Is Unlimited REALLY Unlimited?
By AaronYLeung
@AaronYLeung (182)
United States
December 22, 2009 9:55pm CST
So my friends and I are arguing if unlimited is really unlimited? I am talking about movie theaters.
My friend was telling me, in movie theaters that they give you unlimited refills on popcorn and drinks. Yes that is right. Since they dont allow outside food and drinks and they didnt say that you can reuse the containers, my friend WASHES the popcorn box and drink cup and brings it back to the theater and gets refills that way. I say you cant do that even if they didnt mention it but its common sense. You cant bring the containers home, wash it, and bring it back to get refills. IF that was allowed then how do people get paid? Everyone will be doing that and there will be no profit.
Can you do that?
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3 responses
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
23 Dec 09
nope-if they catch him,he'll probably be banned from the theatre.
unlimited usually means "within one visit's purchase".that's like buffets-if they see somebody eating for hours they'll usually refuse service after awhile.
i got to say though,that's original.i'd never heard of someone going that far to get free before.
@AaronYLeung (182)
• United States
23 Dec 09
Exactly! Thats what I told my friend. Its only for that visit of the day. Its not FOREVER....they wont make any profit from that! haha Thanks for the response! =]
Yea I know..I have a weird friend..hahah
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@AaronYLeung (182)
• United States
23 Dec 09
hahaha! I agree with you on that one...he IS creative...too creative for his own good...
@ishme4nowz (679)
• United States
23 Dec 09
I don't really think it's unlimited because it doesn't make any sense. I don't think it's like some fast food places where they just let us take as much as we want. I'm sure they regulate it to some extent, otherwise they'd be losing serious money there. I'm not sure about popcorn but I kind of doubt it for the drinks.
@AaronYLeung (182)
• United States
23 Dec 09
They WONT be making any profit if that were to be true.Exactly. Everyone would be doing it if that was true. I told him its not a forever thing where you take it home and wash it and bring it back. Trash is trash. You throw it away. Haha Siigh weird friend...haha Thanks for the response! =]
@Rose_Ellen (50)
• United States
22 Jan 10
You are not supposed to reuse them generally speaking. I know of one place that actually wrote the date on the bottom of each container so that it could only be used that day.
In actuality though popcorn and soda are so cheap that it doesn't even matter. Most people would not go through the effort even if they knew they could get away with it. They would still make a horrendous profit off of concessions. I don't much mind if people want to take the effort to reuse the containers more power to them. Eventually they will fall apart. They actually will probably fall apart before they get their full money's worth anyway. That is really the profit factor of soda and popcorn.
