One thing that people often overlook about movie theatres is that they require heating and cooling. This can represent an enormous fixed cost (on top of staffing and exhibition fees for the film itself), and the larger your theatre is, the bigger your fixed costs and the higher your seat occupancy must be, in order to offset the cost of regulating venue temperature in anticipation of an audience (hopefully large, since you make your only real money off the concession stand) enjoying a film for two hours.
Tivoli Theatre: 1,164 seats
Westdale Theatre: 593 seats
Broadway Cinema (RIP): 437 seats
Empire Jackson Square: 312 seats avg
SilverCity Ancaster: 296 seats avg
Bookshelf Cinema: 140 seats
Relative to their respective cities’ population, the Bookshelf is scaled closer to Westdale than the Tivoli. (If Westdale operated both the Bean Bar & Bryan Prince, you’d have an even closer equivalent.)
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