A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived | Stuart Heritage
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Many struggling cinemas depend on sales of pricey food and drink as ticket revenue mainly goes to film studios. But does banning outside supplies really add up, asks Stuart Heritage
  • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
    317·
    1 month ago

    What’s the policy on bringing raw materials and making it in the theater? It’s not technically outside food and is prepared on the premises.

    Thinking a hibachi stove or an electric blender.

      • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
        154·
        1 month ago

        Raw popcorn kernels are not digestible ‘food.’ Oil is not food. Salt is not food.

        Combine. Add heat. Et Voila! Someone complain, bring in bags of powdered chemicals, beakers, reagents, and bunsen burners, and go to work.

        It’s all in the technical margins.

        • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
          19·
          1 month ago

          All 3 of those things are tax-exempt where I’m from, because they’re food

          Worth a try though

          • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
            34·
            1 month ago

            Tax-exemption opens up a whole other promising venue. Hibachi and a chartered accountant at the next movie night.

            This could work.

      • Unreliable@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        If I bring my own food and consume it indoors it is indoor food. If I ate it outside, it would be outside food. /s

      • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        If I had to guess the idea is the food comes to the theater in a truck, too, is that also “outside food”?

        Realistically though I think everyone knows you’re supposed to buy the food in the theater - everything else is people being cute