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Jack Eisenman – Restaurant Manager with a Commitment to Community

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Jack Eisenman – Restaurant Manager with a Commitment to Community

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A bar and restaurant assistant manager who resides in Augusta, Georgia, Jack Eisenman has worked in the bar and restaurant industry since 2019. In his current role with Finch & Fifth, Jack Eisenman has developed an employee training program and strengthened the establishment's inventory program.

Prior to working with Finch & Fifth, Mr. Eisenman was an interim youth pastor starting in 2012 and became an English teacher in 2015. However, in 2019, his career trajectory changed when the White Horse Wine and Spirits establishment hired him as a bar manager.

Mr. Eisenman’s educational and management training include a bachelor’s degree in English education from the University of Georgia in Athens. He is also pursuing a professional MBA from the University of Iowa. Outside of his formal education, he is a certified beer server.

Separate from his career in the bar and restaurant industry, Mr. Eisenman has volunteered and supported community organizations such as Diligent Hands Gracious Hearts, Healing Haiti, the Timothy Project, Unidiversity Missions, and the Stewart Center. When not volunteering his time in the community, he participates in running events, such as the Augusta Half Marathon. He is also part of a competitive cornhole league, and enjoys cooking and learning new recipes.

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The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on virtually all American industries, including film. Theaters were forced to close their doors in 2020, and many struggled to reopen successfully throughout 2021 and 2022. According to the National Cinema Foundation, the average movie ticket price increased from $9.16 to $10.53 during the pandemic. Close to 3,000 movie theater screens were lost over the same period. The impact of the pandemic is unmistakable, leaving several crucial questions unanswered. These include whether America's film industry has fully recovered from the pandemic and what the future may hold for the industry.

America's first movie theater opened in 1905 as a storefront nickelodeon, so named because admission cost one nickel. Within three years, thousands of nickelodeon storefronts popped up across the country. Over the following decades, movie theaters adopted numerous improvements, ranging from comfortable seating to stereophonic sound. Air conditioning helped make movies popular during the hot summer months. As theaters expanded and grew in popularity, the films they showed became more spectacular: the first nickelodeons played short films predating sound and color. Gone with the Wind (1939) was a 221-minute epic with a $3.85 million budget, nearly $85 million in 2023.

An effective method of estimating the popularity of the theatrical film experience in America involves adjusting the nation's top-grossing films for inflation and then using that information to determine roughly how many people saw the movie in theaters. Gone with the Wind remains America's highest-grossing film, with an adjusted gross of $1.89 billion. Dividing this gross by the $10.53 average reported by the National Cinema Foundation results in around 180,002,000 moviegoers.

By comparison, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens ranks as the highest-grossing domestic film in cinema history at $933.6 billion in 2015, or just over $1 billion in 2023. This means about 96,204,000 Americans saw the film in theaters, representing just over half the audience attending Gone with the Wind nearly seven decades before. The highest-grossing domestic film in 2022 was Top Gun: Maverick, seen in theaters by an estimated 68,216,387 individuals.

Accounting for inflation gives a clearer picture of how many Americans are going to theaters in recent years, but overall finances are hugely important. In 2016, the domestic box office reached its zenith with a total gross of $11.37 billion, with the top-grossing film being Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, earning $533 million. Nine films grossed over $300 million, and 30 films surpassed the $100 million mark. The domestic box office fell nearly 82 percent from 2019 to 2020, with new releases falling from 910 to 456.

The box office jumped 112 percent in 2021, but film release numbers have remained lower than pre-pandemic levels. Another interesting wrinkle to the modern American movie-going audience is that while the total box office continues to lag behind pre-pandemic numbers, the average film has performed on par or better than the average film in recent years.

The suggestion is that Americans have returned to theaters and will see movies they are interested in. Still, individuals and families do not see as many films as they did in previous years. This assertion is supported by a 2022 Morning Consult poll that found that while over 60 percent of audiences no longer held any lingering pandemic-related concerns, only 41 percent described themselves as interested in seeing movies "often," down from 60 percent before the pandemic. More than half of the respondents preferred watching movies at home and said theaters were too expensive. A similar Harris Poll survey in 2023 found that nearly 4 out of 5 Americans preferred movies at home over movies in theaters.

The advent of streaming platforms and video-on-demand services has hindered the growth of American cinema. Still, they do not represent the only threat to the continued existence of movie theaters. Multiple studies have shown that the human attention span is shrinking because of the large amount of readily available information, which makes the prospect of a two-plus hour film a daunting experience for many.

There is still bright news for American theater owners. Barbie and Oppenheimer, released on the same day in 2023, combined to gross nearly $2.4 billion, and the total domestic box office gross for 2023 is the highest since 2019.

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How Many Americans Are Going to the Movies?

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The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on virtually all American industries, including film. Theaters were forced to close their doors in 2020, and many struggled to reopen successfully throughout...

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Leadership styles summarize a leader's behavioral approach to influencing, motivating, and directing a workforce. Leadership styles determine how leaders interact with employees, manage stakeholders' expectations, respond to change, and implement organizational strategies. A leader's experiences, values, skills, personality, and level of emotional intelligence significantly determine the style they choose to implement. Effective leaders understand various approaches to leadership and choose the one that fits a situation and the workforce to achieve set objectives.

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Leadership styles summarize a leader's behavioral approach to influencing, motivating, and directing a workforce. Leadership styles determine how leaders interact with employees, manage stakeholders'...