Recline With Wine (Hopefully)

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While you are deciding which multiplex to grace with your presence this weekend, you may want to take this into account: Regal Coldwater Crossing in Fort Wayne now has reclining seats.

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The north side movie complex completed this week a theater renovation that involved replacing all of its old seating with what were described to me as “leather recliners” (although, perhaps the material is more leatherette, leatheresque or leatherish).

Ticket prices will remain the same. There is no extra charge for these seats.

My source at Coldwater tells me that total seating capacity in all the theaters was sacrificed so that the head rests on these new chairs can be pushed back without hitting any knees and the foot rests can be raised up without hitting any seat backs.

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Regal started adding recliners to some of its multiplexes in 2014, according to a story by David Lieberman on Deadline.com.

“We’re all going about this strategic objective of improving the premium experience,” Regal CEO Amy Miles reportedly said at the 2014 Gabelli & Co Movie and Entertainment conference.

In a press release touting seating upgrades at Regal Manor Stadium 16 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Rob Del Moro – chief technical and theater operations officer at Regal Entertainment Group – said, “Regal is redefining the level of comfort at this theater. Our guests will soon be able to stretch out, relax and recline while watching the movie.”

My Coldwater source told me some concessions upgrades are also coming, although he wasn’t sure what those would be.

But a company called Enomatic Wine Serving Systems announced in September 2014 that they’d partnered with Regal to bring something called the Enoline Elite to some multiplexes.

Basically, it’s a wine vending machine that offering “5 oz pours of 8 different wines,” according to the company.

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It seems unlikely that Regal would bring anything like this into Fort Wayne, but a dipsomaniac can dream, can’t he?

 

 

 

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