What's with Pop corn and Cinema?

[Heatman]

I have been observing this for a while and I can't help it asking out. What's with pop corn and cinema? It's like the most sold food at the cinema.

 

[Moonface]

Cheap to acquire by the theatre, easy to make a profit on it and it comes off as good value when you get a huge bucket of it that looks like it will last an entire movie as a snack item.

 

[StarbucksCoffee]

I think it is also about how it’s marketed. I mean.. look at most cinema advertisement, it always has popcorn.
There’s a Starbucks in the cinema I often used to go to in the Netherlands, and even Starbucks advertised it.

Personally I like the sweet pop corn, but I hate those thingies that get stuck between your teeth, or make you cough.

 

[Katrina]

Popcorn has been sold at the movie theaters for over a hundred years and the story goes that vendors were outside the building selling popcorn as people went inside. The movie theaters didn't like that and decided to sell their own and forced people to stop bringing in their own food. Now it's like $20 a bucket for popcorn that probably costs a dollar to make.

 

[Moonface]

Now it's like $20 a bucket for popcorn that probably costs a dollar to make.

That's because concessions are the only way any cinema really makes money. Movie tickets barely generate any profit for a cinema by the time all the necessary fees and percentages owed by the cinema for showing the movie get taken out.

 

[Katrina]

That's because concessions are the only way any cinema really makes money. Movie tickets barely generate any profit for a cinema by the time all the necessary fees and percentages owed by the cinema for showing the movie get taken out.

If actors wouldn't make millions of dollars per film then the theaters could make money off the tickets instead of swindling us through the high cost of food.

 

[Gizmo]

Cheap to acquire by the theatre, easy to make a profit on it and it comes off as good value when you get a huge bucket of it that looks like it will last an entire movie as a snack item.

I can go through half a big bucket during the ads/trailers at the start as they go on forever ... 😛

 

[Moonface]

I can go through half a big bucket during the ads/trailers at the start as they go on forever ... 😛

They do go on for a while. On the bright side, it gives you a good grace period if you're running late! 😛

 

[MrDawn]

I have been observing this for a while and I can't help it asking out. What's with pop corn and cinema? It's like the most sold food at the cinema.

I know right?

I would prefer to eat a 16 oz sirloin, corn, and green beans through the new Thor movie that's coming out.