K9 Cinemas in Plano is unlike any theater you’ve been to.

For starters, the concession stand serves bottomless free wine on Friday and Saturday nights. More important, however, are the pooches: many good boys and girls, all brought by owners to the world’s first and only dog-friendly indoor theater.

Owner Eric Lankford, 29, opened K9 Cinemas as a passion project. A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Lankford left an unsatisfying job in the pharmaceutical industry in 2018 and moved to Texas looking to do something that made him happy and let him be closer to his best friend: an Australian Eskimo named Bear.

“I love movies, and Bear gets terrible separation anxiety,” Lankford said. “I wanted to do something where people could go out and watch a film and be with their dogs.”

“Out of 27,000

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