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- From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
- Subject: Re: Why no cartoons before movies???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.050014.10640@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 05:00:14 GMT
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- In article <3672.1008.uupcb@satalink.com> ray.rooney@satalink.com (Ray Ro
- ney) writes:
- >TO: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
- >
- >MO>Yup. Remember, the money you pay for your ticket goes _straight_
- >MO>like a bullet into the movie company's coffers. The theater gets
- >MO>nothing out of it. All the profit has to come from the concession
- >MO>counter.
- >
- >Since when? It was 50-50 last I looked. (Which is why films have to
- >gross twice their cost to break even.) No theatre I have ever been
- >in/worked for could support the whole house nut from concessions alone.
- >
- > * SLMR 2.1a * Portions of this message have been pre-recorded.
- >
-
-
- According to a news report I saw, the average theatre gets 75%
- of its revenue from the concession counters (which is why they don't
- let you take your own food in--of course, that's never stopped me...).
- The report also featured a clip from a concessionaire training film,
- where all the impressionable young concessionaire minds were being
- taught to say things like, "Can I get you something to drink with
- that?" and "Will that be a large?"
-
- --
- Chris Meadows // CHM173S@SMSVMA // CMEADOWS@NYX.CS.DU.EDU
- "If blood be the price of admiralty, then I've just bought me
- a naval commission." -- Corwin, SIGN OF THE UNICORN, Roger Zelazny
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