# The movie theater never took my ticket, problem?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-theater-never-took-my-ticket-problem/268930 "2004-10-13T01:52:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-theater-never-took-my-ticket-problem/268930/21 "2004-10-13T21:30:10Z")

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Coincidentally, I just came across the following information from John Fithian, the president of [NATO, the National Association of Theater Owners](http://www.natoonline.org):

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> The London-based publication Screen Digest recently completed a sophisticated report on cinema concessions sales worldwide. They estimate that **concessions accounted for 20% of the gross revenues** of U.S. exhibitors in the year 2000. They further estimate that **those sales accounted for approximately 40% of profits**. Those estimates are consistent with our understanding of our industry.

[Link (PDF).](http://www.natoonline.org/UNIC-NATOSurveyUSAnswers.pdf) Bolding mine.

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-theater-never-took-my-ticket-problem/268930/22 "2004-10-13T21:44:58Z")

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My credit card bill online doesn’t have the charge from the movie on it yet, but it doesn’t have our meal afterwards yet, so I’m 99.9% sure that the theater got its money and since the seating system is computerized, I’m sure they know how many people got in to a particular theater.

But I must confess, my friend and I sneaked in Mentos and a Milky Way…

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