When I first entered the cinema, I read a post on the Internet about popcorn. The general idea is that the cinema where the author is located is counted according to the number of popcorn buckets, which leads to a series of chaos such as employees refilling popcorn with popcorn buckets used by customers and employees pocketing their own money. Some time ago, I saw a user posting a similar topic in the cat's eye of Meituan. The author came to the same conclusion as the last post, and the popcorn in the cinema was at sixes and sevens and shocking. My first reaction was that Meituan Cat's Eye was probably crazy: you make a living from the film industry. Ok, now, in order to increase popularity, you recommend an article that the author talks nonsense and has extreme views to every customer on the APP. Are you afraid of chaos or do you think it's cool to smash your rice bowl with such an article?

When I read the first post, I didn't understand it at that time and couldn't refute it. After reading the second post, I feel it necessary to refute it. One is to let the audience who don't know the truth know the truth, and the other is to rehabilitate popcorn.

My hometown is in the countryside. At that time, everyone who lived in a new house and opened a new stove had to pop popcorn with unshelled rice, so I always thought that popcorn was popped with rice. Even when I came out and saw that popcorn was as big as a cinema, I still stubbornly thought it was still made of rice-just much bigger rice. It was not until I came to work in the cinema that I found that the rice of popcorn was not rice, but corn. Of course, popcorn is not just corn. In recent years, with the rapid development of the domestic film industry, some trading companies specializing in popcorn related supporting came into being. At present, there are two or three large cinemas in China, and most of them will cooperate with these companies in the form of contracts, which are both professional and standardized. The landlord's studio cooperates with one of the largest traders, which has a branch in Shenzhen. All accessories such as popcorn machine, corn, sugar for popcorn, coconut oil for popcorn, and even detergent for washing pots are imported from the United States. All products of traders can provide customs declaration certificate, production inspection and other due procedures and certificates, thus ensuring the safety and hygiene of popcorn products from the source. Because the cinema is a densely populated and mobile place, it will attract the close attention of relevant departments. Since the opening of the cinema, the landlord has been receiving regular and irregular inspections from the Health Bureau, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, the epidemic prevention station and other relevant departments. We will give regular and irregular training to the employees in the studio, and we will also ask suppliers to let their professionals teach. The popcorn machine is not only cleaned every day, but also once a week. In the weekly cleaning, it will remove the filter screen, smoke exhaust pipe, etc., and clean up all the lampblack. There are usually three sizes of popcorn barrels in cinemas: 32 ounces, 46 ounces and 85 ounces. Other specifications are generally not used or rarely used for sales reasons. Even the studio where the landlord is located rarely uses 32-ounce barrels, 46 ounces for single packages and 85 ounces for double packages. That's right. Almost all cinemas count popcorn according to the number of popcorn barrels. For example, if you take out 100 46-ounce barrels in the morning and sell 50 when you close the store, there should be 50 46-ounce barrels in stock at night. This is the main argument of two posts that popcorn is in a mess because of this inventory.

People who don't know seem to really think so. For example, I received 65,438+000 barrels this morning and actually sold 50 barrels-these 50 barrels can be found in the system. Then, at the end of a movie, someone picked up a bucket thrown away by a guest and used it to re-stamp popcorn and sell it. The guest pays the money, but the employee can swallow it himself.

But, but, but, is this really the case? Let's take the studio where the landlord is located as an example. Except for the fixed inventory twice a day (morning and evening), all goods entering and leaving the warehouse are strictly managed, which means that employees can't just go into the warehouse to get the goods. Every time they enter the warehouse to pick up the goods, they should inform the manager on duty and sign it. Every day, regardless of the morning and evening shift, the manager on duty will judge how many pots of popcorn to explode according to the estimated number of people watching the movie or the system. According to the two authors, employees in their cinemas can pick up more than N discarded popcorn buckets and reload them for sale, so as to make money privately. Then I want to ask, if you only sell 50 46-inch popcorn buckets a day, but your employees explode twice as much popcorn, won't your management find out at all?