Introduction to AMC
The Dubinsky brothers opened up their first theater in Kansas City, Missouri in 1920. The theater showed live plays with on-stage actors and actresses. When the company eventually evolved to use film projectors. This allowed them to show have multiple screens on their premises, and they changed the company’s name to AMC Theatres, which stood for “American Multi-Cinema” ("AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc").
The brothers believed that patrons were to be treated as guests. This belief has held firm in the company’s culture since its inception. AMC prides itself on being a cinema chain that emphasizes the importance as a trip to the movies as being a package experience that goes beyond screen-time. The company’s motto is, “we make smiles happen.” Film crew, the job title used for all ushers, concessions workers, and box office staff, are evaluated on speed, cleanliness, and friendliness in all of their tasks. The founding brothers believed that patrons were to be treated as guests. This belief has held firm in the company’s culture since its inception. The company instills a procedure known as the “ten-foot rule,” where employees are required to smile and say hello to anyone who comes within a ten-foot radius of them. There is an emphasis on strong guest services. In film crew training, there are several reminders to always refer to patrons as guests and not customers. Employees are empowered to make exceptions to standard procedures based on their own judgment.1
The company holds itself as being a higher-end theater than its main competitor, Regal Cinemas. AMC tends to put up theatres in places that are social hubs, such as shopping centers busy areas near major metropolitan markets. This placement is to add emphasi...
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The Orpheum Theater is one of the oldest buildings in the down-town area of Sioux City. Its character and prominence in the city has converted various times over its 80-plus years of being. It began as the state’s only grand theater in 1927 during a time of huge economic growth and prosperity for Sioux City. As hardship and the desire to build new rather than replace old hit the city in the 1960s and again in the early 1980s, the Orpheum’s prominence in Sioux City culture and commerce waned dramatically when it was turned into a crude split-screen movie theater and finally closed in the early 1990s. The patterns of urban growth and decay have had a large impact on the fate of the theater, making the history of the Orpheum Theater an insight into the history of Sioux City.
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