A survey of preliminary considerations for the establishment of a financially successful professional dinner theatre.

Abstract

Different aspects of founding and operating a dinner theatre will be examined and discussed. Information is drawn from published literature on a variety of subjects from management, business, and theatre as well as results taken from a survey questionnaire mailed to a number of dinner theatres currently in operation in the United States. The prototype of dinner theatres will be described based on the compiled research of currently operating facilities. This model, when combined with financial information, will determine what would be the ideal situation in which to operate such an establishment.