responding to a pil the bombay high court on wednesday said that the prices of food and water bottles sold inside movie theatres are exorbitant and if multiplexes are prohibiting people from bringing outside food then vendors should not be allowed to sell food inside the multiplexes either responding to this the maharashtra government said that it will soon frame a policy on the issue while moviegoers in the city feel that it is about time that someone put a check on the exorbitant prices multiplexes say that decreasing the price of food items or allowing outside food is not possible as it would hamper their business which is already suffering losses delhiites say that they find it bizarre to drop empty tiffin boxes and fruits at the checking counters but exhibitors add that allowing outside food items also has hygiene issueswithout food and beverages there would be no movie theatre businesstheatre owners say that in their business the money doesnt come from selling tickets but from food and beverages and the intervals are designed to accommodate the fb business exhibitors say that the profit they earn mainly comes from fb sales since they get only 25 of the profit from ticket salesa cinema owner asks wheres the money after deals with distributors production houses taxes and maintenance at the end of it we are not left with any profit the major chunk of our annual profit comes from fb sales not from selling ticketsyogesh raizada corporate head wave cinemas tells us food items in cinemas are not expensive we dont charge only for the food we also charge for the service that we provide however if we stop selling fb or start allowing outside food it would be a huge loss for cinema halls much more than any film floppingdina mukherjee cmo carnival cinemas adds it might lead to a domino effect of increased rates of tickets and associated activities inside the cinema fb contributes approximately 2530 to the overall pie of cinema revenue the pricing of fb is different due to the service and ambience being provided in the cinema currently only 1 of the overall population visits cinema halls throughout the year ticket prices are already steep and if fb rates inside cinemas are brought down the overall affordability of movie tickets might reduce leading to a degrowth in the number of footfalls in the cinemas the impact of the ruling will be on cinemas in maharashtra not necessarily for other statescities should we now allow people to eat vadasambhar or dalchawal inside cinema hallsa cinema owner says there are too many concerns which need to be addressed ab agar humne bahar ka khana allow kar diya toh kal ko log cinema hall mein baith kar apne tiffin box se daalchawal khaenge parantha subzi lana allow kar de koi vadasambhar lekar aa gaya aur usne sambhar seat pe gira diya toh we cant allow outside food for many reasons it is ensured that the food being sold