Call it a movie theater that serves food or a restaurant that shows films.Either way, an Arizona company plans to bring one of the entertainment industry’s hottest concepts to Colorado Springs next year when it opens the city’s first dine-in movie theater in a now-shuttered Kmart northwest of Fillmore Street and Nevada Avenue.RoadHouse Cinemas, which has similar venues in Scottsdale and Tucson, plans to remodel a portion of the old Kmart to accommodate a 12-screen complex where movie-goers can order burgers, pizzas, tacos, sandwiches, pretzels, cocktails and desserts from their luxury recliners. The food and drink — ordered before the movie starts or even as the film runs — is served to them while they watch first-run hits and throwback classics.“It’s the whole experience of the recliners, of ordering at your seat, of being served at your seat” that makes a dine-in theater special, said Scott Cassell, RoadHouse’s director of operations. Business Construction begins on first Raising Cane’s restaurant in Colorado Springs Rich Laden “People generally go to the movie theater closest to where they live,” he said. “A dine-in movie theater, it becomes a destination location. People will actually drive by that (neighborhood) theater, and they do it in… Read full this story

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