In the theater, for example, most of the food is handheld. Movie & Dinner's Middle Eastern platter, served in the restaurant.īoth menus are expected to change and evolve to meet customer demand and preferences, as well as to logistically work in a kitchen that's essentially cooking for a 600-seat restaurant when all tables, theater seats and the lounge are accounted for. Traditionally plated entrees and appetizers are served in the dining room, while the 'dark menu' offers more casual, theater-friendly food for customers ordering from their seats. On the food side, Movie & Dinner offers two separate and somewhat overlapping menus. 'We emphasize the food, but even if you want to see just a movie and not order the food, we think it's the best exhibition in the country,' Jacobson continues, referencing the seating configuration - there are 'no bad seats,' he adds - and the high-quality audio-visual technology in each auditorium. Movie & Dinner is the first venue of its kind for the company, and one the Jacobsons plan to replicate in other cities. The father-son duo own and operate CineGenesis, a Kansas City, Missouri, based cinema consulting firm. We characterize ourselves as a restaurant first, with auditoriums,' says co-owner Spencer Jacobson, who opened Movie & Dinner with his father, Larry Jacobson, after being approached by Northern Quest about adding a theater to its resort amenities. 'You hear a lot in the industry of expanded concessions, and we're realizing how important the food element is. The new restaurant-cinema hybrid serves food not only in its attached dining room and bar, but also straight to cinema-goers' cushy auditorium recliners.

Movie & Dinner, the newly opened eight-screen theater at Northern Quest Resort & Casino in Airway Heights, eliminates some of the stressful decision making that can arise when planning a classic dinner-and-a-movie date night: To eat before or after? Where? What if the restaurant is really busy - will we make our showtime?

At the Inland Northwest's newest cinema complex, hungry filmgoers don't have to rely solely on popcorn, soda or sugary concessions to sate their appetites through a two-and-a-half-hour blockbuster.

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