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I have coffeee often in a Food Co-Op that is the largest in the State of Maine...... it's kind of a cross between a gourmet and natural foods with wines, etc. kind of place. If you like tofu or fine champagne it is your kind of place!

This moring I renoticed that they sell a good sized twist tied plastic bag full of popcorn with herbs and spices on it and it was for 7.99! I would say it was 2 or 3 times as large as our large bag. It made me think: geez maybe we should do a bit of this..... "Take home a bag!" We have the corn, the public, and the staff! Do any of you sell corn like this?

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That sounds like a great idea. As a customer, I would like it "fresh from the popper", so I wouldn't pre-package it. But offering to sell fresh theatre popcorn in a take-home bag might be popular.

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As a Main Street kind of place we often get people who stop by for a bag on the way home, etc. but we never really tried to expand it out. I was thinking more about expanding the use of our popper.

Had lots of people stop in just for a bag o corn.

Selling popcorn to go? I personally wouldn't buy popcorn to go because that would take away from the theater experience. When I go I like my buttered tub, its become a tradition, and to be able to take it to go, for me is not an option.

I can see people walking in off the street to buy your popcorn because theatre popcorn is good and its not quite the same from anywhere else.

It could work I suppose, but not for me.

Being fairly new here--I was going through archives and had to respond to this one.

I have theatres in small towns--I have really pushed selling popcorn to anyone--and on a slow night I still end up with a good deposit because of the "take-home"--It has never interferred with eat-in, and the people who do buy take-out seem to buy the bigger sizes when they do come to the show--because they know it is good

forgot to mention--during parades or other "downtown" special activities, we literally sell hundreds of pounds out the door--I open just special for concessions, even if no matinee playing--as matinee would be empty at that time anyway

We sell Popcorn at a remote station near the entrance at one location to satisfy customers from the local video rental store located at the other end of the shopping complex.

Greg Borr
Ready Theatre Systems