Lynn Kinsella, the co-owner of an upstate New York movie theater, started selling popcorn curbside after coronavirus restrictions barred her and other small cinemas in the state from showing movies. But the snack sales only made up a fraction of the missing box-office money.

“It doesn’t make up for the 90% of revenue that we’ve lost,” said Ms. Kinsella, who bought the vintage Aurora Theatre in East Aurora, N.Y., with her husband a decade ago.

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This post first appeared on wsj.com

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