Omniplex are reported to sell 5.5m cinema tickets per year. This includes weekly live show from New York's Met Opera, The Bolshoi Ballet and music concerts. Īs well as screening films Omniplex cinemas also show live events that are broadcast from around the world. The company announced the acquisition of the Quayside cinema in Balbriggan, which was bought from NAMA and refurbished at a cost of €1.5m. This includes the 13 screen Cork Omniplex which opened in 2005 and the Rathmines Omniplex which completed in 2014 following a 15-year campaign to open cinemas in The Swan SC, which the Andersons acquired in 1999. Since then Omniplex have expanded in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, there are 23 Omniplex cinemas currently operating. The first cinema to be branded an Omniplex was in Santry (now IMC).
The origins of Omniplex lie with the evolution of multiplex cinemas in the early 1990s. Their biggest acquisition came when they bought the Rank Cinemas portfolio in 1988, which included Dublin's flagship Savoy cinema and The Screen cinema, which the Andersons jointly owned as part of the Dublin Cinema Group until 2013.
The Andersons continued to acquire, redevelop and sell cinemas across Ireland over the subsequent decades. The first cinema was purchased in Lucan in 1955, where company Chairman and Managing Director Paul Anderson started working at 8 years old before officially entering the business at 18. The first films acquired were The Hills of Donegal and The Rose of Tralee, which were distributed to cinemas across Ireland. Not all supervisors are great at making sure you have had your breaks so don't be shy about asking if you can go.The Anderson family have a long history in the film and cinema business dating back to 1948 when Kevin Anderson (Paul Anderson's father now retired) first started a film distribution business. If it is busy you could be asked to only take half of your break to makeup for poor planning of the rota. This sounds great at first but you aren't being paid for those hours you are missing. Because you are on a zero hour contract you can get a text message an hour before your shift asking if you can take the day off and this can also happen an hour or two into your shift.
You cannot plan your weeks ahead as you will be emailed your rota on a tuesday to the following thursday. The turnover rate at the site I worked at was terrible seeing multiple generals and supervisors leaving to places that will give them the money they deserve for their work and I only worked there for just over a year.
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It is true that you get two free passes every week but most times you are working too much to enjoy them or you haven't got enough shifts to pay for popcorn etc which is all full price. A supervisor at the age of 20 will be paid less than a general over 24. The best thing about working there was the co workers but that doesn't make up for the dramatic shift in hours after summer and christmas and the poor wages.
That being said it isn't the most difficult job and if you are working with a good bunch you can enjoy it. Zero hour contract is terrible and if management doesn't like you you won't get hours it's that simple. If you are a student this is an ideal job, however this is not a job for anyone with a family to support.
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