One thing you know for sure is that theater seats will need to be cleaned regularly. You will most likely need to do a daily cleaning of these pieces of furniture and then a weekly deep cleaning to keep them looking good and smelling good.
Popcorn oil, spilled soda, chewing gum, and all the other things that can get on the surface of movie theater seats during the course of a movie wreak havoc on the look and smell of the item. colored pieces and keep the lighting inside the room dim.
The smell of old grease and body sweat can quickly turn a movie theater into a horrible place to be. Keeping theater seats clean will eliminate most of these odors. You’ll also want to sweep and mop under the seats daily and keep the rugs along the hallways clean.
You’ll need a good handheld vacuum to use on the cloth-covered theater seats in your movie theater. Every day you should have an employee take the handheld vacuum into the theater and suck up all the loose particles from the chair cushions. They should pay close attention to cracks and crevices when doing this task.
You must have an employee wipe down the armrests between individual chairs with a disinfectant solution daily. These chair arms get sticky from spilled soda and oils from human hands. They also become extremely dirty. Cleaning them will improve the look and smell of the room, as well as reduce the number of bacteria waiting for a human host to enter.
You should have a steam cleaner that you can use on the seats once a week or once a month. Steam cleaning the furniture should be done on a day the theater is closed or late at night so the furniture has time to dry before the next movie is shown on the screen.
You can sprinkle baking soda on the carpet and on the seats late at night after all the viewers have gone home. The next morning, you can vacuum up the baking soda before the onlookers arrive. Baking soda removes odors and makes the room smell better.
You can use disinfectant spray every night when the spectators have left. As part of your evening cleaning ritual, you can spray chairs with disinfectant spray to kill germs and bacteria. This will reduce the chances of someone getting sick because they were in your theater.
Most movie theaters keep the inside temperature very low to help inhibit bacteria growth as well. Bacteria don’t do as well in cold temperatures, and people stay cool when they’re cool. Cooler temperatures will also reduce odors in the room.