Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You - Alcohol

[24KT]

Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You - Alcohol
Wednesday December 3, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff



How about a beer or some wine with your popcorn?

The plan has not been approved by the liquor board yet, but if Cineplex Entertainment gets its way it will soon be allowing its moviegoers to sip a cold one while they take in a movie.

As early as next week, the company hopes to start selling alcohol to its legal-aged moviegoers at the SilverCity in Oakville and the Varsity theatre on Bloor Street.

MADD Canada thinks it's a bad idea.

"Movie theatres, first and foremost, are family places to go to. Most of the movie theatres in and around the city are not in places you walk.You look at them, they've got big parking lots," Carolyn Swinson, past president of MADD Toronto pointed out.

One GTA resident concurred, "I've seen them get pretty rowdy at hockey games and everything else and you'd have popcorn and everything else flying at you. I don't want a bottle of beer or anything like that. I think that's a little bit too over the top."

But, argued Pat Marshall of Cineplex, "This has certainly been a request that we've had from our guests for a number of years. And, already within a number of our theatre complexes, not only in the province of Ontario but across Canada, we have designated licensed lounges that already exist and have been successfully operating without issue for a number of years. This is an extension of the service, only in adult-only designated auditoriums. So there are no children in these auditoriums at all."

Oakville and Varsity already serve alcohol in the lobby and moviegoers have been able to drink in their 40-seat VIP lounges since October 23, when amendments to the Liquor License Act took place.

But in order to serve alcohol in more auditoriums in their theatres, they would need separate theatres for legal-aged viewers. They would also need specially-trained staff and a limit of two drinks per order.

"They must supply a floor plan which shows [the area] is separate and apart from the rest of the theatres where there may be children. And then we do have an inspector go and make sure that the floor plan is as was stated. And of course there are inspectors that would be going there from time to time to make sure everything is operating properly. They would be subject to all of the same rules and regulations that any licensed establishment would be," confirmed Lisa Murray spokesperson for the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario

At this point it's just part of a pilot project. If it is approved by the liquor board, it would run until November of next year.

[Tapper]

It would certainly make the wine skin obsolete anyway.

[Hereford]

wow.  I wonder what it will cost for a bottle of beer...

Ball park pricing!

[tonymctones]

they already have places like this in houston they have one that is a resturaunt/movie theatre. You can order steak, pizza, beer, wine and catch a movie.

[IFBBwannaB]

they already have places like this in houston they have one that is a resturaunt/movie theatre. You can order steak, pizza, beer, wine and catch a movie.

Projector - check.
Awesome seating arraignment - check.
No annoying people - check.
Costs less - check.
Whatever food I like - check.
I can do whatever I like during the movie - check.

Yeah...I think I will keep watching at home 

[Alex23]

they already have places like this in houston they have one that is a resturaunt/movie theatre. You can order steak, pizza, beer, wine and catch a movie.

Only in American...

in the meantime Ontarian socialist tools are debating b/c "there's a big parking lot" and "nobody walks to the movies".


I love this country.

[big L dawg]

they already have places like this in houston they have one that is a resturaunt/movie theatre. You can order steak, pizza, beer, wine and catch a movie.

yep been to those theaters many time's..hard to go to a regular movie theater after that.

[Straw Man]

This theatre chain has a location ~ 2 blocks from my brothers home in Austin.

http://www.drafthouse.com/

Not only can you get beer and food but they serve it to you during the movie. 

[Dan-O]

This theatre chain has a location ~ 2 blocks from my brothers home in Austin.

http://www.drafthouse.com/

Not only can you get beer and food but they serve it to you during the movie. 

There's a place kinda like that in Salt Lake City too--Brewvies Cinema Pub.

http://www.brewvies.com/

[wes mantooth]

yup...there was one right outside of D.C. They would play movies like Pulp Fiction at midnight....getta few beers......

good times

[Alex23]

Jag, why do you post a pic of cineplex odeon? No one gives a shit.

[24KT]

Jag, why do you post a pic of cineplex odeon? No one gives a shit.

You obviously did, ...enough to comment on it and in this thread at least twice so far.
Why don't you show us how much you don't give a poop by shutting up? 

[Alex23]

You obviously did, ...enough to comment on it and in this thread at least twice so far.
Why don't you show us how much you don't give a poop by shutting up? 

Why don't we meet somewhere, let me give you the MILF run of your life and we call it a truce ?

You won't regret it sweetie

[Mons Venus]

Why don't we meet somewhere, let me give you the MILF run of your life and we call it a truce ?

You won't regret it sweetie

 

[Reign Down]

We have this shit in Britain


Have done for ages.


Just means a more annoying audience after they've been on the sauce beforehand.


ta ta!

[24KT]

[marcus]

We have this shit in Britain


Have done for ages.


Just means a more annoying audience after they've been on the sauce beforehand.


ta ta!

Would be nice if the U.S. took a more European approach to alcohol.

[Decker]

We have theatres like this in WI.  They serve any type of booze plus food.  They don't have individual seats, they have couches, recliners etc.

[Hereford]

We have theatres like this in WI.  They serve any type of booze plus food.  They don't have individual seats, they have couches, recliners etc.

They should tax tickets for that venue. Like maybe 60% or more. It's the peoples money, not the theaters...

[Decker]

They should tax tickets for that venue. Like maybe 60% or more. It's the peoples money, not the theaters...

This here is God’s country. My Bible’s for reading my gun is for shooting, and my flag is for waving. You may hate the Bible, guns, and the flag, if you do, I don’t see any walls around this great country, go to China where they’ve burned all the Bibles, taken all the guns (except from the government, millitary, and police) and you’ll get to burn as many red, white, and blues as you want and get applauded for it. I like my rifle, and I like shooting it, guns are for shooting. Simple as that. If you don’t like it then don’t come to my house. I’ve got a weapon more dangerous then any gun, and that’s God’s word.

[big L dawg]

This here is God’s country. My Bible’s for reading my gun is for shooting, and my flag is for waving. You may hate the Bible, guns, and the flag, if you do, I don’t see any walls around this great country, go to China where they’ve burned all the Bibles, taken all the guns (except from the government, millitary, and police) and you’ll get to burn as many red, white, and blues as you want and get applauded for it. I like my rifle, and I like shooting it, guns are for shooting. Simple as that. If you don’t like it then don’t come to my house. I’ve got a weapon more dangerous then any gun, and that’s God’s word.

dumbest thing I read in a long time.

[Decker]

dumbest thing I read in a long time.

I’ll be glad when the next Civil War comes. We’ll wipe out all of you hairy buttloving communists. Then we’ll hang all of your ACLU lawyers when the war is over. The majority of Americans do not agree with that Socialist crap that gets fed to them everyday. When those Socialists don’t get their way they go to their ACLU lawyers, and they say to hell with the majority. Something else I can’t stand about Socialists is that they trample the constitution and they love the U.N. more than America. Their goal is a One World Government that will take control of everyones lives in every aspect. Talk about extreme, take a good look at you!!! I happen to be a part of “generation X” and I’m tired of the image that the media put on me. I don’t think like those Mtv People.

[marcus]

They should tax tickets for that venue. Like maybe 60% or more. It's the peoples money, not the theaters...

[big L dawg]

I’ll be glad when the next Civil War comes. We’ll wipe out all of you hairy buttloving communists. Then we’ll hang all of your ACLU lawyers when the war is over. The majority of Americans do not agree with that Socialist crap that gets fed to them everyday. When those Socialists don’t get their way they go to their ACLU lawyers, and they say to hell with the majority. Something else I can’t stand about Socialists is that they trample the constitution and they love the U.N. more than America. Their goal is a One World Government that will take control of everyones lives in every aspect. Talk about extreme, take a good look at you!!! I happen to be a part of “generation X” and I’m tired of the image that the media put on me. I don’t think like those Mtv People.

WOW!

[Decker]

WOW!

I'm starting to cutnpaste actual letters from other websites.  These rightwing weinies are nonstop entertainment.  Here's another:

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http://rackjite.com/web/hate_mail_archive.htm