Regal Cinema calorie information

Some of the most common search terms that lead people to hyperdad.com (to this post in particular) are ”regal theaters calorie count”, ”calories in small regal cinemas movie popcorn”, “calories regal cinema kids pack”, “regal theaters large size cups soda amount oz”, “regal cinema kids popcorn calories”, “regal cinemas medium popcorn nutrition facts”, and the numbers “2″ and “4″.

I don’t think I can help the “2″ and “4″ searchers but I can now help those looking for Regal movie theater nutritional information.  I called the Regal Entertainment Group customer service number and a few days later they e-mailed me an Excel file with everything I was looking for.  You can download a PDF of the spreadsheet at the bottom of this post.

Here’s a synopsis:

Drink sizes

• Junior (kids): 16 ounces
• Small: 32 oz
• Medium: 44 oz
• Large: 54 oz

Popcorn calories (not including extra salt or butter)

• Small: 450 calories
• Medium: 690 calories
• Large: 900 calories

The Regal kids meal has 254-494 calories.  It doesn’t list a value for the kid size popcorn separately; the lower value is with a diet drink.

How much fat is in the popcorn?  That information wasn’t included in the spreadsheet but I calculate (source 1, source 2) about 21 to 30 grams for the small, 36 to 46 g for the medium, and 42 to 60 g for the large popcorn.  Add more butter, enjoy harder arteries.

Not included in the guide - calorie count for "flavored cuttlefish".

It was interesting to learn that per serving the Blue Raspberry frozen beverage (aka Icee or Slurpee) has nearly twice as many calories per 8 oz serving (117 calories) than the frozen Fanta Cherry (66 calories) or the frozen Coke (65 calories).  Not that you can buy only 8 oz, but that’s what’s given on the information sheet.

Don’t ask to buy a junior or kids size soda either.  I tried to purchase a mere 16 ounces the other day; they wouldn’t sell me that size.  I asked the person in charge (the one running around in the black jacket) and she said they couldn’t sell them separately for “inventory reasons”.  When I asked why they couldn’t count the small cups as easily as the larger cups she said they couldn’t break up the parts of the kids pack.

She may not have the authority to do that but certainly the Regal Entertainment Group does.  Why they don’t, I don’t know.  They only sent me their calorie information, not their accounting spreadsheet (because I’m sure the whole company is run on a single spreadsheet).

By the way, a small bottled water costs $4.25 at Regal, over the counter or in their vending machine.  A kid’s pack (as of this writing, for those that are searching for that): $5.25.  Let’s hear it for my daughter, who has a really cool bag that easily holds 4 bottled drinks and 4 candy bars…huzzah!

In case anyone is wondering, I don’t have it in for Regal.  In fact, I rather like their theater and we go there most often.  We’ve got many choices, theater-wise.  The closest is a Cinemark 24 but that’s our least favorite (no wonder Muvico sold it to them a few months ago).  There’s also a Hoyt’s 14 close by, which isn’t a bad theater, and farthest is an AMC 14.  We probably go to the AMC theater as much as the Regal.

Here’s that nutritional information in PDF format I promised:  Regal Caloric Information Guide