New dine-in movie theater opening in Chester, complete with 75-foot screen | 8News

Chester, Virginia (WRIC) —

Known for its unique dining cinema experience, it will open its newest and largest business location in Chester on Friday.

This 45,000-square-foot venue will have the largest screen to date in the Virginia Theater Chain-75 feet in ImmersiveX format, and will be equipped with

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"This is a complete restaurant service in the entire movie," said Caitlin Walker, director of marketing for the cinema cafe. "You sit down, and each seat has a table where you can order and drink-from popcorn, candy and soda to burgers, pizza, chicken wings and desserts, all the way through the movie without having to get up from your seat Sit once."

Buttons between theater seats allow moviegoers to call the server to pick them up

. In addition to American cuisine, Cinema Cafe also offers a premium bar, offering a variety of beers (including local beers), wines and signature cocktail menus.

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Or at the theater when the guest buys tickets.

Walker said: "Each party has two seats blocked on either side of them to achieve this social isolation." "In addition, the spacing between each row is 7 feet or more, so there is enough space. Come relax and be comfortable, and make sure you are a little further away from other guests than the previous concept."

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She said: "As a dining concept, we are a restaurant, so we have developed a sound agreement to clean and disinfect between each performance and throughout the day, and we have improved on this." It may be cleaned up in the theater between each performance; now, we have to disinfect every seat, disinfect the entire building at the end of each day, and inspect it when we come in."

Anyone 2 years or older also needs to wear a mask when not eating or drinking. There is also a manual disinfection station throughout the building.

Each location of Cinema Cafe is not only consistent in health and safety precautions, but also similar in layout and design elements.

"Our founder and his partners have been movie fans for a long time," Walker said. "At Cinema Cafe, we have been movie fans for a long time. We have hired movie fans and we really want to prove this in the design and aesthetics of the buildings currently being built."

John Walker is the CEO and founder of Cinema Cafe. Walker is a native of Virginia Beach and has been in the entire Commonwealth of Nations (including

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"Chester and surrounding areas

John Walker said. "The staff are trained, the kitchen is on, the projector is on fire, and we are ready for entertainment. We know we are going to deal with this pandemic, so we are slowly and safely relaxing this opportunity."

There will be two new versions for the premiere on Friday-

-And family movies and smaller movies that have not had a chance to shine on the screen recently.

Caitlin Walker (Caitlin Walker) said that Cinema Cafe has been introducing new products provided by film studios to chain stores, but the owner also hopes to bring holiday classics.

"We are committed to ensuring that our community can have a safe place and an interesting place, and we will remain open as long as we can provide a little escape, an affordable escape. People can still have it in this crazy time ,"she says.

Even if other cinemas are closed, Cinema Cafe is committed to opening a new venue in Chester. Construction of the building began in July 2019, and the theater was originally scheduled to open in early 2020.

"Great people in Chester and the surrounding area have been looking forward to this location for almost two years. Although we have slowed down during this period, we do want to enter here and bring a little bit of entertainment that is urgently needed." Walker said.

Tickets start at $5.50 each.

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