Medieval Times runs ten dinner theatres with 200 actors per show, charging $80 per person. The chain pulls in 2 to 2.5 million guests yearly and makes $150 to $200 million annually, rivaling Cirque du Soleil in scale.
Have you ever heard of the, uh, Medieval Times, the restaurant franchise?
Oh, there's like basically it looks like a small castle like the Excalibur Hotel in Vegas, and then inside there's like people on horses jousting.
Dude, I always thought this was just like a joke. So let me tell you the story. Medieval Times, it's basically dinner theater, and so they do a 2-hour show where you go with you, your wife, and your 2 kids, and you spend something like $80 a head, and you see people host a medieval show. There's like 200 actors and they like do jousting, some type of theater stuff. It's, it's almost like Cirque du Soleil, but it's medieval stuff. Their financials, they're enormous. So basically they have, it's estimated, around 2 to 2.5 million people a year coming to the restaurants, and they make something like $150 to $200 million a year in 10 locations hosting these dinner theater shows. Since 1983, they've hosted close to 80 million people at these events.
