Chapter 1149: Ten Years Without Regrets
"What a bunch of trouble-seeking guys who want to vote to go to the polls and vote in my movie theater!" After scolding and driving away the staff who came to promote the installation of ballot boxes, James, the owner of the Metropolitan Cinema, was still there swearing.
Then this James called another friend of his own, saying that he had rejected Daqian very simply, and the other party should remember to invite him to dinner.
In fact, even if the people of the Supreme Presidium do not interfere with it, James is unwilling to put the ballot box in the movie theater, the answer is simple, it is too troublesome.
Although the installation of ballot boxes and monitoring equipment, as well as all the voting forms, are in charge of Daqian's people. But the theater is responsible for supervising the ballot boxes and distributing ballots to all audiences, so there is always a need for staff.
Although the people of Daqian said that they could be responsible for making a small modification to the back of the chair, adding a small pocket where the form could be placed, while also providing a ballpoint pen strapped to the seat for writing.
However, it is still inevitable to use the labor cost of electric theaters.
The most odious thing is that Daqian also asked for at least 5 minutes of lighting time after the end of the film, so that the audience can score on the table, these 5 minutes does not seem to be a long time, but more than a dozen shows a day are put together, and it is about an hour.
Although each movie has a transition time of about 10 minutes at the end of the transition.
All in all, these ballot forms would add unnecessary trouble to the operation of the theater, and James certainly couldn't agree to the entry of these forms and ballot boxes.
The most odious thing is that the staff member also threatened that there are only 3 voting theaters in each city, and if they miss this qualification, they will have to wait at least a year or more.
This made James angry, and the nose of the staff member he was referring to at the time scolded, let alone a year, even if it was 100 years, he would never let the ballot box into his movie theater.
Finally, Daqian's staff left and never came back, which made James very satisfied, but the next day, when James was inspecting the movie theater, he found that someone was actually going through the refund procedures at the counter, which immediately made James angry.
It's not easy to do business these days, especially now it's not the peak season of weekends, but ordinary weekdays, at this point in time, customers are precious, how can the counter let customers refund tickets?
And the refund is to charge 20% of the refund fee, and the other party would rather lose 20% to refund the ticket, which is obviously very dissatisfied with their work!
So James immediately walked up enthusiastically and asked the customer with a smile on his face, "Dear sir, is there anything you are not satisfied with about our service?" ”
Then James glared at the counter staff viciously, and if the customer said something wrong with the service, he would immediately deduct $10 of the work of each person at the counter as a compensation for the loss of a customer.
"No, no! Your service is very good! I didn't expect this customer to say, "It's just that I don't have what I want, so I want to refund the ticket!" ”
"It can't be!" James immediately exclaimed, "Our Metropolitan Cinema is one of the best cinemas in the whole of Columbia City, what all Columbia Cinemas have, we all own, how could there be no what you want here?" ”
"Yes! That's what I thought, after all, I've always been watching movies in your cinemas, and I'm a loyal customer of yours! The customer also said with great regret, "But I just asked your front desk, and they said that you don't have a ballot box here, so you can't vote, but I remember that the newspaper said that there are three movie theaters in Columbia City that can vote, so I can only go to the Mandorf Cinema next door and ask." "One-eighteen
"What ballot box?" James was stunned for a moment.
"It's the vote for the Imperial Capital International Film Festival that has been frantically reported by the news media and newspapers recently!" The customer immediately said, "I'm the one who likes movies the most, and every time I watch a movie, I have a lot of ideas, but unfortunately I didn't have a chance to vomit." This world has never really given us ordinary moviegoers a chance to evaluate a movie. ”
"Now that I have finally met such a film festival, an opportunity for us ordinary film fans to speak, I will definitely support it!" When the customer said this, the people even got a little excited, and then he said goodbye to James and ran to another movie theater next door to ask.
"A madman......" James shook his head, a hint of uneasiness in his eyes, as if only by clicking on the other person to become a madman could he make up for the uneasiness in his heart.
Then James added, "A rare madman in all of Colombia!" ”
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After leaving the Met, Sam went to the Mandorf Cinema next door, but unfortunately, the cinema also did not have a ballot box.
Just when Sam wondered if it was a hoax, he saw the latest "Rice Movie Weekly" in a newsstand near the movie theater, with a list of the first voting theaters for the Imperial International Film Festival printed on the headline.
Sam bought the newspaper and found that there was a whole page with the names of many movie theaters printed on it.
Although the entire page has been printed with the name of the movie theater, but the font is relatively large, so the actual number of movie theaters is not much, the entire United States is estimated to be about 200 only, and found the list of movie theaters in Columbia, and found that in the huge Missouri, there are only three movie theaters that are eligible to vote, and Columbia City has only one movie theater.
"Obviously, the news says there are three!" Sam shook his head, then said, "But yes, there can't be too many theaters with ballot boxes, after all, it's a lot of money to put the ballot boxes!" ”
Sam explained to himself.
However, this explanation is wrong, originally Daqian planned to install 1,000 voting movie theaters in the whole country, and Columbia City, as one of the famous cities, also has three movie theaters.
As for the ballot boxes in all the movie theaters, Boss Jia himself never thought about it, after all, the manpower and material resources required are too great, and it is too much toss.
And according to the rules of voting, the result of 10 million votes and 1 million votes may be the same.
If an audience wants to vote, then he can go to a movie theater where he can vote!
It's just that because of a certain presidium and the troublesome relationship between most of the movie theater owners, the original plan of 1,000 movie theaters could not be achieved at all, and in the end, Boss Jia used his relationship with Fox Group to let most of the movie theaters under Fox undertake the task of installing ballot boxes.
Of course, there are a very small number of movie theater owners who agree to the installation, such as the Chinatown movie theater in front of Sam's eyes.