Greed In Theater

The sound of the popcorn popping, and the crunching of candy wrappers being opened is the familiar and iconic sounds of movie theaters. Although, if people keep sneaking food into theaters, we may not hear those familiar sounds anymore. We might just lose movie theaters as we know it! Because of this, I believe that sneaking food in theaters is wrong.

First of all, 85% of movie theater’s money comes from the concession stands. The movie theaters don't make a lot of money from the ticket sales, most of that money goes to the movie company, and little is left behind for that theater. The snacks at theaters are outrageously expensive for very good reasons such as money to keep the theater running out of debt. For instance, researchers say that with no money from the concession stands, theaters can go into debt as far as $600 million! Therefor, goodbye movie theaters.
As stated before, theaters can go into debt as far as $600 million. The markup for drinks, snacks, and popcorn went up tremendously since the theaters ticket sales do not produce enough profit. But, not all of the money goes to the theater, they need to pay the employees. Research shows that the salaries of the General/ Operations manager is about $46,088, ect. Adding up all of the salaries of each job, I found out that in total $345,880 is how much money the theater has to pay each week or month to their workers. The concessions help pay for most of the pay. Without the concession stands, the theater goes into debt, possibly close and the workers would lose their