concessions when I last visited was the Omniversum. They're selling bottled drinks and a handful of snacks. You're not really supposed to eat and drink in the auditorium though, but it's seemingly tolerated.
I guess none of those original IMAX and OMNIMAX theaters was ever built with the idea of eating and drinking during the show. Most of those shows were obviously also sufficiently short.
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-16-2015 11:49 AM
When I first started at the performing arts center, they, like most arts centers, were too foo-foo to sell anything as pedestrian as popcorn. Management of these places usually see themselves as more refined and sophisticated than the lowly movie theatre which caters to the unwashed masses. When I started the cinema arm at the center, I insisted we had to install a popcorn machine and sell popcorn. There was immediate and significent pushback against it, using the pretext that such food stuffs would ruin the interior of the theatre. My retort was, so, "you mean all the thousands of cinemas across the country have figured out how to clean their auditoriums, but we can't?" We sold popcorn. When the formal cinema series was shut down after two decades, the popcorn popper was immediately removed and the concessions that they sell -- candy, drinks, potato chips (?) now must be eaten in the lobby at a multitude of mini-tables that line the walls. Seems they rather opt for pretentious foo-foo perception over concession profits, specifically popcorn profits, substantial as they are. Oh well. We are not running movies regularly, so what do I care.
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