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Author Topic: Does bottled water sell? Katie Smith Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Aberdeen, OH, USA Registered: Feb 2003 posted 06-02-2004 08:07 PM                     My theater will soon be selling bottled water, the first of anything bottled. The price will be more than a small drink and I assume it will be a 20 oz bottle. I am just wondering how well bottled water sells for any of you? and how do your prices on the water compare to a cup of pop?  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-02-2004 08:27 PM                     ....HUH......!? fjn Local 294 Ret.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 06-02-2004 08:58 PM                        It sells more than the other bottled stuff at my theater. More than Nestea, Minute Maid Lemonaid, and Minute Maid Fruit Punch. We also sale larger bottles of water, I think its a 32oz. The 20oz cost more than our small cup drinks. The 32oz. bottled water cost the same price as our large cup drink.  |  IP: Logged Ky Boyd Hey I'm #23 Posts: 314 From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-02-2004 09:00 PM                       We sell bottled water by the ton in our 5 plex, typically going through a couple of cases a day and sometimes during a really busy rush. Ya gotta love bottled water. It's not sticky when people spill it. It doesn't need carbonation. And you don't have to stock cups for it. I'd say stock up!  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-02-2004 09:33 PM                     440 ml water = $1.60 420 ml coke = $1.40 sells well to mostly women  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 06-02-2004 11:25 PM                     quote: ....HUH......!? What don't you understand?  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-03-2004 12:58 AM                        We sell Dasani (the Coca Cola brand of Bottled water), and we get either $1.25 or $1.50 for a 20oz. bottle. Huge profit item. The warmer the weather gets, the faster it sells... but then, I'm running an outdoor (Drive-In) theatre too.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-03-2004 01:32 AM                        Be careful; bottled water is drug paraphernalia, & selling it will get you shut down under the federal crack house law: "Jordan claimed that the fact that bottled water sold at the Palace's concession stand was "overpriced" was proof that it was in fact drug paraphernalia." http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel043001.shtml  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-03-2004 01:37 AM                        As for Dasani, you'd have trouble giving it away here. There was a massive shemozzle when it emerged that the stuff is processed bogstandard tap water, and not natural mineral water (for example, this story). Things then went from bad to worse following a health scare, and eventually Dasani was withdrawn from sale.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-03-2004 02:28 AM                        We get the 24 oz "Arrowhead" brand bottles from our local Costco, and store it in a (former) bottled juice cooler, which keeps it at around 36 degrees or so. We get $1.50/bottle for it... just about the next best thing to popcorn... blows me away how well this stuff sells.  |  IP: Logged R. Andrew Diercks Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Marion, Iowa (In the middle of everywhere) Registered: May 2003 posted 06-03-2004 08:41 AM                     We sold 7+ cases of bottled water this weekend at my 9 plex. Ours is Aquafina 20oz. and sells for $1.75, our small soda sells for $2.50. Ignore the signature, I was transferred to a new theatre and my profile has yet to be updated.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 06-03-2004 08:43 AM                     Dasani sells great at Lakeville cause people are too posh for the drinking fountain which tastes pretty damn good to me, I've found that the Dasani actually gets a stale taste more quickly once it's been opened. 20 oz: $2.50 1 litre: $3.00 Yes, people do pay that much for it.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-03-2004 10:32 AM                        Up here at the Nugget Theatre in Telluride at the top of the water chain where we have some of the best tap water in the world, we charge $2 for a 20 oz. bottle of Arrowhead water (that we buy for about $.15 each). Mind you, even tho we have free water in a cooler and our water service from the town provides more than 2000 gallons for $2, many people continue to buy water without a blink for as much as they pay for a gallon of gas. Go figure....  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-03-2004 10:35 AM                     $1.75 for a 20. oz bottle water here. Sells like crazy. But stupid Pepsi keeps sending the wrong kind.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-03-2004 10:36 AM                        Up here at the Nugget Theatre in Telluride at the top of the water chain where we have some of the best tap water in the world, we charge $2 for a 20 oz. bottle of Arrowhead water (that we buy for about $.15 each). Mind you, even tho we have free water in a cooler and our water service from the town provides more than 2000 gallons for $2, many people continue to buy water without a blink for as much as they pay for a gallon of gas. Go figure....  |  IP: Logged

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