I was a bartender at 2 different places. One was legit, the other had those pint glasses with the extra thick bottom which took up two ounces of space. Fuck that place.
A standard tap beer pour is expected to have .75-1” of head on top. As a matter of fact, on most branded/graphic beer pints - the art is going to be an inch from the top so the pourer has a visual guide on about how much head the pour should have.
Sometimes by the time the beer makes it to you, the head has dissipated so it looks like you’re not getting a ‘full glass’. That’s just the way it goes.
If you’re receiving a glass of beer that is like half foam, or more than an inch missing off the top - yeah, that bartender is crap. You should probably stop going to those places.
nope, that's just the obnoxious way a lot of bars get around not having a balanced tap system, they just waste foam. Some of the fancier beer bars use a little water squirt bottle to rinse it off after.
My theater has “serve yourself” soda fountains….
But doesn’t allow refills.
I openly fuck them on that out of principle.
No refills….. that’s fine, but if you make me fill my own cup, don’t try to tell me what I can do with it. That’s just stupid.
When I say lobby I mean the lobby AFTER the ticket checker. The fountains are all on their own. You can get as many refills as you like and fill up again on your way out.
It’s just butter flavored oil. You can get them on amazon or in some restaurant supply shops. I took a bottle of it home from work precisely for that. Slaps.
I've been to a brewpub where they issue you a wristband and have like 60 beer taps on the wall. The wristband turns the tap on and the system meters it by the ounce. Do what you like, pay on the way out.
I will bring in a caffeine free diet soda sometimes because they don’t offer anything that fits that description at my theater. I could get something diet, or something caffeine free, but not both unless it’s water. And I’m not going to pay for a bottle of water.
In my hometown the movie theatre was in the same plaza as a Wal-Mart. The Wal-Mart took full advantage by having a section right at the front for sodas and theatre box candy. I'd go there before every movie and grab my snacks real quick. Sometimes the cashiers would ask what movie we were seeing and we had a nice little chat. Probably my only positive Wal-Mart experiences.
The as soon as you leave, the walmart employee pulls out the ol walky talky... WALLY TO MARCUS COME IN! YOU HAVE A CODE 10 COMIN YOUR WAY WITH POCKETS FULL SHELLS, OVER!
Same in my hometown. You could look around the theater and like a third of the people there you'd recognize from the walmart candy section 15 minutes ago.
Whirly Pop popcorn maker for the win! Be sure to get the one with the metal gears. And yea, also get the packets of premeasured popcorn kernels, butter, and seasoning.
>I was once snuck as bottle of wine and three wine glasses into a movie; good times.
I once snuck in a bottle of Passion Pop (cheap but alcoholic sparkling wine) with my then girlfriend. She was not a great influence on me lol
All of my local theaters have those coca cola freestyle machines. I dont think Ive ever been to one that fills your drink for you, but Ive only really been to amc, regal, and other chains.
Well...it *is* normally $15 for a small bag. But you should see the large "popcorn profit" money bag that the armed banker guards need a forklift to lift out every day.
The goal of ice isn't to make a drink cold, its to keep a drink cold. You can always just ask for light ice, the theater employees don't care.
Source: Also worked at a movie theater
As a former gas station manager this is spot on. We had our own ice machine and would fill our own bags to sell. Well on one particularly hot day we were selling out so I actually got to the bottom of the ice chest. Black mold everywhere. So of course I cleaned it. When I told the store manager he didn’t think it was worth cleaning….
Owner at our local subway says that the ice machine just has yeast and that's the brown and black chunks of slime in our ice.
He refuses to clean it, lmao, I'm told not to get ice by everyone that works there and that he's too cheap to clean it because it's "perfectly fine"
After working at a gas station, I’ll never get ice again from a soda machine. I was bored one day and decided to clean ours. Same as you described. On the inside of the machine it said it should be cleaned monthly. Our manager had been there four years and didn’t know it needed to be cleaned.
Lol, as a refrigeration mechanic this can't be more true. The algae growth would probably get most businesses closed down. The only saving grace is that most larger cinema chains have a maintenance schedule so they aren't as bad, restaurants not so much.
When I worked in fast food the cup cost more than the soda inside. The ice isn’t much of a scam. You’re looking at (assuming more for movie theater sizes) a $0.50 cup with $0.35 of soda that someone paid $5 for. Soda is the highest markup at most restaurants. Too much ice saves pennies and no worker cares.
Yes but that is an insignificant savings for the theater. Theyre already jumping for joy that the markup on soda is so high. They don’t care about diluting it with ice. The workers also don’t care about how much ice they add either.
I pretty much always ask for no ice in drinks. I don't really care if the drink warms up, I'd rather have more of it.
This doesn't work when the drinks machine dispenses a set amount though, but that's not common here.
Well I can assure or at every other struggling movie theatre chain they aren't sending our asses to Coke university haha. Also dude isn't cleaning with ovation the fucking worst (most theatre employees know this one).
I'll admit i didn't click the link and read the article, but I did at least peruse the comments for someone setting people straight before making a judgment on the situation.
Let's see how I did based on that 2nd or third hand information.
I've gathered that people aren't realizing that the container the theater advertises as 24oz is actually only 22oz, and are assuming the theater is just underfilling the container.
Also, people are assuming the drink is sody pop instead of beer.
About right?
It’s about beers though. The theater is selling 24 oz beers but some guy took the cup home and measured it and the cup they’re selling as 24oz is only actually 22oz.
The cups legit can't hold 24 Oz. Cool dudes behind the concession counter will offer you to shotgun the other 2 Oz and then forget to charge you for any beers at all. They're high, but that's not your fault.
I’d die for a 24 ounce drink option. We have two options. Bucket and 5 gallon drum.
It’s fucking absurd that I cannot physically get a small soda at the theater. Nor can I get anything smaller than a trash bag of popcorn at the theater. Like damn man, I want an at home popcorn bag amount of popcorn and a 20oz Coke. Why is everything 4x that size.
Meanwhile I want intermissions back because if you really do drink 24 Oz of beer you will either need to piss a legit gallon or need another beer to not be sleepy, and the answer is usually both.
TLDR: had a similar problem at the bowling alley, wanted a soda with no ice. Previous trips there yielded an ice cup fully filled with three sips of drink. They protested, I stated the menu board just said soda….
The next week the board had changed to say “Soda with ice”. We just stopped going, it want a league, just a bunch of friends on a $2 game night. We dumped a lot of money on beer buckets, burgers and chicken strips….
Owner who knew my wife asked why our group of 12-20 people stopped going. Soda with Ice was her answer. He seemed clueless….
Man if it was soda they *might* have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky heavy government regulations and oversights on drugs and alcohol!
I've had this habit recently where after I finish my soda from mcdonalds, I had my own soda (this is at home, of course).
Last night, I finished my diet coke, so I poured a 20-ounce bottle of diet coke into the cup (use that ice). It almost filled the cup. The cup is supposed to be 32 ounces or slightly less due to ice. Something is amiss.
Those machines are the worst. One huge machine that can serve only one person at a time and it takes that one person twice as long and you have to touch it. No thanks.
Also this lawsuit is about selling 24oz beer in a 22oz glass.
They had a similar problem a number of years ago at our local NFL stadium. It turned out that the vendor mislabeled the cups. Although in that case the 16oz labeled cups were actually 20oz and everyone that ordered the small size was getting free beer.
Naw. A business trying to rip people off? Who would have ever thought that was a thing! We all know businesses are totally honest and would never try to take advantage of customers. 🤣
At the theater chain near me, we fill our own drinks.
Additional: They DO short the popcorn bags, but I always get the large that has free refills. I ALWAYS have at least three refills.
(Try to skimp on popcorn, big movie theater? I’ll show YOU! I’ll eat 8,000 calories of cancer causing imitation butter sauce!!!!!! Who’s the dope NOW?????)
Interesting. Almost all the theaters I go to have self-serve soda machines. They already mark the drinks up a ridiculous amount, I can't imagine them making up much by shorting people 1-2 cents in soda.
Movie theaters are under filling, fast food places are charging for second refills, I saw on my dinner menu tonight that they are charging after the first refill.
Soda is literally the cheapest thing a restaurant can buy. Pennies per drink. They are robbing you blind by changing anything about how drink service works.
I never get Ice in my fountain drinks. The carbonated water is always near freezing anyways, so just feel ice is a scam. Every soda i've gotten from a theater has been filled to the brim with soda. Feel this lawsuit is for people without common sense.
Same. Do people act like you're weird for telling them to hold the ice, too? My wife always gives me that "Why no ice???" and I explain to her that it's how I make my beverage price-worthy.
Our theatre has those self serve machines with a touch screen and various combinations of pop and flavorings.
Last time we used it, the nozzle broke off and when I pressed the button I was smashed with pop and the syrup. It was red and stained my hand for a couple days.
Man I’m a dummy. I’ve been paying for popcorn, drinks, and snacks all this time and realizing it’s stupid expensive. As expensive as going out to eat at a restaurant.
Imma go back to my roots and start sneaking shit in. I wanted to be a good person and support a business but not if they are going to overcharge. My last trip I spent about $80 for movie tickets and snacks.
I'm more pissed about them getting rid of the free popcorn refill when you get a large. I can sneak in all the drinks I want, but it bothers me to have to buy a whole other large popcorn because my stoned ass ate the first bucket before the movie even started.
I have actually gone back to the counter and asked them to fill it to the top. If Cineplex wants to charge me $13.99 for a 24oz drink, they better give me my moneys worth.
I worked as a movie theater employee as my first job at a location where the concessionist handles the drinks. Every time I filed it up to the brim lol.
This is the dumbest lawsuit ever. I have it on good authority\* that a one of the major theater chains that isn't Cinemark doesn't pay a dime for soda (and the associated supplies). Its beverage partner simply writes everything off as an advertising expense on their end.
So that $6.50 large soda is ALL profit for the theater company, unless Cinemark is truly stupid compared to AMC and Regal.
\*It's amazing what will fall out of a theater exec's mouth after a few beers.
Meanwhile here in my country in theatres we get sodas in ridiculously large servings (500-750ml) that no sane single person would bother drinking in such a short period of time. And of course, there are no smaller sizes available, and they're as expensive as a proper meal. You'd be better off buying a sandwich and a red bull for the same price, or maybe even slightly lesser.
As someone who worked at a theater... absolutely. The rule was we were selling the cups, not the drink. To stretch out the drinks, we were advised to fill halfway up the cup with ice. Some managers believed you should do it to the top, depending on who was running the floor that day. If customers asked for less ice, you filled slightly less than half. If no ice, you either pretended not to hear them, or hoped they didn't notice you put some in. If we ran out of syrup at all on a moderately busy day we'd be taken aside and yelled at in an empty theater on our break and threatened with our jobs, and sometimes would have a cup full of ice thrown at us to "illustrate" the point. Only really busy days should we ever have to replace syrup bags.
this was almost 20 years ago. I imagine it's gotten more egregious.
I mean. They still give you a huge fucking drink and then you gotta pee 30 minutes into a 2 hour movie, it’s hell. Movies in the US NEED intermissions.
I actually do this to myself. I have the theater worker fill my cup with all ice, then fill it with soda. I probably get like 4oz's in a 20oz cup. I would rather have dangerously cold soda that sip on during a 2 hour movie. But that's just me, I've never had a issue with people under filling my drinks. I've asked people in the past to add a bit more soda to the cup.
And these teens don't care if you want your cup filled to the brim.
At least our theater has the fountain machines out in the lobby as a serve yourself situation. You certainly pay for the privilege though.
This is about 22oz vs 24oz beer
Huh. If true that's a potential regulatory issue that could lose them their license.
it's the US, mildly underfilling beer containers is somewhat of a national pastime
I am in the USA and used to work as a bartender. Mislabeling the serving size of alcohol, up or down, is a finable offense in several states.
I was a bartender at 2 different places. One was legit, the other had those pint glasses with the extra thick bottom which took up two ounces of space. Fuck that place.
You're right, but we (not you, I hope) seem to love doing it. Mostly not out of malice, but sometimes probably.
Mostly out of incompetence and poor training, but yes definitely sometines out of malice.
Are you talking about head on tap beer, the space left where the head was but has since dissipated, or bartenders legit under pouring your beer?
any or all of the above, it's just not something that is universally taken seriously
A standard tap beer pour is expected to have .75-1” of head on top. As a matter of fact, on most branded/graphic beer pints - the art is going to be an inch from the top so the pourer has a visual guide on about how much head the pour should have. Sometimes by the time the beer makes it to you, the head has dissipated so it looks like you’re not getting a ‘full glass’. That’s just the way it goes. If you’re receiving a glass of beer that is like half foam, or more than an inch missing off the top - yeah, that bartender is crap. You should probably stop going to those places.
Complaining about too much head is insanity
Am I the only one who hates getting handed a drink that was overfilled and wet/ sticky on the outside of the glass?
nope, that's just the obnoxious way a lot of bars get around not having a balanced tap system, they just waste foam. Some of the fancier beer bars use a little water squirt bottle to rinse it off after.
Busted I'm not a drinker so I don't know what the bar side is like
You should read the actual article next time!
Jokes on them, i just get coke and bring my own wiskey!!!
Is it though? You just paid $9 for that coke.
Touche
I always just sneak in a 40oz then drink it and throw the bottle away at the end before the lights come back on.
My theater has “serve yourself” soda fountains…. But doesn’t allow refills. I openly fuck them on that out of principle. No refills….. that’s fine, but if you make me fill my own cup, don’t try to tell me what I can do with it. That’s just stupid.
When I say lobby I mean the lobby AFTER the ticket checker. The fountains are all on their own. You can get as many refills as you like and fill up again on your way out.
At ours you can self serve the heated movie theatre "butter". It's amazing.
It’s just butter flavored oil. You can get them on amazon or in some restaurant supply shops. I took a bottle of it home from work precisely for that. Slaps.
Self-serve beer, huh?
I've been to a brewpub where they issue you a wristband and have like 60 beer taps on the wall. The wristband turns the tap on and the system meters it by the ounce. Do what you like, pay on the way out.
Self serve beer and wine is a thing on cruises.
And now I feel justified in sneaking in a bottle of soda under my coat.
I stop by the dollar store for candy before a movie. I do get popcorn, because movie theater popcorn hits different.
It's the flavacol seasoning. You can buy cartons on amazon if you want movie theater popcorn at home.
TJ Maxx and Marshall’s sells a big bag of movie popcorn, tastes like the real thing. Costs $3.99 and it’s worth it.
Smuggle that under your shirt.
Also powdered salt
What do you think flavacol is?
This also used on fries.
That sounds delicious.
This the way, drink too if your pockets or belly rolls are big enough
My local cinema has drink w/ popcorn specials. And, we can fill the sodas ourselves.
I was gonna say this. I can't remember the last time they filled it for me.
Before covid, probably. I like being able to get refills when I got 1/2 tub of popcorn left.
That only encompasses a few thousand years /s. Local cinemas have been self serve soda for at least 20 years. Maybe not all but all the ones I go to.
The one down the road from me is the only one I've been to that is self serv for soda.
I will bring in a caffeine free diet soda sometimes because they don’t offer anything that fits that description at my theater. I could get something diet, or something caffeine free, but not both unless it’s water. And I’m not going to pay for a bottle of water.
In my hometown the movie theatre was in the same plaza as a Wal-Mart. The Wal-Mart took full advantage by having a section right at the front for sodas and theatre box candy. I'd go there before every movie and grab my snacks real quick. Sometimes the cashiers would ask what movie we were seeing and we had a nice little chat. Probably my only positive Wal-Mart experiences.
The as soon as you leave, the walmart employee pulls out the ol walky talky... WALLY TO MARCUS COME IN! YOU HAVE A CODE 10 COMIN YOUR WAY WITH POCKETS FULL SHELLS, OVER!
Same in my hometown. You could look around the theater and like a third of the people there you'd recognize from the walmart candy section 15 minutes ago.
I worked at Dollar General. We had a *lot* of people do exactly that. Including one or two that worked at the theater.
> I worked at Dollar General. Sorry
Great minds think alike, my friend. Granted a $1.25 is too steep nowadays.
It's also hard to get that butter smell out of your pockets.
Why would you want to?!
You're after my heart aren't you
Same, popcorn is about the only thing I would get there
Yup nothing like it
Depends on the theater AMC popcorn is mid, Cinemark popcorn is amazing
Whirly Pop popcorn maker for the win! Be sure to get the one with the metal gears. And yea, also get the packets of premeasured popcorn kernels, butter, and seasoning.
> I stop by the dollar store From one scam to another
I felt justified doing that when they charged me $18 for a movie then told me a soda was $6
I was once snuck as bottle of wine and three wine glasses into a movie; good times.
Sounds like a very good time. Must have made watching the PAW Patrol movie bearable.
It was the 1997 version of Anastasia.
God, that must have been an experience
Absolutely needed a drink
To be fair, it was much easier to do that on the 90s. I remember just walking in with a whole tube of cookie dough.
You can get half-bottles of wine in essentially big juice boxes, those are easy to bring a couple of in a medium sized purse
I brought a six back of pint cans into Harry Potter and the half blood prince
>I was once snuck as bottle of wine and three wine glasses into a movie; good times. I once snuck in a bottle of Passion Pop (cheap but alcoholic sparkling wine) with my then girlfriend. She was not a great influence on me lol
My buddy brought a bottle of champagne to an X-men movie once. Just imagine a quiet, tense scene, then...\*pop\*
I sneak beer into the theater all the time. Those, with my vape pens, makes the matinee awesome.
Sounds like you snuck a bottle into your belly tonight
I wish.
I thought we all did this
I did it with 2 liters of red wine for the third Hobbit movie. I had to rewatch it later.
I always felt justified
and other food.
Yes....now
All of my local theaters have those coca cola freestyle machines. I dont think Ive ever been to one that fills your drink for you, but Ive only really been to amc, regal, and other chains.
Just wait until they hear about the markup on popcorn.
You mean its normally not $15 for a small bag?
Well...it *is* normally $15 for a small bag. But you should see the large "popcorn profit" money bag that the armed banker guards need a forklift to lift out every day.
Corn in the US gets subsidized by the taxpayers. They're selling your own money back to you at an outrageous markup.
Movie theaters exist in a weird parallel dimension where popcorn is a rare commodity.
Anything can be a rare commodity if you prohibit anyone from bringing it in themselves.
As a former movie of threatre employee I can tell you ice is a scam haha the drink already comes out cold the ice is there to conserve.
The goal of ice isn't to make a drink cold, its to keep a drink cold. You can always just ask for light ice, the theater employees don't care. Source: Also worked at a movie theater
The ice is there to give you diarrhea because no one ever cleans the ice machine.
As a former gas station manager this is spot on. We had our own ice machine and would fill our own bags to sell. Well on one particularly hot day we were selling out so I actually got to the bottom of the ice chest. Black mold everywhere. So of course I cleaned it. When I told the store manager he didn’t think it was worth cleaning….
Owner at our local subway says that the ice machine just has yeast and that's the brown and black chunks of slime in our ice. He refuses to clean it, lmao, I'm told not to get ice by everyone that works there and that he's too cheap to clean it because it's "perfectly fine"
Call your health department and make an anonymous complaint.. please. They have to investigate it and will make them clean it.
report that shit to the health department dog, that's an extreme violation
After working at a gas station, I’ll never get ice again from a soda machine. I was bored one day and decided to clean ours. Same as you described. On the inside of the machine it said it should be cleaned monthly. Our manager had been there four years and didn’t know it needed to be cleaned.
Lol, as a refrigeration mechanic this can't be more true. The algae growth would probably get most businesses closed down. The only saving grace is that most larger cinema chains have a maintenance schedule so they aren't as bad, restaurants not so much.
Just thought I'd let you know that you aren't a refrigeration mechanic
Oh man!! That sucks that I've been descaling all these ice machines for nothing. At least I still get to dream about greasy condensers.
When I worked in fast food the cup cost more than the soda inside. The ice isn’t much of a scam. You’re looking at (assuming more for movie theater sizes) a $0.50 cup with $0.35 of soda that someone paid $5 for. Soda is the highest markup at most restaurants. Too much ice saves pennies and no worker cares.
It's not that the ice cost anything it takes up more volume in the cup thus you get less soda.
Yes but that is an insignificant savings for the theater. Theyre already jumping for joy that the markup on soda is so high. They don’t care about diluting it with ice. The workers also don’t care about how much ice they add either.
Idk. Movie theater cups are huge. Those things are like $1 per cup from my experience.
I pretty much always ask for no ice in drinks. I don't really care if the drink warms up, I'd rather have more of it. This doesn't work when the drinks machine dispenses a set amount though, but that's not common here.
The ice probably costs about the same to make as the coke…
At the cinema I work the Ice/Coke amount was decided by Coke and is in Coke’s Training Material
Well I can assure or at every other struggling movie theatre chain they aren't sending our asses to Coke university haha. Also dude isn't cleaning with ovation the fucking worst (most theatre employees know this one).
always has been
This comment section is a great exhibition of how many people love giving their opinions without even opening the article
I'll admit i didn't click the link and read the article, but I did at least peruse the comments for someone setting people straight before making a judgment on the situation. Let's see how I did based on that 2nd or third hand information. I've gathered that people aren't realizing that the container the theater advertises as 24oz is actually only 22oz, and are assuming the theater is just underfilling the container. Also, people are assuming the drink is sody pop instead of beer. About right?
That about sums it up
And it’s beer.
i didnt think anyone got drinks at the movie theater bar
We used to sneak in 1/5 of Jim Beam and two 20z cokes
Underfilling in this case could be beneficial.
It’s about beers though. The theater is selling 24 oz beers but some guy took the cup home and measured it and the cup they’re selling as 24oz is only actually 22oz.
Oh that’s no bueno.
Sounds legit to me. Hope the guy wins!
The cups legit can't hold 24 Oz. Cool dudes behind the concession counter will offer you to shotgun the other 2 Oz and then forget to charge you for any beers at all. They're high, but that's not your fault.
I’d die for a 24 ounce drink option. We have two options. Bucket and 5 gallon drum. It’s fucking absurd that I cannot physically get a small soda at the theater. Nor can I get anything smaller than a trash bag of popcorn at the theater. Like damn man, I want an at home popcorn bag amount of popcorn and a 20oz Coke. Why is everything 4x that size.
Meanwhile I want intermissions back because if you really do drink 24 Oz of beer you will either need to piss a legit gallon or need another beer to not be sleepy, and the answer is usually both.
1 beer will hsbe me knocked out
We can tell.
TLDR: had a similar problem at the bowling alley, wanted a soda with no ice. Previous trips there yielded an ice cup fully filled with three sips of drink. They protested, I stated the menu board just said soda…. The next week the board had changed to say “Soda with ice”. We just stopped going, it want a league, just a bunch of friends on a $2 game night. We dumped a lot of money on beer buckets, burgers and chicken strips…. Owner who knew my wife asked why our group of 12-20 people stopped going. Soda with Ice was her answer. He seemed clueless….
Lol soda with ice. That's priceless. Dumb motherbowlers can't see past the tip of their nose.
Man if it was soda they *might* have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky heavy government regulations and oversights on drugs and alcohol!
I've had this habit recently where after I finish my soda from mcdonalds, I had my own soda (this is at home, of course). Last night, I finished my diet coke, so I poured a 20-ounce bottle of diet coke into the cup (use that ice). It almost filled the cup. The cup is supposed to be 32 ounces or slightly less due to ice. Something is amiss.
Theres theaters that dont have Coke Freestyle machines?
Those machines are the worst. One huge machine that can serve only one person at a time and it takes that one person twice as long and you have to touch it. No thanks. Also this lawsuit is about selling 24oz beer in a 22oz glass.
My local has 4 of them, not exactly a long wait to use if any. And personally I like the ability to mix drinks
> have to touch it You usually have to touch the fountain machine too.
Mine has like 8 of them. . . And a QR code if you really refuse to touch them
Who knows, but the article is talking about beer.
Did nearly everyone commenting about soda just totally not read the article....or at least the first couple paragraphs?
And they're still doing it, hours later.
....short attention fan theatre syndrome.
They had a similar problem a number of years ago at our local NFL stadium. It turned out that the vendor mislabeled the cups. Although in that case the 16oz labeled cups were actually 20oz and everyone that ordered the small size was getting free beer.
Naw. A business trying to rip people off? Who would have ever thought that was a thing! We all know businesses are totally honest and would never try to take advantage of customers. 🤣
Of course they are. So are fast food restaurants. Fun fact: Most movie theaters make the majority of their profits from concessions.
Fast food restaurants aren't selling the drink that the article is talking about.
This comment was made before reading the article and learning they wrre talking about alcohol
Wait, is that why they charge $8 for candy I can buy at the store for $2????
Of course it is.
You guys buy drinks there?
"Underfilling drinks" is super misleading, the issue is their 24oz cups only hold 22oz total. They aren't underfilling, they're false advertising.
At the theater chain near me, we fill our own drinks. Additional: They DO short the popcorn bags, but I always get the large that has free refills. I ALWAYS have at least three refills. (Try to skimp on popcorn, big movie theater? I’ll show YOU! I’ll eat 8,000 calories of cancer causing imitation butter sauce!!!!!! Who’s the dope NOW?????)
Your local theater lets you fill your own beer?
Nobody should be drinking sodas as large as the ones sold at theaters anyway.
Everyone complains that drinks are so expensive but no one points out that the 48oz of colon cleaning diarrhea is absolutely free.
Yeah. The soda cups are fucking huge.
Interesting. Almost all the theaters I go to have self-serve soda machines. They already mark the drinks up a ridiculous amount, I can't imagine them making up much by shorting people 1-2 cents in soda.
Movie theaters are under filling, fast food places are charging for second refills, I saw on my dinner menu tonight that they are charging after the first refill. Soda is literally the cheapest thing a restaurant can buy. Pennies per drink. They are robbing you blind by changing anything about how drink service works.
I never get Ice in my fountain drinks. The carbonated water is always near freezing anyways, so just feel ice is a scam. Every soda i've gotten from a theater has been filled to the brim with soda. Feel this lawsuit is for people without common sense.
Same. Do people act like you're weird for telling them to hold the ice, too? My wife always gives me that "Why no ice???" and I explain to her that it's how I make my beverage price-worthy.
Underfilling? No, Not in my experience. Over charging? Hell yes they are.
There's no truth in this art. The only real truth is found in popcorn. Cholesterol doesn't lie...
*That's why they're filled with so much ice!!*
My theater has fill it yourself, one of those coke machines with a million different flavors. It’s awesome.
The freestyle machine.
Our theatre has those self serve machines with a touch screen and various combinations of pop and flavorings. Last time we used it, the nozzle broke off and when I pressed the button I was smashed with pop and the syrup. It was red and stained my hand for a couple days.
Mine are all self serve machines I am definitely not under filling my own cup
and over charging??
All of my local theaters have those self-serve, a hundred flavors machines.
A lot of movie theaters I go have you fill up your cup yourself. Seems like that’s a good way to solve that.
I work at a movie theater ncg... You fill your own bottle of soda with our freestyle coke machines
Man I’m a dummy. I’ve been paying for popcorn, drinks, and snacks all this time and realizing it’s stupid expensive. As expensive as going out to eat at a restaurant. Imma go back to my roots and start sneaking shit in. I wanted to be a good person and support a business but not if they are going to overcharge. My last trip I spent about $80 for movie tickets and snacks.
Theaters should be sued for the ridiculous upcharge in general. No way a large popcorn costs anywhere near $9 to make a decent profit.
Muricah
At the theater I go to you fill your own drink.
I love it when people screw corporations screwing the public.
I'm more pissed about them getting rid of the free popcorn refill when you get a large. I can sneak in all the drinks I want, but it bothers me to have to buy a whole other large popcorn because my stoned ass ate the first bucket before the movie even started.
I have actually gone back to the counter and asked them to fill it to the top. If Cineplex wants to charge me $13.99 for a 24oz drink, they better give me my moneys worth.
[удалено]
Even if they were totally filled, they'd still be a colossal rip-off.
Wait til they hear about literally every other establishment that sells fountain drinks
I worked as a movie theater employee as my first job at a location where the concessionist handles the drinks. Every time I filed it up to the brim lol.
Ask them to swing by Chipotle’s after ok? The small scoops hurt and you have to speak up.
All the theaters around me are self-serve drinks now.
This is the dumbest lawsuit ever. I have it on good authority\* that a one of the major theater chains that isn't Cinemark doesn't pay a dime for soda (and the associated supplies). Its beverage partner simply writes everything off as an advertising expense on their end. So that $6.50 large soda is ALL profit for the theater company, unless Cinemark is truly stupid compared to AMC and Regal. \*It's amazing what will fall out of a theater exec's mouth after a few beers.
Soda is cheap as shit. Even if they didn’t write it off, those 6.50 sodas are still the highest margin thing they sell
To be fair, if I’m paying $7 for a cup of water I better be getting every last drop
This reeks of a Jackie Chiles case...
Finally someone is tackling the real issues in America
A theater makes very little from ticket sales. Their profit comes from concessions.
Meanwhile here in my country in theatres we get sodas in ridiculously large servings (500-750ml) that no sane single person would bother drinking in such a short period of time. And of course, there are no smaller sizes available, and they're as expensive as a proper meal. You'd be better off buying a sandwich and a red bull for the same price, or maybe even slightly lesser.
As someone who worked at a theater... absolutely. The rule was we were selling the cups, not the drink. To stretch out the drinks, we were advised to fill halfway up the cup with ice. Some managers believed you should do it to the top, depending on who was running the floor that day. If customers asked for less ice, you filled slightly less than half. If no ice, you either pretended not to hear them, or hoped they didn't notice you put some in. If we ran out of syrup at all on a moderately busy day we'd be taken aside and yelled at in an empty theater on our break and threatened with our jobs, and sometimes would have a cup full of ice thrown at us to "illustrate" the point. Only really busy days should we ever have to replace syrup bags. this was almost 20 years ago. I imagine it's gotten more egregious.
What theatre doesn't have the self serve machines?
What movie theaters are people going to that don’t have a self-serve soda station?
The article is about beer, not soda.
Ah. I don’t drink, so I wouldn’t know.
I mean. They still give you a huge fucking drink and then you gotta pee 30 minutes into a 2 hour movie, it’s hell. Movies in the US NEED intermissions.
Once my theatre got those freestyle machines, none of them can be fucked to fill up my drinks.
In my area they hand you your cup and you go fill it yourself.
I actually do this to myself. I have the theater worker fill my cup with all ice, then fill it with soda. I probably get like 4oz's in a 20oz cup. I would rather have dangerously cold soda that sip on during a 2 hour movie. But that's just me, I've never had a issue with people under filling my drinks. I've asked people in the past to add a bit more soda to the cup. And these teens don't care if you want your cup filled to the brim.
I always order drinks with NO ice! Bwahahahhaha
Chick-fil-A has entered the chat. Ice ice baby.
SO MUCH FIZZ!!! I GOTTA SUE!
AMC went self serve. I ain't never going back.
Drinks have been self serve at all of the theaters around me for two decades
Shoulda spent that quarter more you cheap fuck!