How much you actually spend at an Everyman cinema in 2026 – tickets, food, and drinks
Key Points
- Everyman guests spent an average of £12.97 on a ticket and £11.41 on food and drink in the first half of 2026, a combined £24.38.
- Ticket prices rose 4.1% and food and drink spend rose 3.0% year on year.
- Food and drink now make up 46.8% of the combined per-head figure, or 88p for every £1 spent on a ticket.
- Revenue reached £70.0m from 2.6m admissions, with £10.8m reaching adjusted EBITDA.
- Everyman's UK market share rose to 6.4% from 5.8%.
Everyman guests paid an average of £12.97 for a ticket and spent a further £11.41 on food and drink in the first half of 2026, taking the typical costs to £24.38 a head.
The premium cinema group published the figures in a trading update covering the 26 weeks to 2 July 2026, a period in which it drew 2.6 million admissions across 49 venues and 171 screens.
The paid-for average ticket price rose 4.1% from £12.46 a year earlier. Food and beverage spend per head rose 3.0% from £11.09. Together, the two lines climbed 3.5%, from £23.55 to £24.38.
Food and drink account for nearly half the bill
For every £1 a guest spends on a ticket at Everyman, that guest spends another 88p on food and drink.
Food and beverage makes up 46.8% of the combined figure, a proportion that has edged down from 47.1% a year ago because ticket prices rose faster than spend at the bar and kitchen.
Everyman prepares its food and drink in house and serves it to seat, and lists that hospitality model alongside film curation as one of its four competitive strengths.
The average guest spends more than £24, but Everyman takes more than that.
Everyman generated revenue of £70.0m in the half, up 23.9% from £56.5m. Spread across 2.6m admissions, that works out at roughly £26 to £27 per admission, above the £24.38 that tickets, food and drink account for.
The update does not break out the remaining revenue, which sits outside the two per-head measures the group reports.
Of the money guests spend, £10.8 million reached adjusted EBITDA post-IFRS16, up 32.0% from £8.2 million. That equates to roughly £4.15 per admission.
Net debt fell 29% to £17.1 million from £24.2 mllion, which Everyman attributes to strong operational cashflows, the timing of working capital payments and limited venue expansion capital expenditure in the period.
The group’s market share rose 60 basis points to 6.4% from 5.8%, which Everyman credits to the strength of its premium proposition and audience appeal.
Admissions growth of 20.5% came without a change in estate size, with the venue and screen count unmoved from the 49 sites and 171 screens the group reported in its previous update.
What’s next for the group?
Everyman flagged caution on the full year, pointing to the challenging economic environment and the weight of Q4 trading in its annual performance.
The directors are assessing investment projects including significant spending on IT infrastructure, which will affect profitability in the second half of 2026, and expect the financial year to finish marginally ahead of 2025. Interim results follow on 24 September 2026.
The group is also preparing to leave the stock market. Three director-shareholders holding 45.6% of the issued share capital told the board in June they would support cancelling the company’s AIM listing, with holders of a further 11% also expected to back the move.
Everyman said on Monday that it continues to engage with stakeholders and expects a further announcement on the delisting before the end of August 2026.
