Fantastic Four .... Movies Still ... Suck
Saturday, we were all feeling a little under the weather. So, with a solid lunch under our belts, we decided to try and infect the rest of the town, and went to the afternoon showing of the Fantastic Four. I was quite excited, since we're Marvel stock owners, and fans of the comic book. The boys had no idea what we were going to see (as long as they could see "Fire Man!").After paying $8 each (4 * $8 = $32), we went and got our seats. Mediocre seats (my recliner is nicer), but not bad. Christian decided that then was a good time to get some drinks. He wanted Coke. I wanted less sugar for him. Blaze wanted Fruit Punch. Christian wanted Fruit Punch. Steph wanted Raisenettes. I wanted to save some money. We settled on two drinks (Sprite and Fruit Punch), and a box of candy.
Blaze stayed with Steph, and I headed with Christian to the lines. Our theatre has 3 concession areas. The main one holds 10 lines, in total. On either side of the theatre is another one, which each hold 4 lines / cash registers. How many are open, on a Saturday afternoon? Eight lines, in total. Neither side concession stand was open.
Christian and I got in line behind a rather jovial lady and her child, and then waited. I counted .... there were 19 people behind the counter. It worked a bit like this:
- Each cash register had at least two people.
- Customer places the order. Person one behind the counter presses the appropriate button.
- Person two begins running around like crazy, filling drinks, getting pickles and popcorn.
- Person one taps their fingers.
- Person two is filing drinks, and getting pickles (probably got the popcorn).
- Customer remembers nachos.
- Person one adds that by pressing one button, and yelling at person two.
- Person two runs around some more. Fetches the nachos.
- Person one stands and stares. Dreams of becoming a manager.
- Person two finishes getting together the items, places them into a convenient carry holder.
- Customer pays.
- Person one gives the customer change.
- Next customer is up.
Total time spent by person one doing something: 20 seconds
Total time spent by person two doing something: 8 minutes
Behind all of this was a manager, wearing a suit! He was yelling at the high school kids to get popcorn and pickles faster. Doesn't seem like they're doing something right.
I ordered 2 medium drinks, and 1 candy box. Total spent? $9.75. That's a dinner for all of us at Taco Bell.
The movie started at 4:30pm. We were in line at 4:15pm. I caught the last trailer when we got back to our seats at 4:45pm.
The movie was great ... I enjoyed it. But, do movie theaters really wonder why people don't go much?
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