Growth Chains: CinéBistroGrowth Chains: CinéBistro

CinéBistro is a concept that combines dinner and a show. It’s really just that simple, said Fred Meyers, the company’s executive director.

“We’ve created this very luxurious, very pampering way of enjoying an activity people have been doing for years,” Meyers said. “We have a unique niche in the old tradition of dinner and a movie.”

The concept, which is owned by Birmingham, Ala.-based Cobb Theatres, offers an upscale-casual dining experience in which food is served before a movie begins and then is consumed once it is underway. The target audiences are couples on a date night and girls’-night-out groups — think pink martinis and the “Sex and the City” movies, he said.

The chain has seven locations across the country, including units in Ham...