They have a few drinks, then they hear there's an old movie theater just a block away playing that new western flick with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. They head on over, see the box office that juts into the sidewalk a little, and look to see if anyone's in there.
Nope. Nobody manning the box office. Just a bunch of junk piled in there and a note on the window saying "Please purchase tickets inside."
Not a very good first impression, if you ask me. So what did we do? We cleaned it out.
But that's not a complete solution. A box office greatly lends itself to the experience people get when they visit the theater, especially an old place like this one, and it would certainly be to our advantage to employ that piece of the architecture.
Unfortunately, with a staff of three people and business being down, we can't really afford to put someone in there. In the meantime, however, we've cleaned it out so it looks significantly less like a hurricane blew through. For now, the "Purchase tickets inside" sign will have to suffice. And we don't really want people standing in the cold to buy tickets. It might make them grumpy. That's bad for our tips.