Should you be allowed to bring your own food to a film?

I only bring in stuff I can't get in there. Like a flask of Jemmy or a bottle of wine.

dodderangler wrote: »

Do you even lift brah?

No, but I'll just do that thing where you go limp in their arms and drag along the ground.

BetterThanThou wrote: »

As far as I know, cinemas make nearly all their profit from food, in fact, I've heard for some movies they even show them at a loss, as they'll make the money back on food/drinks. So for that fact, I personally wouldn't sneak food into a cinema, bar maybe some chocolate or something if I'm already buying popcorn/nachos in the cinema.

Yourvright there, I had to do loads of market research for my business plan this year as it involved popcorn and discovered a lot about profit margins within cinemas. It was reported by a lot of the national newspapers at the time but a study done by the consumer show found that cinemas where making a 700% up mark per portion on regular popcorn. Thats one hell of an up mark! The full article can be easily found through google.

EyeSight wrote: »

how low is the volume in cinemas you go to? I can never hear people munching

Perhaps I go see films where people have dialogue rather than one or two lines punctuated by explosions and gun fire

yawhat! wrote: »

Would you bring your own food into a restaurant?
Would you bring your own beer to a pub?

I'd never bring my own film to a cinema but in saying that I have brought my own wine to a restaurant and food into a pub

MacFeegle you beat me to it !

JaqenHgarr wrote: »

yawhat not sure if you're trolling or not but in a pub or restaurant you generally go there for the food/drink with everything else coming second so by your analogy, the next line would be "would you bring your own film to a cinema" in which case my answer is no, I wouldn't.

But you might go to the cinema for the film but the cinema only stays open to sell you the food. Without the food it isn't worth their while opening the doors in the morning.

I briefly worked in a cinema when I was at uni. On my first day the manager told us at a cinema is essentially a glorified sweet shop. Almost every penny a film brings in they have to pay out to the distributor.

yeah I understand that but to the customers the film is the main point. I usually buy a popcorn when i go to the cinema but I'm not going to pay 2.50 euro or more for a watered down coke half full with ice same goes for a bag of sweets.

I never ever buy food in IMC (Dun Laoghaire is my local), it's such an astounding ripoff on top of ticket prices that seem to be going up every two or three years.. To be fair the cinema in Dundrum has some pretty good deals http://www.movies-at.ie/article.php?sec=MEALS&_aid=2574

Cinema is a ****ing rob, you say they don't make profit on the movie, not my problem i pay bloody enough to watch it, Got a tenner voucher for the Odeon in Waterford at Xmas ticket without anything like 3d glasses or premium seats cost me 11.20 So no i don't feel i need to go spend another ten or 15 euro buying food i paid to watch the film so me choosing to bring in sweets into the movie is fair game imo. Cinema is the biggest rip off going from the food to the price of the tickets i rarely go for that reason. If the price of a ticket was say 8 euro i'd be going far more often.

yawhat! wrote: »

If the pub doesn't sell food and you want to get a takeaway then its grand. If the pub sells proper food and you order a take away they it looks really bad.
Same as with the cinema.

You go to the pub to socilaize and you go to the cinema to watch a film. Same thing really.

see if theirs a perpay card, I go to cineworld, its 5.25 a film if you see one a week.....see more and it gets more cost effective.

cloud493 wrote: »

Seems a bit unfair to me no? Hardly a reason to chuck them out. What do you guys think? I mean even with the warning, its still unfair.

Totally unfair, have no idea if that is a rule at my local omniplex. I'd go on a rampage if I paid upwards of 8 euro to see a movie and I get kicked out for something as trivial as that.

I rarely smuggle in food, if I did it would normally be like a bag of bon bons or something to save me the bother of paying to the nose for them. I would normally get the popcorn there though since it's nicer than anything you would get in the shop, probably because it's 76% fat as somebody told me recently!

One thing I did notice is they made the popcorn containers smaller in cinema's in the last 1-2 years. They used to be huge now they are much smaller, the price is still the same though surprise, surprise. I go to cinema's all over the country like and they all changed their containers at the same time.

This rule against bringing food into the cinema came with the whole celtic tiger/euro phase when all business became greedy.

When I was a kid in the 90's early 00's my mam wouldn't give me the money for food at the cinema even though it wasn't incredibly overpriced like it is now.

Back then I went to the cinema with a bag of bits and pieces, would have had like taytos, popcorn, half a packet of biscuits that hasn't been touched for a week or two and a bottle of diluted orange. What if a kid goes to the cinema with all that gear now. Will they kick them out??