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Author Topic: Looking for employment information Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 11-06-2006 05:39 PM                     What I am looking for right now is information. My wife and I worked together managing I-70 Drive-in in KC, and left the business after 8 years of managing. We have decided that we miss the movie business, and would like to get back into theatre management. My question is what theatre chains in Florida allow, or better yet prefer Husband-Wife management teams. AMC I know in KC didn't really like couples to both work for AMC in any capacity.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 11-06-2006 06:32 PM                        UDITOA convention is first week of Feb in Orlando area; many owners are approaching retirement age. Visit and see if anyon has a job or work to own deal. Louis  |  IP: Logged Ross Oba Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Kailua Kona, HI Registered: Oct 2005 posted 11-06-2006 06:45 PM                     Not to be a hardass, but this probably should go in the Employment forum. Employment forum  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-06-2006 07:56 PM                    quote: Ross Oba this probably should go in the Employment forum. quote: The Employment Forum Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Do you have some job positions to fill? Are you looking for employment? Post here. quote: Joe Elliot What I am looking for right now is information. I think he's in the right forum. Welcome to Film-Tech, Joe. You're right, AMC frowns on husband/wife teams generally, although I have seen husbands and wives work at different theaters within AMC. You'd probably almost have to be a theater owner to both work at the same theater.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 11-07-2006 12:58 PM                        Yeah, speaking from a Loss Prevention stand point, most corporations likely frown on the husband-wife team. Finding a nice Mom & Pop organization would be your best bet, or an independent that just wants a competent manager. One of the managers that worked for me was hired and we later found out it was his wife who really ran the theatre. That was more than we bargained for.  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 11-07-2006 05:01 PM                     Yes, in our chain in KC, a couple of the theaters were like that, the wives actually ran the theater (in one case, it was better that way). Most of the theaters it was more of a joint management, with the husband having the last say. It has it's ups and downs. You both get the credit for anything done well, and you both take the blame for anything done wrong. At the drive-in since you were spending as much as 70 hours a week at working in the summer, it was the only way to spend time with your spouse. We want to start our own chain, but we are not ready yet, and it is always better to make a lot of local contacts. I know the theater chains in KC all owned part of each other. Of course thats where AMC, Mid-America Cinemas(now gone), Crown (that was the other one started by the other Durwood brother right?), and Dickinson Theatres all started.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-10-2006 09:31 AM                        quote: Scott D. Neff we later found out it was his wife who really ran the theatre That's how we do it at our place... but don't tell anybody. I'm pretty much the voice and face of the theatre to the genral public, but my wife actually does the moving of the puppet strings. Her full time day job is running the business-end of our drive-in, while I work for a civil engineering firm during the day. In the evenings, I do the "physical" part of the drive-in stuff, everything from building prints, selling conessions, mowing grass, and plunging toilets. We're getting ready to have baby #3 (probably next week) and I'll be taking over the books and business operations of the drive-in while she's recovering. She's more scared of that than she is having the baby! One thing we learned real quick as independant theatre owners... "The movie business is alot more about business than it is about movies". As far as the husband / wife tag-team managers.... I doubt I would go for it. I know a drive-in owner up east who had a heck of a time with a manager he hired that ended up being an un-beknownst "package-deal" of the manager, his wife, and their daughter. Took him awhile to recover from that.  |  IP: Logged

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