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Author Topic: Wheelchair seating areas Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-10-2002 09:02 PM                        We have a problem where people (late-comers, usually) tend to sit in our wheelchair companion seating area when we're fairly crowded. This is despite 12" tall "RESERVED FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS" signs on the front and back of those seats. I'm wondering what others do.... Do you kick them out of those chairs even though no wheelchairs are present? Do you let them sit there, but warn them they'll have to move if a handicapped person happens to come in? Or just leave them be? On the one hand, I hate to set a precedent of letting people sit there because then other people will want to follow suit; but, I hate to piss off a paying customer even if he is acting like a jerk. Opinions?  |  IP: Logged Jan Hackett Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Albuquerque, NM, USA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 06-10-2002 09:14 PM                     I let them sit there, but warn them they'll have to move if a handicapped person happens to come in! ------------------ Jan Hackett Theater Operations Manager Extreme Screen Dynatheater NM Museum of Natural History Foundation  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-10-2002 09:40 PM                     I'd say just let it go unless someone in a wheel chair doesn't have a spot to sit. I'd think most people would move pretty willingly. At our theatre transfers are used less than the open spots we have for people to sit in their wheel chairs. Unlike handicap parking spots, handicap seats are not illegal for all to use. At most casinos, there is a sign on a low table that reads something like, "This spot is reserved for our players in wheel chairs. You are more than welcome to sit here, but we ask that you give them the courtesy of moving if the need arises."  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 06-11-2002 02:11 PM                        In Arizona, our signs read that the seats were reserved for "companions of customers using wheelchairs," making the distinction that they weren't for the wheelchair users specifically. We didn't care, or say anything to anyone sitting there unless those seats were needed legitimatly. Its their own fault if there aren't any good seats left in the rest of the auditorium when they get kicked out.  |  IP: Logged

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