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The answer then is to look at the license application itself. If the license is for the whole building, then the whole premises is off-limits. If the license is just for an area of the building, then only that part of the building is off-limits. This is done during the application by a process known as diagramming off the non-licensed parts of the building.

I find it hard to believe that the whole theatre makes less than half of the income. TABC makes this determination on the basis of an application that asks what percentage of the money comes from alcohol sales, what percentage from food, and what percentage from everything else. They may have reported this to TABC as being 51% alcohol, but I find it hard to believe.

The way to check and get the license corrected is to protest the renewal. Anyone can protest for any reason. Protest on the grounds that the amounts are not being reported properly (probably not including the ticket prices since they don't see that as sales or they only included the bar sales). TABC will investigate the complaint when the renewal comes around and one of three things will happen. The theater will report its income differently and the 51% will come down, the theater will decide the licens eis not worth the hassle of fighting the protest, or the theater will prove it was right and continue with things as they are. You get to decide how much you want to fight it.