Please elaborate on the popcorn. I need to tell my wife something to stop her from buying it.
You already know that the "butter" used to pop the corn is not butter, and resembles nothing even close to butter.
But you probably don't know that it gets delivered in large 10 gallon buckets that look like cans of house paint. It starts out as a lumpy, amorphous, unnaturally orange solid, and in order to use it in the popper, you need to melt it with a heat stick for a couple hours. Nasty stuff.
The "salt" is not salt, it's Flavacol. Nothing particularly wrong with that (the FDA considers it "generally safe for human consumption"), but we invariably used too much.
The popper itself is usually run once a week, and it's supposed to be cleaned before each use, but in practice that often didn't happen. We would pop a large batch on Wednesday and store the popcorn in large garbage bags on a rack in the back, bringing out a bag to dump into the warmer at the counter when needed. Any popcorn that remained in the warmer at the end of the night was put right back into a bag and put back on the rack for use the next day.
So the weekend crowd was usually getting stale popcorn that was minimum 2-3 days old and had been taken out and put back a couple times already. And if somebody forgot to rotate the bags on the rack, it could be even older.
So to sum up: dubious ingredients, questionable inventory practices, and an insane markup on top of that. That's why I steer clear.