Gold Class Cinemas takes luxury to a new level

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It’s kinda like having your own personal screening room: Gold Class Cinemas is a growing chain of luxury liner-like movie theaters that opened its first California location in Pasadena on Dec. 2. The hallmark of the ‘Gold Class experience,’ as Graham Burke, chief executive of its parent company, Village Roadshow, likes to call it, is a small, glowing button on the table next to your seat that summons a black-clad server to your side. Times staff writer Jessica Gelt gives it a trial run.