Toyota presented the I-Road & at the Silicon Valley Auto Show 2023 on Saturday, 02/18/2023. The Toyota i-Road are fun, powerful and super compact EVs being beta tested in Europe and France. The LQ EV takes autonomous driving to the next incredible level by reading facial expressions and offering to drive.
Toyota Racing Development – SV Auto Show 2023 #SHORTS
Toyota presented the Toyota Racing Development (TRD) at the Silicon Valley Auto Show 2023 on Saturday, 02/18/2023. The Camry TRD in the NASCAR Cup Series finished a great season the track. Check out Toyota Racing.
Shake Shack At Oakridge Mall #SHORTS
Shake Shack opened their first Silicon Valley store at the Stanford Shopping Center in 2018. Their second store opened at Valley Fair Mall in 2020. And now their third store at Oakridge Mall.
I ordered the new Dreamsicle milkshake. Vanilla and orange frozen custard with whipped cream and crushed orange candy sprinkles on top.
The blood orange flavor was quite noticeable at the beginning. The vanilla flavor became more obvious towards the end.
I had the black sugar vanilla milkshake and the chocolate pudding milkshake back in 2021. The Dreamsicle is my new favorite milkshake.
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Blondie’s Pizza at Oakridge Mall #SHORTS
When I was in college in the early 1990s, my friends and I would go up to UC Berkeley to hang out. One place we always stopped off was Blondie’s Pizza on Telegraph Avenue. A slice of pizza and a soda cost five bucks.
Blondie’s Pizza got a new owner who changed the name to Abe’s Pizza in 2016 and changed the name back in 2022. A new store opened in San Jose at Oakridge Mall.
I got a slice of cheese pizza for $5.95, takeout box was $0.50, processing fee was $0.35, and sales tax was $0.64. A grand total of $7.44 for a slice of pizza and no soda.
The days of slapping down a fiver on the counter for a pizza slice and soda are long gone.
The cheese slice I had didn’t taste the same as I remembered it. Since I stopped drinking sodas six months ago, some foods don’t taste the same anymore.
Blondie’s Pizza was okay.
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Blondie’s Pizza & Shake Shack Mall At Oakridge Mall
The last time I visited Oakridge Mall in South San Jose was in September 2020. California allowed stores to reopen at 25% of capacity after the COVID-19 shutdown. I did a walkthrough video of the empty mall and the barren stores.
This past weekend I went to Oakridge Mall to visit two new restaurants in the food court. I got a slice of cheese pizza from Blondie’s Pizza and the Dreamsicle milkshake at Shack Shake. The mall was busy with so many new stores.
Read more “Blondie’s Pizza & Shake Shack Mall At Oakridge Mall”AMC Stubs A-List Program Explained #SHORTS
The alternative to AMC’s Sightline location-based seat ticket prices is the Stubs A-List program. Pay $25 per month to see three movies per week in any format at no extra charge. If you do watch three movies per week, your average ticket price is $2.
Why would AMC give away tickets for the cost of slightly more than one ticket per month?
Movie theaters don’t make money on ticket sales. Studios take up to 60% of ticket sales for the opening weekend and reduce their take over time for a movie.
Movie theaters do make money on concessions. The next time you pay $15 for food and drink, $5 is the cost of goods, $5 is labor, and $5 is profit. Almost everyone buys food and drink at a movie theater.
As a Stubs A-List member, I watched 39 movies for an average ticket price of $8 in 2022
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AMC Signature Recliners For A Dedicated Audience #SHORTS
“Sightline” is a good name for AMC’s new location-based seat pricing. Renovated theaters have the new Signature recliner seats that are wider and more comfortable. They also sit higher than traditional theater seats to have a better “sightline” to the screen.
A renovated theater has half the number of seats found in a traditional theater. With fewer people watching movies, theaters are no longer for the unwashed masses. AMC is catering to the dedicated audience that enjoys watching a movie on the big screen.
Most comments I’ve read about the price changes come from people who haven’t been to a movie theater in decades.
The last movie theater I went to that had “sticky floors” showed two movies for five bucks in an old playhouse in the late 1990s. You can bet that some of the stickiness on the floor wasn’t from spilled sodas.
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AMC Sightline Location Based Seat Pricing #SHORTS
AMC is introducing location-based seat pricing called Sightline. Where you sit inside the theater determines whether you pay more or less for a ticket.
- The Value Sightline seats are in the first row before the big screen. Those tickets are $2 less than the regular ticket price.
- The Standard Sightline seats are in front and on the sides. Those tickets are at regular ticket price.
- The Preferred Sightline seats are in the middle. Those tickets are $2 more than the regular ticket price.
If the regular ticket price is $15, value seats are $13, standard seats are $15, and preferred seats are $17.
The new seat prices are for showings after 4:00 PM in New York City, Chicago, and Kansas City. The new pricing will roll out to the rest of the United States throughout the year. Doesn’t apply to Discount Tuesday or AMC Stubs A-List members.
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AMC Sightline Seat Ticket Prices Explained
AMC Theatres has many different ticket prices. A movie after 4:00 PM cost more than a movie before 4:00 PM. A Dolby or IMAX movie costs more than a regular movie. A 3D movie cost more than a 2D movie. Let’s not forget the discounts for children and seniors.
If that wasn’t confusing enough, AMC is introducing location-based seat pricing called Sightline. Where you sit inside the theater determines whether you pay more or less for a ticket. If you don’t want to pay the extra cost for a ticket, AMC has a program for that too.
Read more “AMC Sightline Seat Ticket Prices Explained”Alec Baldwin Formally Charged in Rust Set Shooting #SHORTS
Actor/Producer Alec Baldwin and Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged on January 31, 2023.
The first charge was involuntary manslaughter. The second charge was involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act. Both charges are punishable by 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.
The second charge has a special gun enhancement that adds a five-year prison term. The jury will decide which charge to use for their deliberations.
Why the double-barreled charges for the same crime? If the jury doesn’t convict on the second charge, they can convict on the first charge. Based on what we know, it’s unlikely that either defendant will be found innocent.
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