Fairfax theater owner Mark O'Meara has started a curbside concession stand.
Now that both of his theaters have temporarily gone dark due to the coronavirus crisis, O'Meara is still doing what he does best: serving popcorn, and trying to ensure that his customers and his workers are taken care of. Cinema Arts isthat it would've been showing on its six screens—it gets half the money from the purchase of each in-home screening—and the University Mall Theatre is currently selling bags of large popcorn to go.
If you wondered who might be outside, hand-delivering those bags of what the theater calls "the best popcorn in the known universe," well, we'll give you one guess. O'Meara has been working the curbside concessions stand too, because he's worried about what will happen if he can't pay his employees. "I have a lot of kids working here that make a living on a shoestring, and I can’t pay that well,” O’Meara.
Last Wednesday, the National Association of Theatre Owners asked Congress to provide emergency relief and tax benefits., more than 150,000 people work in the movie theater industry, a number that includes everyone from ticket takers to concession stand workers to the polo-shirt wearing staff members who have to sweep up all the spilled Junior Mints after each screening.
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