Concessions closed. Single movies (on the short side) only. Go to bathroom at home.
Also, cinemas make almost all of their profit from concessions, so if you remove those they're going to have to charge more for the tickets themselves to make up for it. Will people be willing to spend this much?
But yes, you could do it safely if you required people to stay in their cars the entire time and provided no services, not even bathrooms. I honestly don't see this being that attractive a proposition to most people though. And I've never been to a drive-in theater in my life, so I don't know about restoring normalcy. Restoring normalcy would be going to a regular theater. A drive-in theater would be a novelty that I'm only experiencing because of the pandemic.
Do you pee at the grocery store these days too? You couldn't pay me anything to use a public restroom anywhere in the US until we have a cure for this virus. I go to the bathroom before I make a store run. And I make store runs very infrequently, they are very concise runs, I avoid everyone, and I go only during extreme off hours, and I wear an N95 face mask that I heat sterilize afterwards. I also extensively sterilize everything I buy, which takes nearly a whole day to do properly. Things I can't directly sanitize go into a queue in the garage and are not used for 20 days.
Going into any public bathroom is an unnecessary risk. These drive in theatre bathrooms should be closed and locked, as should public restrooms in parks. Laws against urinating in public such as in the bushes at a public park should be suspended. Peeing into a cup in one's car should be promoted as a safer alternative to finding a public bathroom. These are all temporary measures but are necessary. Public bathrooms being non-negotiable? Then stay home.
I agree that public bathrooms are a risk. When I said "the bathrooms are non-negotiable", what I meant is "I'm not going if there's not a bathroom", and if there's no bathroom because it's not safe, then a lot of people aren't going.
Also, we grocery store cause we have no choice. Not be a use we would be seeking comfort and pleasure as in cinema.
Well, if you can't nobody should be allowed to.
That certainly implies bathrooms or nothing.
I don't think it's even legal in most communities in the U.S. to not have facilities where people gather. We take hygiene pretty seriously in this regard.
and then i saw the no public restrooms. naw... some of us won't make it.
Usually they use low-power FM radio stations for this.