Omniplex cinemas.....disgusting cheap food

Doom

I took the kids to see a Christmas film the other day, very sad to see the omniplex cinemas selling pre-packed nachos and cheese sauce....utter puke....even the guy selling the stuff agreed, this along with turning off the heating has lost them a couple of customers for good.
Thank god there is an alternative these days.

Newcastle1892

Doom wrote: »

I took the kids to see a Christmas film the other day, very sad to see the omniplex cinemas selling pre-packed nachos and cheese sauce....utter puke....even the guy selling the stuff agreed, this along with turning off the heating has lost them a couple of customers for good.
Thank god there is an alternative these days.

Nothing cheap about it

Newcastle1892

Doom wrote: »

I took the kids to see a Christmas film the other day, very sad to see the omniplex cinemas selling pre-packed nachos and cheese sauce....utter puke....even the guy selling the stuff agreed, this along with turning off the heating has lost them a couple of customers for good.
Thank god there is an alternative these days.

Nothing cheap about it

Fr_Dougal

Dear Facebook,

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My name is URL

I seriously can't understand the mindset of anyone that would buy food at the cinema.

Ihatecuddles-old

Cinema popcorn is my weakness

Annasopra

Newcastle1892 wrote: »

Nothing cheap about it

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Mr Benevolent

I bet the OP wears a monocle.

homemadecider

What were you expecting? A cinema is hardly going to have a single plum floating in perfume, served in a man's hat.

Turtyturd

Nothing cheap about it.

My name is URL

homemadecider wrote: »

What were you expecting? A cinema is hardly going to have a single plum floating in perfume, served in a man's hat.

That's the number one reason for the increase in piracy

Fromthetrees

Their popcorn is nice just like every other cinema but if you expect them to have a bakery to cook up batches of fresh nachos daily than I think you're expecting too much from a cinema, oh, and if you think liquid cheese should be of a higher standard than you really need to reevaluate your opinion, it's liquid cheese god dammit, liquid cheese that's kept in a bain marie all day, liquid ****ing cheese, I'm getting nauseous just from the thought of it.

Max Power

And what did the police say?

Mint Sauce

Love cinema popcorn. Half salt half sweet.

yermandan

nothing cheap about it

Rented Mule

Who worries about the heat being turned off in Mordor ?

Shryke

It's pretty appalling considering they're meant to get a lot of their revenue from the gack food they sell. You think they'd up their game. The Eye cinema in Galway has an ice-cream/Ben and Jerrie's and a bar in it at least. I stopped going to the Omniplex ages ago.

Froyo

My name is URL wrote: »

I seriously can't understand the mindset of anyone that would buy food at the cinema.

I can't understand the mindset of people who criticise people who buy food at the cinema.

Cinemas make most of their money from it, I like some popcorn and maybe some ice-cream from time to time, I can afford it, get over it.

Bullseye1

My name is URL wrote: »

I seriously can't understand the mindset of anyone that would buy food at the cinema.

My understanding is that cinemas make very little money from the screening of movies for the first couple of weeks and rely on the sale of snacks and drinks. If that's the case we wouldn't have cinemas if people did not buy these snacks. Maybe the studios should be more generous.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Doom wrote: »

even the guy selling the stuff agreed

Or maybe he doesn't care and was agreeing so you'd stop talking to him.
I do that with taxi drivers... apparently I'm furious about deregulation.

The cinemas lost me years ago when they started doing like 15 minutes of TV ads... that on top of the shítty seats and general inconvenience of it all. I don't know what people see in it.

PhlegmyMoses

I ****ing love the nachos with liquid, radioactive cheese and ****ty jalapenos.

meoklmrk91

Doom wrote: »

I took the kids to see a Christmas film the other day, very sad to see the omniplex cinemas selling pre-packed nachos and cheese sauce....utter puke....even the guy selling the stuff agreed, this along with turning off the heating has lost them a couple of customers for good.
Thank god there is an alternative these days.

In fairness this isn't just omniplex cinemas, all cinemas have have been in have the exact same nachos and cheese. It's sickly stuff in fairness, the cheese crap is just rotten. Popcorn all the way.

Ihatecuddles-old

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

In fairness this isn't just omniplex cinemas, all cinemas have have been in have the exact same nachos and cheese. It's sickly stuff in fairness, the cheese crap is just rotten. Popcorn all the way.

The cheese is amazing. I would drink it if that wasn't seriously gross.

meoklmrk91

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

The cheese is amazing. I would drink it if that wasn't seriously gross.

I think it's lovely on the first few nachos, then I just start to feel nauseous and wonder why I didn't just get popcorn instead.

what the hell!

I'd love if they did unsalted popcorn, I can't have salt anymore and miss the popcorn like mad

Ihatecuddles-old

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

I think it's lovely on the first few nachos, then I just start to feel nauseous and wonder why I didn't just get popcorn instead.

That's why you get popcorn too

Oranage2

Nothing food about it

MonkstownHoop

whatever happened to butter? i know the odeon at the point do it but imc's ive been in dont nor dundrum

krudler

Used to work in a cinema years ago, word of advice, never get the popcorn that isnt fresh out of the machine.

Ihatecuddles-old

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

whatever happened to butter? i know the odeon at the point do it but imc's ive been in dont nor dundrum

Grease ruined the seats! Or something like that...

4zn76tysfajdxp

Doom wrote: »

Thank god there is an alternative these days.

Suicide.

Oranage2

krudler wrote: »

Used to work in a cinema years ago, word of advice, never get the popcorn that isnt fresh out of the machine.

Why

My name is URL

Froyo wrote: »

I can't understand the mindset of people who criticise people who buy food at the cinema.

Cinemas make most of their money from it, I like some popcorn and maybe some ice-cream from time to time, I can afford it, get over it.

Get over what? I don't care how many people are willing to be routinely ripped off.. that's your own choice.

I'd personally never pay for something in the cinema which I could purchase for half the price in a shop next door and easily take in with me. Honestly couldn't care less whether or not selling snacks is how cinemas make most of their money.

Turtyturd

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

whatever happened to butter? i know the odeon at the point do it but imc's ive been in dont nor dundrum

UCI /Odeon won a court case against other cinema chains recently guaranteeing them as the only cinema allowed to sell buttered popcorn....Google it, it's a good read.

Conmaicne Mara

My name is URL wrote: »

Get over what? I don't care how many people are willing to be routinely ripped off.. that's your own choice.

I'd personally never pay for something in the cinema which I could purchase for half the price in a shop next door and easily take in with me. Honestly couldn't care less whether or not selling snacks is how cinemas make most of their money.

Obviously I've never done this, because seeing as I live in a capitalist consumer society I must oblige businesses by letting them financially gouge my arse out, but... On a recent trip to the Eye cinema I noticed that backpacks and bags are now considered a fire hazard and they have lockers to store them in. Very thoughtful of them I thought.

Chancer3001

never get the popcorn thats not fresh out the machine?

ooooooooooooooo K

Excuse me, employee. I dont like that popcorn here in front of me that all these other peasants are eating.

Can you make me some fresh out of your machine.

Its fine. Ill wait.

MrJM

Just get the popcorn and you'll be grand lol.

PizzamanIRL

It's a cinema, not a restaurant.

Overheal

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

Or maybe he doesn't care and was agreeing so you'd stop talking to him.

Or perhaps he's wondering why you would shoot a man, before throwing him out of a plane.

krudler

Chancer3001 wrote: »

never get the popcorn thats not fresh out the machine?

ooooooooooooooo K

Excuse me, employee. I dont like that popcorn here in front of me that all these other peasants are eating.

Can you make me some fresh out of your machine.

Its fine. Ill wait.

exactly, the stuff that isnt sold at the end of the night is lobbed into a big bag and left there until the next day, so you're paying money for day old reheated popcorn, get it out of the machine.

also never eat the pick n mix, I'd tell you why but I think this line is tapped, I never thought they'd find me again

Fr_Dougal

krudler wrote: »

also never eat the pick n mix, I'd tell you why but I think this line is tapped, I never thought they'd find me again

Tell us!

krudler

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Tell us!

pic n mix containers are low down. children are small. and tend to grab handfuls of things and jam them into their mouth before their parents take them out and throw them back in the container.

I saw that happen..a fair bit

Doom

Liquid cheeeeeeeeeese mmmmmm..... jalapeno peppers...:pac:
Listen I chose to pay to see a film...the omniplex used to have regular nachos with heated liquid cheese and peppers and they were ****ing tasty and i chose to pay for them too..now they have these ready to go packs with cheese from some where like Chernobyl , cheap crap in other words

Tar.Aldarion

So the cops knew that internal affairs were setting them up all along?

Doom

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

So the cops knew that internal affairs were setting them up all along?

Boards after hours discussions are turning into a "you can put up a smart comment"....even the Mods are at it....:rolleyes:

Larianne

What was film?

Any good?

Twoandahalfmen

Turtyturd wrote: »

UCI /Odeon won a court case against other cinema chains recently guaranteeing them as the only cinema allowed to sell buttered popcorn....Google it, it's a good read.

Link please ?

Yamanoto

As Kermode says, we've turned our living rooms into cinemas & our cinemas into living rooms.

I go less and less tbh.

the groutch

get something to eat before going to the cinema, simples.
someone would have to be a lardass to not be able to go 2hrs without food.

juan.kerr

Confab wrote: »

I bet the OP wears a monocle.

And a Top Hat, no doubt.

Turtyturd

Twoandahalfmen wrote: »

Link please ?

www.Google.ie