Most chairs in a room this big should lock together, so in the event of an evacuation, the room doesn’t get scattered with random chairs, blocking egress. That locking mechanism would automatically align the chairs.
I work at like 850 cap event center and we don't have locking chairs like this.
Ngl having to set up and tear down hundreds of locking chairs 5 times a week would be a huge pain in the ass. We used to have them like that in my church growing up, but they stayed out all the time.
I’ve worked events in NYC and Las Vegas where we had rental chairs that didn’t lock together, and we had to have a crew go through each row with zip ties to make the Fire Marshall happy.
Tbf I live in a liberal city and yeah I agree with the politics here but dude the fire Marshall is on a POWER TRIP here. I can't think of a single venue where they haven't just absolutely busted their balls and basically just keep giving them fire code violations for next to no reason. It's actually kinda crazy because the buildings here all all ancient, every venue was already struggling from covid, the fire codes shut them down every other weekend to the point they BLEED money... On top of that they just added a new Art tax that completely fucks music venues and no one knows where the money goes...
And these aren't shady greedy assholes these are people I know personally trying to organize events for small artists and they just can't manage a dime of profit.
And because of the fire code here it ends to being a situation where by hiring _____ amount of employees for an event that suddenly makes it count as an official event with more strict codes... So it's based on employee count not attendee count. So we end up with a situation where hiring less safety help somehow excuses even more safety concerns...
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u/guyako 1d ago
Most chairs in a room this big should lock together, so in the event of an evacuation, the room doesn’t get scattered with random chairs, blocking egress. That locking mechanism would automatically align the chairs.
I guess Pigeon Forge isn’t big on fire codes.