Ask the facility to allow ample room between chairs at the tables. Otherwise they tend to crowd chairs together leaving many people straddling table legs and bumping elbows with their neighbors. Classroom set-up requires a larger room. If your meeting is in one side of the ballroom and a high school jazz band competition is happening on the other side of the room divider, your meeting may be drowned out by what's happening next door. Ask what other groups have booked rooms adjacent to the room you are considering.
Theaters are great for movies, but are a terrible environment for live meetings.
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