I used to be an usher a while back and cleaning the basic foldy seats are no bueno, especially on kid/family movies— people are slobs. Shrek 2 was the WORST by far to clean up after, and it was in theaters for so long.

I cannot imagine how long and how much work it would take to thoroughly clean some of the recliners I’ve seen.

Coupled with that, nearly every chain cinema near us has cut staff/concessions down to combining concessions and tickets into the same booth/register, and the ushers are a skeleton crew.

They’re looking for a quick-fix/lowest effort draw for an audience and are only halfway there ‘cause uhhh ineptitude or greed or both. And it sucks ‘cause I’d hate to see all of these places shut down.

…although, one of them shut down near us and got bought by a local guy who has spruced it the hell up, so. We’ll see what happens.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I've heard from a few friend's kids that cleaning the recliners is basically easy mode. They're not cloth like the old founding seats so everything just wipes right off.

Dunno if that holds for all, just local anecdotes