Let’s pretend that you make $10 per hour. What would you do if for one year, you have to live on $1 per hour. You live paycheck to paycheck and do not have any other sources of income. You have eliminated all of the bills you can, but you still have your electric bill and other unavoidable costs. How …
Theaters and the Pandemic
WHY we need help. We have a lot of different ages as fans of the Palace so before we get to the “how” we want you to understand the “why.” If you already understand this, please scroll down to the HOW section. In a nutshell: Grab a calculator and add up what you made in May, June, July and …
A room full of candy!
Picture this: you walk into a hotel conference room full of booths. These booths are full of candy and popcorn and hot dogs and all of the yummy items you could hope to find at a concession counter. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to visit these booths, try the samples, and decide how to work these …
Getting the movie you want at the Palace
We do not pick the new release movies that are played at the Palace. For that reason… if there is a specific movie that you want to see, sometimes YOU need to bring it to us. We get most big releases, but small releases are pretty rare for us. The studios have very targeted areas for their movies and their …
Is this movie appropriate?
Movie theaters are weird. We don’t have any control over the product we sell (movies). Not only do we not have any say in what gets made, we also don’t get to pick what comes to us. We are not well versed in every movie that comes through. We do not get any special treatment from the studio. They do …
Avoid the Sell Out
“Sorry, that is actually sold out…” are some of the worst words you can hear when you come to the movies!! However, we have a few tips to help you avoid the sell out! While we never know if a show time will sell out, very few of our shows do sell out, so it’s pretty easy to make sure …
Why Boycotting isn’t the answer…
How do you stop a theater from showing movies you disagree with? The answer isn’t to stay away, but instead, to show up. We don’t pick the movies we show, so if you want a theater to stop showing certain films, you must cause Hollywood to stop making them. Here’s how and why: Did you know that over 600 movies …
Help! We have a hostage situation.
What would you say if I wanted to open a business with you? I have a great idea. We will make 85% of our money by selling three simple products. Sound good so far? Okay. So. To get people into our building to purchase these three products, we will install extremely expensive state of the art high tech equipment and …
The Magic of Movie *Going*
I missed Fifty Shades of Grey when it came to the theater. It was our first public movie on Valentine’s Day weekend and I was working around the clock fueled by movie theater popcorn, pure adrenaline, and occasional nap like periods of sleep. I wasn’t dying to see it. I was intrigued by the controversy surrounding the film. I was …
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