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A lot of people (me included) won't make it through a round-trip drive plus an entire movie. The bathrooms are non-negotiable. Also, cinemas make almost all of

A lot of people (me included) won't make it through a round-trip drive plus an entire movie. The bathrooms are non-negotiable. Also, cinemas make almost all of their profit from concessions, so if you remove those they're going to have to charge more for the tickets themselves to make up for it. Will people be willing to spend this much?

Robotbeat 7y ago
I read some articles about drive-in theaters last month during social distancing, and they closed the concessions and encouraged people to bring snacks from home. They compensated by increasing the price a bit. Still plenty of takers.
em-bee 7y ago
when entertainment options are limited, people are likely willing to pay more. concessions can be sold drive through style without personal interaction. only restrooms are really a problem
dawnerd 7y ago
Concession income isn’t an issue when the option is not open and make no money/lose money or open and make a little money. Not to mention the smaller ones could qualify for the SBA PPP.
pc86 7y ago
Then don't go. This is trying to give some people some sense of normalcy. If it doesn't work for you, that's fine, don't partake. But that doesn't mean it's a bad idea because a small minority of people can't hold their bladder for 2 hours.
- CydeWeys 7y ago
  It's a lot more than a "small minority" of people that wouldn't want no access to a bathroom for 3 hours (we need to include the drive time, remember). But yes, you could do it safely if you required people to stay in their cars the entire time and provided no services, not even bathrooms. I honestly don't see this being that attractive a proposition to most people though. And I've never been to a drive-in theater in my life, so I don't know about restoring normalcy. Restoring normalcy would be going to a regular theater. A drive-in theater would be a novelty that I'm only experiencing because of the pandemic.
- watwut 7y ago
  It is significantly easier to feel normalcy watching movie at home where I have done it many times. Rather then in drive through cinema you was never in before, sit in car and where you can't go to restroom.
droithomme 7y ago
> The bathrooms are non-negotiable. Do you pee at the grocery store these days too? You couldn't pay me anything to use a public restroom anywhere in the US until we have a cure for this virus. I go to the bathroom before I make a store run. And I make store runs very infrequently, they are very concise runs, I avoid everyone, and I go only during extreme off hours, and I wear an N95 face mask that I heat sterilize afterwards. I also extensively sterilize everything I buy, which takes nearly a whole day to do properly. Things I can't directly sanitize go into a queue in the garage and are not used for 20 days. Going into any public bathroom is an unnecessary risk. These drive in theatre bathrooms should be closed and locked, as should public restrooms in parks. Laws against urinating in public such as in the bushes at a public park should be suspended. Peeing into a cup in one's car should be promoted as a safer alternative to finding a public bathroom. These are all temporary measures but are necessary. Public bathrooms being non-negotiable? Then stay home.
- CydeWeys 7y ago
  I actually did pee at the grocery store a few days ago, but I've already had COVID-19. I probably wouldn't risk it if I weren't already immune, so point taken about avoiding them and making sure to go at home first, etc. I agree that public bathrooms are a risk. When I said "the bathrooms are non-negotiable", what I meant is "I'm not going if there's not a bathroom", and if there's no bathroom because it's not safe, then a lot of people aren't going.
- watwut 7y ago
  Grocery store trip is shorter even as we limited it to once a week, have a lot more to buy and more to wait. Also, we grocery store cause we have no choice. Not be a use we would be seeking comfort and pleasure as in cinema.
LanceH 7y ago
>A lot of people (me included) won't make it through a round-trip drive plus an entire movie. The bathrooms are non-negotiable. Well, if you can't nobody should be allowed to.
- CydeWeys 7y ago
  Nice strawman you've got there. At no point was I saying anything should be banned.
  - LanceH 7y ago
    "The bathrooms are non-negotiable." That certainly implies bathrooms or nothing.
    - CydeWeys 7y ago
      For me. I'm not going if there's no bathrooms. Or I'd just pee outside. Anyway it's academic since I don't have a car, but other people who do would be making these same calculations. Doubt you're gonna take a whole family if there are no bathrooms; you're practically guaranteeing an accident or leaving early.
p1mrx 7y ago
They could deliver diapers to cars. The novelty might be good for business.

Robotbeat 7y ago

I read some articles about drive-in theaters last month during social distancing, and they closed the concessions and encouraged people to bring snacks from home. They compensated by increasing the price a bit. Still plenty of takers.

em-bee 7y ago

when entertainment options are limited, people are likely willing to pay more. concessions can be sold drive through style without personal interaction. only restrooms are really a problem

dawnerd 7y ago

Concession income isn’t an issue when the option is not open and make no money/lose money or open and make a little money. Not to mention the smaller ones could qualify for the SBA PPP.

pc86 7y ago

Then don't go. This is trying to give some people some sense of normalcy. If it doesn't work for you, that's fine, don't partake. But that doesn't mean it's a bad idea because a small minority of people can't hold their bladder for 2 hours.

CydeWeys 7y ago
It's a lot more than a "small minority" of people that wouldn't want no access to a bathroom for 3 hours (we need to include the drive time, remember). But yes, you could do it safely if you required people to stay in their cars the entire time and provided no services, not even bathrooms. I honestly don't see this being that attractive a proposition to most people though. And I've never been to a drive-in theater in my life, so I don't know about restoring normalcy. Restoring normalcy would be going to a regular theater. A drive-in theater would be a novelty that I'm only experiencing because of the pandemic.
watwut 7y ago
It is significantly easier to feel normalcy watching movie at home where I have done it many times. Rather then in drive through cinema you was never in before, sit in car and where you can't go to restroom.

droithomme 7y ago

> The bathrooms are non-negotiable. Do you pee at the grocery store these days too? You couldn't pay me anything to use a public restroom anywhere in the US until we have a cure for this virus. I go to the bathroom before I make a store run. And I make store runs very infrequently, they are very concise runs, I avoid everyone, and I go only during extreme off hours, and I wear an N95 face mask that I heat sterilize afterwards. I also extensively sterilize everything I buy, which takes nearly a whole day to do properly. Things I can't directly sanitize go into a queue in the garage and are not used for 20 days. Going into any public bathroom is an unnecessary risk. These drive in theatre bathrooms should be closed and locked, as should public restrooms in parks. Laws against urinating in public such as in the bushes at a public park should be suspended. Peeing into a cup in one's car should be promoted as a safer alternative to finding a public bathroom. These are all temporary measures but are necessary. Public bathrooms being non-negotiable? Then stay home.

CydeWeys 7y ago
I actually did pee at the grocery store a few days ago, but I've already had COVID-19. I probably wouldn't risk it if I weren't already immune, so point taken about avoiding them and making sure to go at home first, etc. I agree that public bathrooms are a risk. When I said "the bathrooms are non-negotiable", what I meant is "I'm not going if there's not a bathroom", and if there's no bathroom because it's not safe, then a lot of people aren't going.
watwut 7y ago
Grocery store trip is shorter even as we limited it to once a week, have a lot more to buy and more to wait. Also, we grocery store cause we have no choice. Not be a use we would be seeking comfort and pleasure as in cinema.

LanceH 7y ago

>A lot of people (me included) won't make it through a round-trip drive plus an entire movie. The bathrooms are non-negotiable. Well, if you can't nobody should be allowed to.

CydeWeys 7y ago
Nice strawman you've got there. At no point was I saying anything should be banned.
- LanceH 7y ago
  "The bathrooms are non-negotiable." That certainly implies bathrooms or nothing.
  - CydeWeys 7y ago
    For me. I'm not going if there's no bathrooms. Or I'd just pee outside. Anyway it's academic since I don't have a car, but other people who do would be making these same calculations. Doubt you're gonna take a whole family if there are no bathrooms; you're practically guaranteeing an accident or leaving early.

p1mrx 7y ago

They could deliver diapers to cars. The novelty might be good for business.