![]() ![]() In 1948, Michael Redstone opened the Revere Drive-In. National Amusements has operated in Revere for 51 years. One practice they now have that gets on my nerves though is that they are leaving the doors to each cinema open during the show it was quite disconcerting to be watching No Country For Old Men and hearing the music from Sweeney Todd next door wafting in every now and then…I did bring it up to someone, but the practice is still going on, particularly if as I said above you’re in one of the smaller theaters on each end of the far halls… So for us, Showcase Revere is a great place to see a show, even if they stick you in one of the smaller theaters. ![]() Many of the employees recognize us and our friends, and several of the ticket takers and snack bar personnel know we talk them up on our podcast and our site, and always go out of their way to give us good service. ![]() Perhaps they should devote these screens to coming attractions or (shudder) even ScreenVision, which is infinately better than being subjected to the likes of MSNBC at 10 am.Īll in all, though, most of the employees are friendly, though they don’t always respond in the best manner (complaints about the Kung Fu Flix series went unanswered one evening when one of the movies was showing in Chinese with NO Subtitles)but they try. The new waiting lounges which opened this past summer where the old snackbars used to be at the end of each hall are nice, but they usually have a news channel on the tv, which isn’t hte best thing, particulary if you’re there with little kids early on a holiday or a weekend morning and the anchors are talking about things that little kids have no interest in. And then they bring you just the food, no napkins, no condiments, no straws, unless you ask for them as part of your order, which is kind of silly – you’d think that would be common sense. ![]() They clearly don’t want you to order from Chatters, only from the snack bars. The Directors Hall’s are nice, but the wait service in those halls leaves a lot to be desired. But that was the ONLY bad experience we had at Chatters, and we’ve been there a number of times. We all complained to the main offices and got freebies for a future meal. We waited for almost an hour, unable to get the attention of the other waitresses, many of whom were serving customers who had arrived long after we did, before we finally got up and left. The waitress came, got all huffy when she realized we weren’t ordering from the bar, took our food order, took almost 15 minutes to bring us our drinks, and then never returned to our table. We had a very nice waitress and she made sure we had our food and drinks at our table with enough time to down them and still make it to the theater in time for the coming attractions.Ĭounter that with the following weekend: when we went to see Iron Man, we got there with an hour and 10 minutes to spare. Here’s an example- when we went to see Forbidden Kingdom this spring, we had 35 minutes to spare before the show, but wanted real food, so we went to Chatters. The revamped food court is better than what they used to have, and Chatters is an absolutely FANTASTIC place to have a quick meal before a movie, most of the time… I have to say when they began renovating it in 2007 I was worried that it would get too “upscale” for this mostly blue-collar town, but those worries have been unfounded. We consider Showcase Revere our “home theater” since it’s only a ¼ mile from our house. ![]()
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