Lsherm: Seriously, has anyone ever seen a Chuck E. Cheese in a good neighborhood?

There's one a half mile from my place. I live in a good neighborhood.

I think.

I took my 20 month old to a Chuck E Cheese last month when we were vacation in California. We got there at 10AM and no one else was there.

I thought he would love it & bought $5 worth of tokens. He could not have cared less. The rides all bored him, as did the games. I quickly used up the tokens, got some crappy game tickets that we traded for some whistles and were on our way.

If there had been other kids there, I know he would have enjoyed it more. He loves hanging out with the bigger kids. But that's where the problems usually arise as well, as he gets knocked on his ass.

But from experience, I take him weekly to a play place with a number of other kids. I spend the whole time supervising my kid and while he has issues, they're quickly resolved, regardless of whether it was his fault or not. The issues are usually with the kids whose parents/nanny's sit on benches gossiping with one another or taking/texting on their cell phones, which is most of them.

Ya, it's called 'black culture'.

marcre3363: I took my 20 month old to a Chuck E Cheese...I thought he would love it & bought $5 worth of tokens. He could not have cared less

Protip: While your 20 month old is, of course, the next Einstein, when it comes to smarts, 20 month old kids are on a par with banana slugs and slime molds.

I loved that place when I was a kid. I actually had my 6th or 7th birthday there. Granted, that was 1989-1990. They had some of the best arcade games there. I still have good memories of spending a shiatload of money on Ninja Turtles and Robocop. Too bad the place went to shiat, lots of trash in the house now.

vwarb: FTFA: Chuck E. Cheese declined to appear on camera.

Why is this shadowy master hiding from us? Will he ever emerge from his gooey castle, deep in the Pennsylvania wilderness? Chuck E. 2012!



I let Chuck sleep on my couch for a few months.
Poor bastard was so sick of the urban thuggery,
he was going through an 8 ball, and a handle of vodka every night.

This tears it. From now on we only go to Hymie Cheese.


Where a yid can be a yid.

Chuck E. Cheese was popular among all kids when arcade games were popular, and the only competition was Atari, NES, and the exotic PC games.
Now, the only reason to go there is shiatty pizza.

Because each generation gets its path paved by the preceeding generation, and today's adults feel the need to out-do their forefathers. So fluck sit-ins, I'm gonna beat a muthafuka up in this piece.

DonkeyDixon: The explanation has been overcomplicated. Here's what it is:

1) Adults are stuck doing shiat they have zero interest in doing
2) They serve beer

Put the two together and people get frustrated, biatchy, and territorial


Pretty much THIS. Although the kids contribute to it, too -- decades of scare media has created the atmosphere that any other adult is a potential threat to your kids, so people are on edge and defensive. Add in 250 screaming out-of-control crotchgoblins and you have a very high-stress environment.

jaytkay: marcre3363: I took my 20 month old to a Chuck E Cheese...I thought he would love it & bought $5 worth of tokens. He could not have cared less

Protip: While your 20 month old is, of course, the next Einstein, when it comes to smarts, 20 month old kids are on a par with banana slugs and slime molds.

Who said anything about smarts? I figured he'd love riding on rides, making video games bleep and bloop, and throw crap. As a kid, I'd have loved a Chuck E Cheese to myself. But he's more into socializing with douchebags in person than anonymous douchebags online, like his dad.

Looks like I need to wash the Dorito stains out of my shirts and take him out more often.

Question #7. A Chuck E. Cheese location has 5 trailer trash families visiting, and 25 pitchers of beer. How many times will the police have to respond?

Bonus Question (5 points). How many people will be tased?

Misconduc: As someone who worked for Chuck E Cheese as a teen here's some tips:
A) employees make minimum wage, so we don't give a fark about your precious snowflakes, don't like the food you ordered? make it yourself at home

FTFY. Work ethic comes from character, not wage.

Lsherm: Because every C.E.C. I've ever seen is in a neighborhood so bad it wouldn't attract a truck stop, much less a "family" restaurant?

Seriously, has anyone ever seen a Chuck E. Cheese in a good neighborhood? I'm surprised they're only know for fighting, you'd think there would be a prostitution bust in there somewhere.

There's one in North Wilmington (19803 suburbs), DE. However it's next to a dollar store and the ghetto is only 4 miles away down the pike. Good neighborhood, bad clientele.

You know what was fun? When I got volunteered to "keep an eye" on my mouthy, racist mother-in-law the last time we had a birthday a Chuck E Cheese. She must have thought she was whispering when she asked the prize counter lady if it was "always this 'dark' in here".

Called a kid a monkey too.

bugmn99: Called a kid a monkey too

I call my kids monkeys all the time.

There are a few characteristics that all the troubled Chucks possess. It's not beer, they serve beer in many of the non-trouble spots. It's not stressed out parents concerned about their kids' bday parties, lots of those without trouble. I've seen a lot of reports of fights and all the videos and locations seemed to have something in common... hymmm, if I could only remember what that was...

Because a Dave N Busters hasnt moved to your neck of the woods yet.

This never happened when they used to be Showbiz Pizza places, mainly because everyone was too sick to fight.

This reminds me of the AstroWorld problem in Houston -- until the place went totally belly up. There used to be lots of gang-related activity in the park and the parking lots. When I took the family there, it was not by any means a cheap outing considering admission charges and the captive audience pricing for food and drink. But I was always struck by the tremendous number of folks and their kids in the place that looked like they had no way of paying those prices.

So maybe a few rules to live by for this situation:
1). If you are on any sort of public assistance, don't come here
2). If your 7th grader sports a beard that would do a moonshiner proud,don't com here.

Bottom line is that this might be the sort of problem that is corrected by raising prices (as long as everyone really pays the full price).

Subby apparently hasn't beenMisconduc: As someone who worked for Chuck E Cheese as a teen here's some tips:
A) employees make minimum wage, so we don't give a fark about your precious snowflakes, don't like the food you ordered? make it yourself at home
B) Your kids have accidents we get it, if they are just being kids then clean it up yourself, were not paid to baby sit your frosty snowflake when he throws a slice of pizza because he didnt get a teddy bear
C) your kid pukes or poops a diaper, read above ^
D) If your kid acts up, take him home - had one kid beam another in the face with the balls from a pit, told his parents get him outa here - manager agreed. Kid was pissy over fact he didnt get something for his birthday and started pelting people.

E) Helicopter parents - STAY HOME, were not catering to your every moment because timmy finally got his first hit in a little league baseball game.

yeah I didn't last 3 months, nor do I have kids now thank god - don't want your precious daughter pregnant? have her work at chuck E cheese - pretty sure she will go lesbo when you remind her if she gets pregnant any one of the little rug rats will be hers.

Given the number of headaches I have when I take my kids (who are average behaved for kids) to chuck-e-cheese's type places, I would be surprised if you did a piss test at the employees and got below 50 percent positive rate (not blaming them). Best thing's we've done are establish a time limit up front, doled out the money slowly, and don't take them there when they're tired.

There is a website you might find relevant to your interests: chimpout.com

Lsherm: Seriously, has anyone ever seen a Chuck E. Cheese in a good neighborhood?

The one about a mile from me in Milwaukee is in the same strip mall as: a muffler place, A DMV location, and what was a K-Mart, but now is a place for the unemployed to go to classes. And across the street is the Klement's Sausage factory and outlet (Home of the Milwaukee Brewer's famous racing sausages!)

So yeah, I really think it's a problem of the sketchy neighborhood. I have friends from Racine (like they have room to talk about anything "ghetto" in Milwaukee) that refer to it as "Ghetto Cheese".

And you know it's a poor people neighborhood because the DMV has cut it's hours in light of the voter ID law so much that it's rarely open anymore.

read this comment on the article page, i lol'd
had my son's 5th birthday party at Chuck E Cheese because he wanted to. The table next to us, an unattended toddler kept taking presents off of our table. We had to repeatedly stop him. Then his sister (a 9 year old) flipped me off for looking at her. My friends husband went into the bathroom and saw the brother of the toddler defecating in the urinal. I haven't been back since.

can i get a freshly dueced upon urinal cake with my salad bar plx

Loucifer: Wait. Nightline is still on?

I know, right? Don't they know the hostages were freed like 30 years ago? WTF?

whydat

read this comment on the article page, i lol'd
had my son's 5th birthday party at Chuck E Cheese because he wanted to. The table next to us, an unattended toddler kept taking presents off of our table. We had to repeatedly stop him. Then his sister (a 9 year old) flipped me off for looking at her. My friends husband went into the bathroom and saw the brother of the toddler defecating in the urinal. I haven't been back since.

can i get a freshly dueced upon urinal cake with my salad bar plx

There is no Chuck's too good for an upper decker.

We took our two year old to Chuck E Cheese for lunch on his birthday. Since it was a school day, we were practically the only ones there, and he had the run of the place. The real tactical error we made was buying tokens, since he was totally happy to just bang randomly on buttons and pull levers, whether or not the game was actually active. Ended up with my husband and I switching off between toddler-chasing and playing pinball or video games.

A couple of strip clubs I used to visit ended periodic fights by hiring off duty cops as security. One bar, when it started to get rowdy, hired this smallish, pleasant-looking polite bouncer. He turned out to be a Black Belt Martial Artist. He was always polite and took it outside when some big drunk started causing problems. He was also still polite, unflustered and not a hair out of place when he returned later -- alone.

Fights at that bar dropped sharply in a real short time.

A friend worked at a bar/concert venue in Detroit. They were having trouble with groups of four and five Arab guys ganging up single guys, usually the wimpiest they could find. One of the Arab guys on their security crew found the solution: every time a fight like this started out, only their female bouncers (most of them badass lesbians) would respond. Word got out that starting shiat at the venue would get you smacked around by a woman and the phenomenon pretty much stopped.

//Detroit Guidos aren't Italian, they're Arab.//

What the hell does a rat know about pizza?

Detroit Guidos are Chaldean Arabs - total scum.

baronbloodbath: Here's the short answer: they serve beer.

Here's the long answer: they serve beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr!

*snort*

Dispatched many hold up alarms to Chuck E. Cheese, only to find out that the disposition was a fight.

timharrod: Okay, attention old farts: Am I the only one who realizes Chuck was better in the 80s, EVEN ADJUSTING for the fact that we're old, so everything in the universe is less magical?

In the 80s, Chuck had robot animals peeking out of every corner; it was like seeing the Muppet Show live. Now it's mostly video screens, with a lot of ads on them, and one or two robots. The corporate suits seem to have forgotten that we all have video screens in our homes; many many video screens and damned few singing robots.

I once promised myself I'd never beat the cranky-grandpa-drum of "It used to be good but it sucks now," but Chuck truly forced my hand on the matter.

I'm not running for president here, but someone back me up.

I hung out at Showbiz Pizza in the mid 80s. Same company, but originally had a geographical divide like Carls Jr and Hardees. On Friday and Saturday evenings they would shut down at 7 or 8 and reopen an hour later with the tables all gone and contemporary music playing. They turned it into a teen nightclub with video games and it was awesome. I ruled Karate Champ, I was the master.

Because poor people are stupid savages who deserve to be beaten and worked to death. Duh.