A note for Paul Fortini, and others calling Village Entertainment, Village Theatres or Lakehurst Entertainment or whatever name they are going by today, a “legitimate chain” is a huge stretch of grammar and common sense. For a business to be legitimate, they need to operate like a business, actually PAY their vendors and employees and try to be a good business citizen and comply with local laws (like paying taxes). Ron Rooding and his “partners” only pay vendors when sued or when they must pay to operate. They treat their employees like cattle (I know, because I was one, accuse every manager and employee of stealing from them and probably break every state and federal law concerning employees, time off, insurance, taxes, etc. Most of their locations have been shut down in the recent past for non payment of property taxes, sales taxes, health code violations, fire code violations and worse. They only pay their landlords when threatened with eviction and cant get a lot of films because several major studios have cut them off for non payment. They falsify attendance records and grosses and generally are shoddy, crooked operators.
A note for Paul Fortini, and others calling Village Entertainment, Village Theatres or Lakehurst Entertainment or whatever name they are going by today, a “legitimate chain” is a huge stretch of grammar and common sense. For a business to be legitimate, they need to operate like a business, actually PAY their vendors and employees and try to be a good business citizen and comply with local laws (like paying taxes). Ron Rooding and his “partners” only pay vendors when sued or when they must pay to operate. They treat their employees like cattle (I know, because I was one, accuse every manager and employee of stealing from them and probably break every state and federal law concerning employees, time off, insurance, taxes, etc. Most of their locations have been shut down in the recent past for non payment of property taxes, sales taxes, health code violations, fire code violations and worse. They only pay their landlords when threatened with eviction and cant get a lot of films because several major studios have cut them off for non payment. They falsify attendance records and grosses and generally are shoddy, crooked operators.