Why in the USA movie tickets do not indicate the place

Do you like going to the cinema? It’s clear that today you can almost watch everything through the Internet, but in cinemas a special atmosphere and, of course, the unique taste of popcorn that you won’t do at home, writes in his блоге Sergey Kurylenko, who moved to the USA.

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There are several interesting features in American cinemas that distinguish them from Russian ones.

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In the era of the Internet, many book tickets online, but there are those who buy them on the spot. In large cinemas, instead of the box office there are special terminals where a person chooses a movie for himself and pays for a ticket.

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In small ones there may be only 1 cash desk and they don’t even show which seats are free. Moreover, the seat is not even indicated on the ticket itself. Where should you sit then, you ask?

Everything is very simple here: since the place is not indicated, then you can sit on any free space. Such a system is used in almost all cinema halls with rare exceptions.

Why did so

Perhaps because Americans love and value freedom so much.

Another reason - there are not so many people who go to the cinema, but in large cinemas, where there can be 15 halls at once, there are enough seats. Cinemas in the United States simply no longer enjoy the popularity that was before or is now, say in Russia.

Although of course there are separate films that people are good at, but it happens far away for every day.

By the way, if you remember our box office in cinemas, where the monitor shows you empty seats, you will notice that the outermost seats and the seats in the back are in the least demand and are the last to be redeemed - and then only if there is no other choice.

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The situation is that the hall is not full and the seats are idle in vain, and this is already a loss.

If a person does not know which places are occupied and which are vacant, then he has an incentive to come early. So whole lines of people who want to take the best places are gathered, but not everyone will get them.

It turns out a kind of lottery, where all tickets are sold out, the cinema has remained in the black, and some of the viewers have got that very unpopular place on the edge.

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