[weegee]

So what's the difference between this and movie theater's?

You can buy a Big Glup for $0.50 but it's $5.00 if you see it with the Matrix.

The theaters don't make their money from the movies (upwards of 90% go back to the distributor). They make their business on the concessions.

It's still only a nickel's worth of syrup regardless of what they price it at. Notice how they upsell popcorn and soda by offering free refills on the largest sizes only. It would seem that they are "giving away" more snacks this way cutting into profits but since the raw materials are dirt cheap, they win in this transaction.

Baseball teams make their money on the tickets, licensing deals, and concession contracts. The stadiums are publicly owned and while there may be a clause for maintainance, some team owners don't fullfill this part of the bargain.

Here in Houston, the owner of the team got the stadium rental for a nominal $1 fee and got additional revenue from renting the venue out for concerts.

I don't know of city owned movie theaters.

[M. Peach]

You beat me to it....What's your source?

[neb52]

Ha! us A-towners can do better. Try building a taxpayer funded staduim then turn it over to the team for FREE!! years before the taxpayers are done paying for it. This was the only beef I had with Bush back then. He and his partners got a free staduim for the Rangers then turned around packaged it with the sale of the team to Hicks. Actually I can't be mad at Bush for this, it was quite the business pull-off of the century. Its those idiots we had for City Councilmen/women who sold our city out every turn. We finally booted most of them out of office this past spring.