Santikos temporarily closed its theaters in March after the city ordered all non-essential businesses to shut down to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Photo: YouTube: Santikos Entertainment Photo: YouTube: Santikos Entertainment Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Santikos CEO places himself, staff on furlough during stay-at-home order 1 / 1 Back to GalleryIn a YouTube video uploaded on Friday, Santikos Entertainment CEO Tim Handren said he is placing himself and his staff on furlough until the movie theater chain can reopen. In a YouTube video uploaded on Friday, Santikos Entertainment CEO Tim Handren said he is placing himself and his staff on furlough until the movie theater chain can reopen. ![]() Santikos CEO places himself, staff on furlough during stay-at-home orderIn a YouTube video uploaded on Friday, Santikos Entertainment CEO Tim Handren said he is placing himself and his staff on furlough until the movie theater chain can reopen. Santikos CEO places himself, staff on furlough during stay-at-home order “From small independent screens to nationwide exhibitors, movie theaters employ over 150,000 people and have formed a cornerstone of the American experience for generations.”Additionally, the email from Santikos urged loyalty members of the company to lobby Congress, urging representatives to take action to prevent the closure of theaters. “The COVID-19 pandemic has put movie theaters like ours at risk of going dark for good,” the email said. The company said it has “worked for months to create safe physically distanced seating, implemented new sanitation policies and created health screening standards for customers.”Despite these efforts, the company is still challenged to survive the COVID-19 outbreak. ![]() “To say it is frustrating would be an understatement,” the company said to loyalty members in the email. ![]() SAN ANTONIO – Santikos Entertainment emailed loyalty members on Wednesday asking for help saying COVID-19 will make theaters “supremely challenged to survive.”The entertainment company said that the virus has limited capacity limits in buildings, and the entertainment industry at large is suffering from a lack of exposure overall with limited releases of new movies. Santikos: COVID-19 will make theaters ‘supremely challenged to survive’
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