Haha! I remember that Vine once. _Let's go to the gun shop, then they we're going to the liquor store. If we put both of them, and put it into the Chuck E. Cheese's._ Godspeed for Chuck E. Cheese. **salute**
I worked here for almost a decade. I'll tell you what went wrong. They changed the pizza recipe to make it easier and cost less in labor. For years we would make the dough from scratch ball it up, then rise it and roll it out and rise it again. The pizza was fantastic. No one is going to pay 10$ for a crappy tasting pizza. They then cut out the ball pit. They then cut out the tubes. So all day hang outs at chuck e cheeses went out the window. I would spend more money over a day than just an hour visit easily. They got rid of token and did the cards. Tokens was one of the most fun part. Hearing it clank like a casino jackpot was addicting. They cut every corner from 2006 to now to maximize profits and it went into the toilet with every penny they saved.
Actually that makes a lot of sense. The very last slice I had of pizza there tasted like garbage. One of the reasons I loved going there as a kid was the pizza was good!
I don't know about that as far as pizza quality. Kids tend to like crappy pizza alright and parents are going there for the kids. Hell, bowling alleys I've been to don't have very good food at a high price and I see plenty people getting it. I think it has more to do with kids having access to high quality games at home. Arcades in general have been hurt from that.
Franchise rules: 1. If a store is losing money, either find out why and fix it, or close the store. 2. Always be looking for ways to cut costs without degrading customer experience. 3. Keep up with the changing times. 4. Expect large scale problems such as recessions, and be prepared to weather them. 5. Listen to your customers, but also listen to your employees who work directly with them. 6. It's okay to grow aggressively, but be wary of growing recklessly. Wild success can cloud your judgement.
It's lame without tokens. The sound made such a big difference in the way that place felt. I am also biased because my dad worked for the factory where the tokens used to be made
In high school, my girlfriend worked at CEC. One day they had a birthday party, but no one to be Chuck. So I donned the costume and worked the party. I hated almost every minute of it. It smelled horrible in that helmet and rowdy kids are kind of annoying. But it did feel nice when little 3-4 years old would shyly walk up and hug my leg and then run back to their mommy all happy.
Three things made us stop going there (1) my kids hated the electronic pass cards. The found the coin tokens far more fun. (2) it was operating on such a cheap budget that they could barely fix anything, and it started to be run down, (3) that same cheap budget made them get the cheapest employees and lowest class customers, and it basically became a bad "neighborhood" in the stores.
I mean you don't have to be shy, it went from where all races went there to where ghetto African Americans went to and then you get videos of these adults fighting because they don't know how to control themselves out in public, and they let their kids run wild and break stuff and become little hood gatherings. That's basically the truth
did anyone else cry, get freaked out, or feel uncomfortable when that one guy in the chuck e. cheese costume walked around and tried to hang out with the kids.... i did not ef with that i tell you
Is it weird that I was terrified of Chuck E. Cheese’s when I was younger? All the time when the guy in the suit would come out I would hide in the play set thingy and stayed there crying until he was gone. Those were some of the darkest memories I’ve ever had as a 3-7 year old.
I was scared of him but had no idea what to do he would just act werid and run to me and hug me I was soo scared he looks creepy, and once he was standing somewhere and he kept staring at me ngl
i remember during the pandemic, Chuck e Cheese survived by selling pizza through door dash, postmates and uber eats. they listed as Pasquale's pizza(because there was no flashing lights, giant arcade games and other stimuli to distract people from the fact that they have lousy pizza) a few outraged delivery people blew the whistle when they found out Pasquale's pizza was just chuck e cheese pizza, it was kind of a scandal.
It was called "Pasqually's Pizza and Wings" and it didn't take long at all for people to realize that it was Chuck E. Cheese in disguise... atleast their pizza is actually pretty good now, as they changed their recipe back in 2014. Their old pizza was like cardboard!
I had a friend who worked at Chuck-E-Cheese’s. She said there were parents who would drop off their kids, give them a handful of tokens, or later on the electronic cards, and then just leave them there for the day as cheap daycare, or worse use it as a place to abandon them. Those kids were taken in by the police who would contact CPS to report child abandonment.
It's ok Togami-kun even I miss my childhood pizza place Note: I actually went to Chuck.E Cheese and the character that creep me out was Chuck.E Cheese when I was a kid
When I was younger, I remember Chuck E Cheese being bigger and also remember a ball pit. I had alot of great memories there. As an adult, all I see a couple of crappy games. On top of that, the workers seem like they hate their lives. It just gives you a bad vibe as a parent.
I'm Dutch and we don't have chuck-E-cheese here. I remember so well visiting America when I was small and how flabbergasted I was when we went to chuck-E-cheese. I remember having so much fun there.
All i know of this company comes from watching american cartoon network during one of many trips Chuck e. Cheese pizza where a kid can be a kid. Got it on my brain
Fun fact at night the guard that actually works there has to keep a spare helmet because the animatronic has face recognition and if it sees someone it will see them as a threat and attack them
11:23 same for me, last time I went was 20 years ago was there for my birthday party (was 8 or 9) I remember there was a remote controlled airplane that you could re-deem for 8,000 tickets. Actual cost was $80-100USD, but the tickets were easily $3-4,000 in equivalent. Sad to see Chuck E. Cheese be in such dire straits, but at the same time, with how entertainment has evolved int he past 20 years- it was inevitable. Thanks for taking me down a trip through memory lane.
if theres a security guard with a name “William” “Mike” or any last name of “Afton” we all know (or anything else) i’m already done knowing nightshifts there have to wear An Animatronic helmet due to FACIAL CONTACT (literally 😭) doesnt THAT SOUND FAMILIAR *puts on freddy mask* 😌
My Chuck E Cheese was still using that freaky 80's rat costume in the mid 2000's. Haven't been back since then, but I'm sure it was around even longer than that. The place really hadn't been updated at all since the late 80's. Was starting to look like a horror movie.
There is also another reason why Chuck E. Cheese is in its decline, and that's because ALL of the locations decided to REMOVE and SCRAP the animatronics and replace it with a dance floor.
Chuck e cheese helps kids a lot- and example is blowing there nose ;-; But I really think it’s a danger because- his HUGE hand goes right in front of the kids face At any time he could be suffocating the child without the parents noticing thinking he is helping So it’s really a 50 50 chance :/
@@sm_miyah You think the costume is something to worry about? I mean, people on both ends have it bad when it comes to the walkaround costume, but I think we can agree that the real problem is the poor placement of CEC franchise stores in low-income communities.
The Chuck E. Cheese story is one that I share in my high school Business Management class. It was a personal situation that my father experienced in the '80's He had bought shares of Chucky Cheese and when they went backrupt he lost all his money. Fast forward to today (2022)...we are getting ready to celebrate my granddaughter's 5th birthday at one of the few Chucky Cheese locations left in my area. The last time we went (4 years ago), the older granddaughter was 8 and she was disapointed because of the games and she could only get cheap toys with her tickets. This upcoming visit will probably be our last, which makes me sad as I have great memories of taking MY children to CEC. The end of an era.
I’ve only stepped foot into Chuck E. Cheese once when I was around 10. Growing up poor and watching their commercials during Saturday morning cartoons, I used to think only rich kids go there.
Where I grew up, Chuck E Cheese used to redeem good grades on school report cards for free tokens. So we'd go there for free every semester. We never bought pizza or anything there cause we were poor though.
I had my first Chucky cheese party at age 26 this summer 😂. I had told my wife a few months back when we drove past a chucky cheese that I never had a party there growing up considering how popular it was at the time… sure enough this summer she told me we were going to a kids bday party there but when we went inside all my family and her family was there. It was awesome I was the only grown ass man playing with all the kids I even gave all the kids all my tickets at the end 😂
Thystaff Thywill do know the arcade games at arcades it’s like 5 tokens/dollars to play a crane game the only fun ones are the shooter ones with a friend and those ones are expensive
Fun fact: after PTT and SBP merged into one company, they originally wanted to keep the showbiz characters around. They approached the creator of the showbiz animatronics, Aaron Fechter, and asked to buy off his characters. He actually got pretty mad about the idea of merging his characters with the pizza time theater characters, and they were actually forced to use only the PTT characters as they no longer had Aarons blessings to use the rockafire explosion.
@@companyman114 It was an excellent addition to the story, I kind of know the history of this company but this part was never told, its these kinds of things that make stories interesting.
The ticket Blaster is the best. I remember as a kid the boys at a birthday party eating alot of pizza,farting in the ticket Blaster and convincing the girls to go in to try to win tickets. There were no more chucky cheese parties after that but you know it was a good one if you still remember it.
We take our special needs daughter to CEC at least twice a month. On the advice of her coach, we started out every Saturday to improve her hand eye skills and to exercise her eyes. Stimulate her eyes. She was 4 when we started. She is 14 now. She cried a lot when they were closed. But the guy who played CEC, would send her texts and things as Chuck. We love CEC, because of how they have helped my girl.
Last I went (four months before the pandemic) I was extremely unimpressed. The animatronics were dead, busted, not operating. To entertain these *children* the staff (too few and overworked) put on a *vhs tape* on a television likely yanked from a 1990s classroom. The place was an absolute trash heap, nobody seen attempting to tidy it, and probably 2/3 of the games were down. If the company exits our daily life and enters forgotten history, it’s because they didn’t invest money into bigger and better attractions and instead cruise controlled off a cliff. Constantly cutting costs never prospered anybody. And yes, kids want some gotdang tokens, not a gotdang subway pass. Give them the filthy pirate treasure they crave, gotdangit.
So fun fact: I used to work as a security guard for a shopping area that contained a Chuck E. Cheese. I didn't work in the place itself but my job was to walk around and report anything suspicious. There were like 15 stores on that little block. Guess which place found a corpse in their bathroom right after closing.
Okay it seems people want the story here. So again, I was the security guard for the whole plaza, not Chuck E. Cheese itself, so I wasn't in the store when it happened, but I was doing my usual rounds, all was well, I went to the back to write down that all was well the previous hour, and I went back out. Suddenly there are police cars everywhere and an ambulance. Naturally, I'm confused. I was just out there and everything seemed fine. So I went to talk to the employees outside. What had happened was, after closing, one of the male employees went into the boys' room to clean it. Usual closing time stuff. Except he found a man's body and a second man who was so high he was unresponsive. From what they could tell, they both went into the bathroom, injected themselves with something, and one of them died from the overdose. Neither man had any children in the restaurant, thank goodness. What possessed these two men to go into a Chuck E. Cheese bathroom and shoot themselves up with drugs (I think it was heroin but I don't remember if I found that out or if it was a theory someone had) remains a mystery, but I was there 2 hours past the end of my shift getting all the information I could about what happened so I could fill out a report on it. Far as I know, the second man survived. I saw them taking the body out under a white cloth and everything. No one there knew either person in the bathroom. The employees were pretty shaken up but I checked in later and they were okay. I was surprised at how okay they were, actually. I guess this isn't the worst thing they've seen. This was summer 2016 in the Gaithersburg Square shopping center in Maryland. I just looked it up and I can't find any news coverage on it, but I very vividly remember this so I know I didn't make it up. I remember finding it morbidly funny that out of every place on that plaza, it was Chuck E. Cheese that gave me the craziest incident I'd ever witnessed on that job. I don't work there anymore though.
I remember going there and whenever I would run out of tokens and my mom would refuse to buy me more, my sister and I would look behind all the machines and all over the floor for extra tokens so we could keep playing! Occasionally we would find some that someone dropped and it was the most exiting thing!
Photo of my and my brother at CEC in the late 80’s, me with my front temple braid hair and leg warmers, my brother with his flat Mohawk and Twister Sister t-shirt (given time him by our older brother), we were in the ball pit with my brother standing up and I’m laying on my back in the balls as he’s holding me up.
This was my first job at 16 years old in 1983. I could go on all day with stories about how awful they treated the employees but the bottom line is that I never set foot in Chuck E. Cheese again. This also motivated me to never work in another entry level service job. So thanks for the life lesson and good bye Chuck.
Estra 14 I mean, there has been strange things happening in a couple restaurants, like strange animatronic movement, night guards dying, and having to wear a animatronic mask when cleaning at night just so they don’t think you’re a burglar
@Ilyass Abbad yea like me, i had nightmares of freddy back then and stayed up all night staring at my door thinking freddy was gonna come in, grab me, and eat me
@@ashr.k5041 same ! But I loved it so much Nothing was better than going to cash in your tickets in at a machine with Mr.munch on it Another thing I loved at chuck e cheeses was the iconic ice cream vending machine that had this like… weird sucky vacuum thingy that got your ice cream from these small square freezers I loved every last bit of it Even though (most likely) someone had pooped in the playplace I miss those crazy tubes
Where do you live for there to be piss and shit in a Chuck E. Cheese? Never in my life have I seen or heard about such nonsense. These are human restaurants dude.
You should do one on The Discovery Zone. When I was a kid I never understood why kids wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese's when The Discovery Zone was so much more fun!
I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese when I was a kid, and we drove really far, but when they closed that location many years ago, I haven’t went to a CEC since they closed it down. I remember collecting so many tickets just to redeem a GBA of SpongeBob!
I believe I have at least 400-500 tickets from chucks e cheese because I got an unlimited thingy for 1 hour because of a field trip and brought the tickets home. I still have pretty much all of them and my brother did the same so we have around 900 tickets lol
I didn’t even like it as a kid.. I found the place annoying and I told mom if you throw me a birthday party there I’m not going LOL she was fine with that she didn’t like it either
John Iii my parents didn’t like it the first time, they never drove there, I would only go there with my friend’s parents in their birthday parties. I went few times a year!
Am I the only one who thinks that adding play pass cards was kind of a bad idea because I think most people enjoy being able to see how many coins they have left and how many tickets they get
i hate the play pass cards last time i went everytime i tried to play a game i had to scan the card and it just didint work well at all i was hard just tryna play a game
@@youngchap4941 thats also the fun part. in old days we needed beat nintendo and blow on the game. and with ps1 we had to spin, un plug, spin etc. it was an adventure to get game setup, thats what made it so super fun :D
Let me weigh in as a parent of four 90's kids. They turned into little casinos. All the kids could do was to drop coins at one point. We stopped going when most of the activities were non physical and non skill based. I just felt like they were emptying my pockets and there was no value.
With the amount of merchandising FNAF has had over the past 5 years its astonishing they haven't. By the time they do however it would probably be to late
Ah, the nostalgia of overpriced crappy pizza, out of order games, the matted fur of dead-eyed animatronics, and rickety indoor playground tunnels that perpetually smelled of urine. Fun times
i honestly hope they’re able to stay alive until i have my kids which would be in a good 20 years 😂 but growing up chuck e. cheese was one of my childhood highlights. nothing compared to getting out of school and begging my mom to take me there and playing in the tubes or playing the bowling game with the small blue balls.
As a former employee of 17 years at Chuck E. Cheese. I can say this is pretty accurate. Everything about the company from a guest standpoint and an employee standpoint went down hill when Apollo took over.
I don't know what I was thinking Leaving my child behind Now I suffer the curse Knowing now I am blind With all this anger, guilt and sadness Coming to haunt me forever I can't wait for the cliff at the end of the river Is this revenge I am seeking Or seeking someone to avenge me Stuck in my own paradox I wanna set myself free Maybe I should chase and find Before they'll try to stop it It won't be long before I'll become a puppet It's been so long Since I last have seen my son Lost to this monster To the man behind the slaughter Since you've been gone I've been singing this stupid song So I could ponder The sanity of your mother I wish I lived in the present With the gift of my past mistakes But the future keeps luring in like a pack of snakes Your sweet little eyes Your little smile, is all I remember Those fuzzy memories mess with my temper Justification is killing me But killing isn't justified What happened to my son, I'm terrified It lingers in my mind And the thought keeps on getting bigger I'm sorry my sweet baby I wish I've been there It's been so long Since I last have seen my son Lost to this monster To the man behind the slaughter Since you've been gone I've been singing this stupid song So I could ponder The sanity of your mother
Newsflash; if your restaurant is seen as an obnoxious children’s restaurant, and you then try to appeal to adults, you’re only gonna divide your customers. Children won’t want to go because it’s boringly corporate and parents won’t want to go because it’s not designed for them.
You missed the lack of appeal of arcades in general and the quality of the pizza product not being stellar. Video games are far more robust in home now and more common that arcades are a novelty people don't really appreciate anymore. The market just isn't there. You have to up the arcade game appeal (think theme park) in order to compete with home gaming. And probably up the pizza quality as well. Just mho
My local chuck e cheese barley even has. Any actually vidoe games just mainly games that games you use to get tikets but it doesn't matter because no matter how many times younger you jus tend up with a rubber spider and a few pieces of candy
Might just be a matter of culture, honestly. Japan has consoles the exact same way the west does yet the arcade industry there is more alive now than ever, pandemic aside. I think the video provided far more realistic reasons than just arcades in the west in general losing popularity for the downfall of the company.
Ya know that huge four player Mario Kart in good arcades? They never had any good machines at Chuck E Cheese, not even close. And their pizza sucked. No wonder they recycle it!
@@companyman114 yes there is a whole video waiting to be made on why the company went with the chuck e cheese name instead of showbiz, and how the showbiz mascots are still making new material on TH-cam.
(Yes, I am aware that this is just a joke) For reals though...Internationally, FNAF made Chuck E Cheese so much more boppin and popular because of the fact some people who don't live in America or has a Chuck E Cheese in their country (like ours) didn't even know what that pizzeria was.. and most of those people found out or knew about Chuck E Cheese through FNAF. And it has been my dream ever since to actually visit Chuck E Cheese. Too bad that now it seems like I'll never be able to visit one now..
@@Nikexel it's really crazy to me that someone really wants to go to a Chuck E Cheese. When I was an only child (living in California), I went almost every month, and when I was no longer an only child still visited it many times but not as frequently anymore, so it's not really a special place to me. Especially because most people I know have been to a Chuck E Cheese at least once in their life. And I'm not saying this to brag, I'm just genuinely surprised and didn't know how popular it would become amongst FNAF fans who don't have a Chuck E Cheese in their area/country.
Chuck E Cheese:closed due to kids missing and awful smells FNAF fans: T H E M A N B E H I N D T H E S L A U G H T E R Scott Cawthon: I DIDNT THINK THIS WOULD HAPPEN
One of my all time favorite memes is from the Showtime Pizza place, it was an ad in a newspaper or magazine, and that creepy Charles Entertainment Cheese knock off is sitting behind a family, and the ad says "Save your family from expensive meal prices", or something like that, then at the bottom it just takes part of that quote "Save your family"
That moment when you were a child, it was either your birthday or a friends birthday, you order pizza and you have your dad put in a 20 dollar bill in exchange for golden tokens, you feel good holding a bracelet that was made of paper, playing arcade games, and all the noises that happened the second you step in
Then when u run out of tokens it turns into an adventure to find more because when u asked ur parents they said it was too expensive. After all your efforts to find more coins fail u contemplate stealing coins from someone who wasnt paying attention, but then think about wat could happen if u get caught. So after thinking of all possible outcomes u go play in the ball pit. I miss Chuck E. Cheese
I well early this year before covid I went to a Chuck E. Cheese for my cousins birthday and most of there games have the pass thing and the thing to put the tokens in wich I find very good because I could still use the tokens I had left from last time I went to Chuck E. Cheese
I remember when I was younger I used to love going there I rarely ever got to go but when I did usually we would leave before I used up all my tokens so I would take them back home and save them up until we went back so then I would have extra tokens I thought I was so smart but nowadays it's just not fun going there anymore I went there about two years ago I think in the play pass I really don't like it not to mention your put on a timer so once that timer is up you can't play games anymore it won't let you so honestly they've just taken the fun out of Chuck-E-Cheese I can see why they aren't getting any business
Chuck E Cheese: A powerful rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese Chuck E Cheese now: *A powerless rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese* ShowBiz Pizza Place: Well well well...how the turntables A Chuck E Cheese birthday party is a perfect way to describe the UK's House of Commons when you think about it...
it’s all fun and games until you work til night shift. just imagine having to go backstage and run into those animatronics. i don’t care how old i am, that shit would freak me out. 😂
Imagine having to work as a tech or repair person and having to go in to fix an animatronic. I do not give a shit if I'm being a wimp, I'm not gonna go near an animatronic let alone open it up and work with wires, what if that thing turns on somehow and tries to move around?
I feel like a lot of it has to do with my generation becoming parents. Millennial parents are generally too poor to rent out the venue, pay for pizza, and pay for every round of games their kids ask for. Plus a lot of them (especially the more introverted parents) seem less concerned with big parties at brick and mortar places, and more concerned about germs, and kids/adults getting overwhelmed in that kind of environment.
I don't know how it works now but when I worked there in the early 2000s, the party price was based on the amount of kids you reserve for the party. I think there was a medium pizza for every 4 kids at $8.99 per. Tokens came with the party package and there was no renting of space. You got 1 1/2 hours for your party and could stay if no other party was scheduled for the tables.
I used to go to chuck E. Cheese's, for my birthday. I remember loving playing games like throwing the balls in the holes. Then I remember shaking chuck E. Cheese hand. I miss those days, but now I'm 29 years old. I think if you want to see what's like in your dreams, just go for it.
I think I only went once or twice about 15 years ago and apparently being scared of the guy wearing the Chuck E Cheese outfit. Thinking back about it I feel really bad even though I was just a little baby or toddler at the most lmao I do wonder where he is now…
I went to Chuck E. Cheese on Halloween in college with my friend because we had coupons for free personal pizzas and our Uber driver laughed at us on the way home because he thought he was taking us to a party but it turns out that Chuck E. Cheese was the party.
Sounds fun. My high school best friend would say she was going to have her 21st birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. We didn't stay friends that long though so Idk 😔
When Chuck E Cheese's worst year is 2014, the year FNAF is released: *Oh yeah, it's all coming together* I hope Chuck E Cheese builds a location at my palace. I'd love to climb in their SkyTubes (cough Diet McD's PlayPlace) with my best buds Dennis Rodman, Trump, and Putin. Putin has been dealing with so much lately so I feel giving him a break by inviting him there would be a nice breather.
@@cerryo4840 theres the belief that they dont throw away leftovers, they just take them back to the kitchen, combine it with other uneaten slices to create a new whole pizza.if you look up pictures of chuck e cheese pizza you can see most often none of the slices match, like none came from the same pizza.
Most people don't realize this, but the average 80's arcade was more suited to teens and NOT very kid friendly. Chuck E. Cheeze's really was just a family arcade which featured food as one more excuse to go there. So when arcades declined, so did CEC. My favorite memories of CEC were from the fair related attractions like skeeball, ball pits, and bouncy castles. And of course going to birthday parties (including my own).
One of the bad kids at school attacked Chuck... I can still see the dejected look on the face of the employee; standing there with that giant mouse head in his hands, post-assault.
@Westin Slaten fuck yea, thought that was just a local thing in Texas as they only have one in my hometown and I haven't seen an other one anywhere. We still have ours, but the games are wack now. Mr. Gattis was were I first played Tekken, Sunset Riders, Jurassic Park Arcade, Time Crisis... so many memories...
CEC was always my birthday spot growing up. When I drove past the one I always went to, I saw the sign gone and the windows boarded up. I pulled into it's parking lot and just ran through my memories of my childhood. I'm sad that it's gone so downhill, but hopefully in some small way they are still making kids smile and laugh
Growing up our Chuck E Cheese was next door to a liquor store and gun shop. God bless Missouri
Haha! I remember that Vine once.
_Let's go to the gun shop, then they we're going to the liquor store. If we put both of them, and put it into the Chuck E. Cheese's._
Godspeed for Chuck E. Cheese. **salute**
Do you mean a liquor store, and a gun shop. Or a gun shop that sold liquor.
When i vacationed In Alabama, it was an Adult Caberat and a Tobacco shop next to the Chuckie Cheese. EZ daycare I guess.
Finally, and entertainment plaza for all ages.
Are you taking about the one in Ellisville, because that’s the one I went to all the time?
I worked here for almost a decade. I'll tell you what went wrong. They changed the pizza recipe to make it easier and cost less in labor. For years we would make the dough from scratch ball it up, then rise it and roll it out and rise it again. The pizza was fantastic.
No one is going to pay 10$ for a crappy tasting pizza.
They then cut out the ball pit.
They then cut out the tubes.
So all day hang outs at chuck e cheeses went out the window. I would spend more money over a day than just an hour visit easily.
They got rid of token and did the cards. Tokens was one of the most fun part. Hearing it clank like a casino jackpot was addicting.
They cut every corner from 2006 to now to maximize profits and it went into the toilet with every penny they saved.
Actually that makes a lot of sense. The very last slice I had of pizza there tasted like garbage. One of the reasons I loved going there as a kid was the pizza was good!
You got rid of REAL arcade games and went with garbage ticket redemption crap. That's where you lost me...
I don't know about that as far as pizza quality. Kids tend to like crappy pizza alright and parents are going there for the kids. Hell, bowling alleys I've been to don't have very good food at a high price and I see plenty people getting it.
I think it has more to do with kids having access to high quality games at home. Arcades in general have been hurt from that.
So basically, chuck e cheese went down hill
So as a former employee what do you think about the many conspiracies and the complaints that the pizza slices do not match at all?
They should’ve paid their debt with Chuck E Cheese tokens
i see you everywhere lmao
Omfg this is my most liked comment/reply wtf
Lol
Very nice.
They tried but they only had enough for glow in the dark vampire fangs.
absolutely genius
Franchise rules:
1. If a store is losing money, either find out why and fix it, or close the store.
2. Always be looking for ways to cut costs without degrading customer experience.
3. Keep up with the changing times.
4. Expect large scale problems such as recessions, and be prepared to weather them.
5. Listen to your customers, but also listen to your employees who work directly with them.
6. It's okay to grow aggressively, but be wary of growing recklessly. Wild success can cloud your judgement.
7. don't get bought out by an equity firm for 1b
@@Seigmoraig1 😂
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3 is, unfortunately, too vague to be of use. How many companies chased fads and ignored their core business?
8. Recycle ♻️ food items & serve them to customers 😁
It's lame without tokens. The sound made such a big difference in the way that place felt. I am also biased because my dad worked for the factory where the tokens used to be made
@@screwedupmystic2597 hahah I remember doing that
Im ur 100th like
Mystic BWAHHAHAHHA I remember doing thatttt!
Bro I remember lifting a chair that was “stuck” to the floor and finding a ton of coins
I remember wasting all my tokens on this ride you could go on with Chuck E. Cheese 😂 i have so many pictures
Almost any time a company starts going downhill, you'll hear the phrase, "and then they were acquired by a private equity company."
"they were acquired by a private equity firm, and five years later, for probably unrelated reasons, they declared bankruptcy".
The business equivalent to ‘everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
If i would be right its like when ea buys a game studio and it beats the shit out of them with business quotas until th company fails
Vulture capital.
It's not always bad unless the acquisition is through a leveraged buyout.
In high school, my girlfriend worked at CEC. One day they had a birthday party, but no one to be Chuck. So I donned the costume and worked the party. I hated almost every minute of it. It smelled horrible in that helmet and rowdy kids are kind of annoying. But it did feel nice when little 3-4 years old would shyly walk up and hug my leg and then run back to their mommy all happy.
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Thanks for letting me hug your leg. You a real one. 🙏🏼
@@WileyGuy Kinda weird to tell that to someone on the internet.
@@margaritakouzi5630 that’s the point 😌
Y...you mean chuck e isnt real? 😓😓
Three things made us stop going there (1) my kids hated the electronic pass cards. The found the coin tokens far more fun. (2) it was operating on such a cheap budget that they could barely fix anything, and it started to be run down, (3) that same cheap budget made them get the cheapest employees and lowest class customers, and it basically became a bad "neighborhood" in the stores.
your kids dont give a crap about any of those 3 reasons, dont use them as a pitcher for your problems
And kids would take the Chuck E. Cheese tokens as a souvenir.
#3 is what did it for me and my mom as a kid
I mean you don't have to be shy, it went from where all races went there to where ghetto African Americans went to and then you get videos of these adults fighting because they don't know how to control themselves out in public, and they let their kids run wild and break stuff and become little hood gatherings. That's basically the truth
Only those who were born in the early 2000s would remember *Chucky Cheeses; proud sponsor of PBS Kids*
broooo I remember this ☠️☠️
🤣
The good old days
Yaaasss
I forgot about that
did anyone else cry, get freaked out, or feel uncomfortable when that one guy in the chuck e. cheese costume walked around and tried to hang out with the kids.... i did not ef with that i tell you
I did lol
I would hide in the slides one time he came up I screamed
lmao i got chased once
Me: STEP AWAY FROM THE CHILD I REPEAT STEP AWAY FROM THE DAMN CHILD!!!!!! I KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING!!
LoL btw ramen you should upload vids about cursed Comments, you seem to know about them XD
Is it weird that I was terrified of Chuck E. Cheese’s when I was younger? All the time when the guy in the suit would come out I would hide in the play set thingy and stayed there crying until he was gone. Those were some of the darkest memories I’ve ever had as a 3-7 year old.
s a m e
Dried Rice I wasn’t scared until i learn about fnaf in like 2015 lol
The man behind the slaughter
I was scared of him but had no idea what to do he would just act werid and run to me and hug me I was soo scared he looks creepy, and once he was standing somewhere and he kept staring at me ngl
Omg same!! I was also afraid of the Ronald McDonald clown for the McDonald's restaurant lol
i remember during the pandemic, Chuck e Cheese survived by selling pizza through door dash, postmates and uber eats. they listed as Pasquale's pizza(because there was no flashing lights, giant arcade games and other stimuli to distract people from the fact that they have lousy pizza) a few outraged delivery people blew the whistle when they found out Pasquale's pizza was just chuck e cheese pizza, it was kind of a scandal.
its called a ghost kitchen
It was called "Pasqually's Pizza and Wings" and it didn't take long at all for people to realize that it was Chuck E. Cheese in disguise... atleast their pizza is actually pretty good now, as they changed their recipe back in 2014. Their old pizza was like cardboard!
There’s a Pasquales here in Kewanee Illinois an baby it taste just like Chicago pizza it’s sooooooo good
FNAF: You’re weak
Chuck E. Cheese: I’m you
Fnaf is chuck e cheese not the other way around
@@barnacles1352 did u see the news of 5 children gone missing in chuck e cheese? it feels like fnaf is real.
*you're
@@teg69_realest its not it's fake
Lmao let me fix my garbage Grammar
I had a friend who worked at Chuck-E-Cheese’s. She said there were parents who would drop off their kids, give them a handful of tokens, or later on the electronic cards, and then just leave them there for the day as cheap daycare, or worse use it as a place to abandon them. Those kids were taken in by the police who would contact CPS to report child abandonment.
Jesus that's crazy
Ahahaha yea
@@mambamentalityripkobe9083 Some parents? All parents? What exactly are you talking about?
Damn, seriously? I heard things got hectic at CEC, but nothing like that.
Too bad you couldn’t make them clean.
Man, I miss those "Where a kid can be a kid!" commercials...
cresentia togami do be liking Chuck E. Cheese 😭😂
Is it bad that I never seen chuck e cheese commercials, also that I never went to chuck e cheese
It's ok Togami-kun even I miss my childhood pizza place
Note: I actually went to Chuck.E Cheese and the character that creep me out was Chuck.E Cheese when I was a kid
Yeah...
Byakuya Togami Same here
When I was younger, I remember Chuck E Cheese being bigger and also remember a ball pit. I had alot of great memories there. As an adult, all I see a couple of crappy games. On top of that, the workers seem like they hate their lives. It just gives you a bad vibe as a parent.
I'm Dutch and we don't have chuck-E-cheese here. I remember so well visiting America when I was small and how flabbergasted I was when we went to chuck-E-cheese. I remember having so much fun there.
MUCH FUN, with the video games, Lazer Tag, prizes for the tickets won, etc..., BUT the pizza SUCKED, all of us thought so.
🐻🤢🍕🤮🐻
@Zachary Rugar D&B, yeah, AND with better food!
@Zachary Rugar Yes definitely. Better games for 10 and above and with 10x better food.
@@NubarTrebor which locations had fucking laser tag?!?
All i know of this company comes from watching american cartoon network during one of many trips
Chuck e. Cheese pizza where a kid can be a kid.
Got it on my brain
They claimed they "out pizza'd the hut"
Plain n simple that nobody out pizzas the hut
LOL
Exactly
And then PIZZA... Sent out for THEM. _That's_ why they're in financial difficulties now.
😂😂
Any local ny pizza shop out does the hut!!! Pizza hut sucks! Loved it as a kid when it had a jukebox and arcade games. Now its junk!!!
Chuck E Cheese: *closes down*
FNaF Fans: "Hey, I saw this one!"
Chuck E Cheese fans: What are you talking about? It's brand new
@@ratchet55_m8 hm
r/underratedcomments
Fun fact at night the guard that actually works there has to keep a spare helmet because the animatronic has face recognition and if it sees someone it will see them as a threat and attack them
I’ve been training for this one
11:23 same for me, last time I went was 20 years ago was there for my birthday party (was 8 or 9) I remember there was a remote controlled airplane that you could re-deem for 8,000 tickets. Actual cost was $80-100USD, but the tickets were easily $3-4,000 in equivalent. Sad to see Chuck E. Cheese be in such dire straits, but at the same time, with how entertainment has evolved int he past 20 years- it was inevitable.
Thanks for taking me down a trip through memory lane.
Chuck E. Cheese's: files for bankruptcy
Fnaf fans: *oh yeah, it's all coming together*
yeSS xD
Lmao
if theres a security guard with a name “William” “Mike” or any last name of “Afton” we all know (or anything else) i’m already done knowing nightshifts there have to wear An Animatronic helmet due to FACIAL CONTACT (literally 😭) doesnt THAT SOUND FAMILIAR *puts on freddy mask* 😌
yeah, and kids even went missing in that place
Lol
The Five Nights at Freddy's timeline will begin shortly.
First things first, we need a bunny suit and five children.
Don't forget the lost mascots to the Original Chuckster here
I volunteer being one of the 5 children qwq
@@GlitchyOnAChair meh too
I would like to be one of the children
P0tat0Pleb UwU same here
5:15 “1984 is when everything went bad.” I’d say George Orwell agrees.
It was bad looooong before that (in George Orwell’s mind)
And we all know what happened in 87.
1984? uhhhh
Big brother is watching
It was the reference okay
They got rid of tokens, tickets, animatronics, and their old unique games. They took away what made them stand out.
Sometimes keeping those would fall them back into the times and people wouldn’t be around for it
Everyone talking about fnaf but I’m just shitting my pants about how terrifying showbiz’s Billy Bob animatronic is
@IDOL HELL He is NOT better than the rat.
Back when I was young I was afraid of Barney the dinosaur. But now I am loaded with a kylo ren lightsaber and ready to fight for my life
I've always been really afraid of the animatronics which is why fnaf comes to mind plus it's one of my favorite games lol
「MR. M O ONMΛN」 there is a horror thing that looks like showbiz animatronic eats child it’s from Hulu
@IDOL HELL billy bob looks like he wants to consume my soul
toys r us: closed
charles entertainment cheese: bankrupt
purple guy: *nervously chuckles*
Toys R Us has returned by demand, except on a mall-based smaller scale.
a guy
@From 18 to 508 Barney the Cat...
Nobody will get this, but, I THINK IM A BUNNY! YOURE A MONSTER YOUR A MONSTER MONSTER MONSTER!
@From 18 to 508 the killer in FNaF.
That old 80's rat costume is actually kind of freaky
True it is creepy
It always scared me back in the early 2000s
Yeah the scary 80's one is the Chucky from my childhood. That dude ruined more than one birthday party.
My Chuck E Cheese was still using that freaky 80's rat costume in the mid 2000's. Haven't been back since then, but I'm sure it was around even longer than that. The place really hadn't been updated at all since the late 80's. Was starting to look like a horror movie.
All the 80 s costumes I saw here were creepy
There is also another reason why Chuck E. Cheese is in its decline, and that's because ALL of the locations decided to REMOVE and SCRAP the animatronics and replace it with a dance floor.
Look at the comment below yours. It says how expensive it was to run the animatronics.
@@412StepUp it reminds me of a game
@@sedrah11it reminds me of Battle for Bikini Bottom where spongebob has to save bikini bottom from plankton
The chances of getting strangled by Chuck E. Cheese are low
But never 0
YES BUT IT SHOULD BE HIGHER
(•_•;) Oi what!
*chances of getting strangled by Chuck E. Cheese have decreased to 0 and then went up to 10000000000000000000000%*
Chuck e cheese helps kids a lot- and example is blowing there nose ;-;
But I really think it’s a danger because- his HUGE hand goes right in front of the kids face
At any time he could be suffocating the child without the parents noticing thinking he is helping
So it’s really a 50 50 chance :/
@@sm_miyah You think the costume is something to worry about?
I mean, people on both ends have it bad when it comes to the walkaround costume, but I think we can agree that the real problem is the poor placement of CEC franchise stores in low-income communities.
This place was my childhood, but the animatronics are still creepy as HECK.
shit used to scare me
I used to hide under the stage when they started playing.
thats what happens when you just "run with it" and accept the rat costumes lol
Five nights at chuckys
I agree it scared me
EVERYONE knows Chuck E Cheese died after they got rid of the tokens.. They were way better than some card
Agreed
Honestly I'm 14 and I said I wouldn't go back unless they used tokens.
ikr
They out pizza'd the hut and got fucked for it.
Yup I'm 12 and yah I use to like it but over the time I didn't like it
The Chuck E. Cheese story is one that I share in my high school Business Management class. It was a personal situation that my father experienced in the '80's He had bought shares of Chucky Cheese and when they went backrupt he lost all his money. Fast forward to today (2022)...we are getting ready to celebrate my granddaughter's 5th birthday at one of the few Chucky Cheese locations left in my area. The last time we went (4 years ago), the older granddaughter was 8 and she was disapointed because of the games and she could only get cheap toys with her tickets. This upcoming visit will probably be our last, which makes me sad as I have great memories of taking MY children to CEC. The end of an era.
How was it
I’ve only stepped foot into Chuck E. Cheese once when I was around 10. Growing up poor and watching their commercials during Saturday morning cartoons, I used to think only rich kids go there.
Actually no poor people took their kids there instead of Dave and Busters
MCDisney poor area?
Zack Michael ....yeah
Where I grew up, Chuck E Cheese used to redeem good grades on school report cards for free tokens. So we'd go there for free every semester. We never bought pizza or anything there cause we were poor though.
Only the parents are rich and they only walk-in like that
Short answer: They couldn’t out pizza the hut
xD
xD
Lol yes
💀💀
You do not want to know what happens to you when you out pizza the hut
Chuck E. Cheese’s: * Goes into bankruptcy*
Scott: *REAL LIFE SHOW TIME BUTTON*
That got me😂😂
Flamingo fan?
No really the fnaf Story is coming to life 5 children went missing on chcuky chesses
Neblox - Powering Imagination That was fake
FNAF ♪┌|∵|┘♪
I had my first Chucky cheese party at age 26 this summer 😂. I had told my wife a few months back when we drove past a chucky cheese that I never had a party there growing up considering how popular it was at the time… sure enough this summer she told me we were going to a kids bday party there but when we went inside all my family and her family was there. It was awesome I was the only grown ass man playing with all the kids I even gave all the kids all my tickets at the end 😂
Top tier wholesome comment. Genuinely loved reading it. What a wonderful wife you have!
The Comments Section Of This Video.
80% FNAF
10% The CEC Mascot Are Scary As Freak
Other 10% is the man behind the sluaghter
He was killed before he was able to finish this comment
I don’t see that many FNAF comments.
Other 10% please
9% other comments
1% this comment
The Chuck E. Cheese by me during covid had cardboard signs saying “please buy our pizza 5$” I don’t imagine them doing well
Same here
That's just sad. I picture Chuck E cheese the mouse standing outside the restaurant in raggedy clothes holding up said sign.
You aint have to put them out like that😂😂😭😭😭
Chuck E Cheeses didn’t get worse.
Their fans just grew up.
Yoooooo ;'(
Deep.
@Thystaff Thywill lol
No it just people got smarter not to bring there kids to a scam
Thystaff Thywill do know the arcade games at arcades it’s like 5 tokens/dollars to play a crane game the only fun ones are the shooter ones with a friend and those ones are expensive
Fun fact: after PTT and SBP merged into one company, they originally wanted to keep the showbiz characters around. They approached the creator of the showbiz animatronics, Aaron Fechter, and asked to buy off his characters. He actually got pretty mad about the idea of merging his characters with the pizza time theater characters, and they were actually forced to use only the PTT characters as they no longer had Aarons blessings to use the rockafire explosion.
5 kids go missing at Chuck E. Cheese
FNAF: Let us introduce ourselves..
It's a hoax
@Sans 2345 it’s a joke
One TURBOWPOWER I only jest.
Me: CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CJEESE
5 kids didint go missing
The story about the coyote costume being replaced with the rat costume was hilarious.... bravo company man.
Appreciate it. It was too good to leave out.
@@companyman114 It was an excellent addition to the story, I kind of know the history of this company but this part was never told, its these kinds of things that make stories interesting.
@@companyman114 so you left out dz the discovery zone which was aquired by chuck e cheese
@@companyman114 you should do a video about BlackBerry dying unless you did that already
@@sparrow8095 I see other videos on the rise and fall of BlackBerrys but I don't see any videos from company man
Their debt spiked in 2014, Five Nights at Freddy’s came out in 2014.
HHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I wonder what happened there
The ticket Blaster is the best. I remember as a kid the boys at a birthday party eating alot of pizza,farting in the ticket Blaster and convincing the girls to go in to try to win tickets. There were no more chucky cheese parties after that but you know it was a good one if you still remember it.
Are we not going to talk about how scary that “showbiz” Mascot was?
Stop doing that WE'RE TRYING TO REPRESS IT
it was horrifying
@@Chanel3-o1s it was
fr it looks like the one on that gravity falls episode lol
animatronics scare meeeeee
Chuck E. Cheese: We have sadly filed for bankruptcy.
FNAF: It's time to get *funky.*
to the left
take it back now y’all
-Sunny Dayzzz- 3 hops this time
Right foot let’s stomp
Criss Cross
Cha Cha real smooth
We take our special needs daughter to CEC at least twice a month. On the advice of her coach, we started out every Saturday to improve her hand eye skills and to exercise her eyes. Stimulate her eyes. She was 4 when we started. She is 14 now. She cried a lot when they were closed. But the guy who played CEC, would send her texts and things as Chuck. We love CEC, because of how they have helped my girl.
god bless you and her
❤️
That’s wonderful and I am so glad it helped her but I have to ask: It wasn’t too loud for her?
That’s so sweet
Nice
Last I went (four months before the pandemic) I was extremely unimpressed. The animatronics were dead, busted, not operating. To entertain these *children* the staff (too few and overworked) put on a *vhs tape* on a television likely yanked from a 1990s classroom. The place was an absolute trash heap, nobody seen attempting to tidy it, and probably 2/3 of the games were down. If the company exits our daily life and enters forgotten history, it’s because they didn’t invest money into bigger and better attractions and instead cruise controlled off a cliff. Constantly cutting costs never prospered anybody.
And yes, kids want some gotdang tokens, not a gotdang subway pass. Give them the filthy pirate treasure they crave, gotdangit.
So fun fact: I used to work as a security guard for a shopping area that contained a Chuck E. Cheese. I didn't work in the place itself but my job was to walk around and report anything suspicious. There were like 15 stores on that little block. Guess which place found a corpse in their bathroom right after closing.
Katie Marie YOU W H A T
_W H A T_
Katie Marie WHAT happened
Okay it seems people want the story here. So again, I was the security guard for the whole plaza, not Chuck E. Cheese itself, so I wasn't in the store when it happened, but I was doing my usual rounds, all was well, I went to the back to write down that all was well the previous hour, and I went back out. Suddenly there are police cars everywhere and an ambulance. Naturally, I'm confused. I was just out there and everything seemed fine. So I went to talk to the employees outside.
What had happened was, after closing, one of the male employees went into the boys' room to clean it. Usual closing time stuff. Except he found a man's body and a second man who was so high he was unresponsive. From what they could tell, they both went into the bathroom, injected themselves with something, and one of them died from the overdose. Neither man had any children in the restaurant, thank goodness. What possessed these two men to go into a Chuck E. Cheese bathroom and shoot themselves up with drugs (I think it was heroin but I don't remember if I found that out or if it was a theory someone had) remains a mystery, but I was there 2 hours past the end of my shift getting all the information I could about what happened so I could fill out a report on it. Far as I know, the second man survived. I saw them taking the body out under a white cloth and everything. No one there knew either person in the bathroom. The employees were pretty shaken up but I checked in later and they were okay. I was surprised at how okay they were, actually. I guess this isn't the worst thing they've seen.
This was summer 2016 in the Gaithersburg Square shopping center in Maryland. I just looked it up and I can't find any news coverage on it, but I very vividly remember this so I know I didn't make it up. I remember finding it morbidly funny that out of every place on that plaza, it was Chuck E. Cheese that gave me the craziest incident I'd ever witnessed on that job. I don't work there anymore though.
Never mind, it closed in June. That sucks, that was the one I used to go to as a kid!
I remember going there and whenever I would run out of tokens and my mom would refuse to buy me more, my sister and I would look behind all the machines and all over the floor for extra tokens so we could keep playing! Occasionally we would find some that someone dropped and it was the most exiting thing!
Like crackheads
*Exciting*
the secret spot was always the coin return where people didn't grab them all
Ya
Shoot my manger let me have free shit 😂 this was for 8 years
I still have pictures of me when I was a kid with a mullet at Chuck E Cheese's back in the late 80s or early 90s in the ball pit on my birthday.
I have a picture of me in one sporting the coveted bowl cut
Photo of my and my brother at CEC in the late 80’s, me with my front temple braid hair and leg warmers, my brother with his flat Mohawk and Twister Sister t-shirt (given time him by our older brother), we were in the ball pit with my brother standing up and I’m laying on my back in the balls as he’s holding me up.
This was my first job at 16 years old in 1983. I could go on all day with stories about how awful they treated the employees but the bottom line is that I never set foot in Chuck E. Cheese again. This also motivated me to never work in another entry level service job. So thanks for the life lesson and good bye Chuck.
5 kids go missing at ChuckECheese
FNAF : Let us introduce ourselves..
hmmmmmm yes, the floor here is made of floor.
YESSS
Nugget pls give me nugget of friendship
Can you give link to me please
@NuggetOG
hmm, yes 1 hour in London is 1 hour Japan
FNAF: *A video game*
Chuck E cheese animatronic: *Malfunctions*
Everyone who knows the storyline of FNAF: You know the rules., so do I
Shut Duck I love your name and profile picture
@@kell2883 same
**Grabs purple guy suit and a knife** UwU
*Takes a Purple Guy suit and knife, and hires a partners and takes the Check E cheese Robots while targetting my co workers wife* UwU
WTF THE RYPLYS UHHH
It’s kinda weird that the worst year of Chuck E. Cheese is 2014 the same year fnaf was released
Estra 14 I mean, there has been strange things happening in a couple restaurants, like strange animatronic movement, night guards dying, and having to wear a animatronic mask when cleaning at night just so they don’t think you’re a burglar
@@kaimartinez9846 lol oof
@Ilyass Abbad yea like me, i had nightmares of freddy back then and stayed up all night staring at my door thinking freddy was gonna come in, grab me, and eat me
Dani ??!?!?! Same bro shit was scary
Oh god....
I will always remember the sound of the ticket eater machine
IKRRR it actually scared me as a kid I thought there was a monster in there 😭
@@ashr.k5041 same ! But I loved it so much
Nothing was better than going to cash in your tickets in at a machine with Mr.munch on it
Another thing I loved at chuck e cheeses was the iconic ice cream vending machine that had this like… weird sucky vacuum thingy that got your ice cream from these small square freezers
I loved every last bit of it
Even though (most likely) someone had pooped in the playplace
I miss those crazy tubes
@@TronWizard yea man. I grew up with the early 2000s Chuck e Cheese. It was my childhood. Now I’m a legal adult 😭 I miss it so much
@@ashr.k5041 there’s one with all the characters on stage an hour from me in IL. I need to make the venture before they update it.
First Blockbuster than ToysRus and now Chuck E. Cheese's. My childhood is slowly dying
Slowly? More like at lightspeed
i miss blockbuster
But we finally got the Transformer movie we wanted. Now if somebody could finally get working on Voltron.
yep
I know it’s sad
I only remember the overwhelming smell of urine in the little kid areas.
Where do you live for there to be piss and shit in a Chuck E. Cheese? Never in my life have I seen or heard about such nonsense. These are human restaurants dude.
I wish they actually cleaned in Chuck E. Cheese
@Jared Alonge same
@@JAlonge017 Same in my area. It always smelt like shit in there. Ruined my appetite.
Kids piss everywhere wtf it smelled like a New York subway in the ball pits
I found some shit in a ball pit when I was kid...It was pretty good tbh.
“The decline of Chuckie Cheese: What happened?”
Shane Dawson: *nervous sweating*
I love Shane ♥️he’s funny 😄
@@boatsandhoes707 oop- 💀☕
Boats and Hoes he’s canceled sorry sweetie 😅🤚
@@lethena6940 why? I didnt have my phone in the last month :/
Boats and Hoes no
You should do one on The Discovery Zone. When I was a kid I never understood why kids wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese's when The Discovery Zone was so much more fun!
I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese when I was a kid, and we drove really far, but when they closed that location many years ago, I haven’t went to a CEC since they closed it down. I remember collecting so many tickets just to redeem a GBA of SpongeBob!
I believe I have at least 400-500 tickets from chucks e cheese because I got an unlimited thingy for 1 hour because of a field trip and brought the tickets home. I still have pretty much all of them and my brother did the same so we have around 900 tickets lol
*_rat casino_*
Captain Yolo Waffle my cousin brought in a lot of tickets, he gave them to me to redeem them so we get the GBA game.
I didn’t even like it as a kid.. I found the place annoying and I told mom if you throw me a birthday party there I’m not going LOL she was fine with that she didn’t like it either
John Iii my parents didn’t like it the first time, they never drove there, I would only go there with my friend’s parents in their birthday parties. I went few times a year!
Am I the only one who thinks that adding play pass cards was kind of a bad idea because I think most people enjoy being able to see how many coins they have left and how many tickets they get
I agree! Tickets and coins made it fun.
They still have tickets but the coins were better because people would drop coins everywhere and you can steal them
i hate the play pass cards last time i went everytime i tried to play a game i had to scan the card and it just didint work well at all
i was hard just tryna play a game
As a da who brought his kids there, I felt like a god passing out coins to the kids.
@@youngchap4941 thats also the fun part. in old days we needed beat nintendo and blow on the game. and with ps1 we had to spin, un plug, spin etc. it was an adventure to get game setup, thats what made it so super fun :D
“...A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese.”
Haha love defunctland.
Be happy
Defunct land is the best TH-cam channel along with yesterworld. Those two are amazing
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a man of culture I see
Let me weigh in as a parent of four 90's kids.
They turned into little casinos. All the kids could do was to drop coins at one point.
We stopped going when most of the activities were non physical and non skill based. I just felt like they were emptying my pockets and there was no value.
I would not be surprised if someone bought a Chuck E. Cheese’s and turned it into a fnaf place
Somebody needs to I’ll go
Someone tell Scott Cawthon to save up his money & do this!😁
Cringe 😬
Seaside Psycho that’s cring dude I can’t believer it it’s so cring omg I’m dying cring cring cring cring fnaf sucks cring cring 🤬🤬🤯🤯😫😨😕😰😫😫😩😑😑😠😑😑😫😫😫🤫😩🤭🤗😡🤗🤔😩😫😬😠😠😤😧😖😐😫😐😠😤😑😑😬😤😤😬😬😤😤😬😬
With the amount of merchandising FNAF has had over the past 5 years its astonishing they haven't. By the time they do however it would probably be to late
Ah, the nostalgia of overpriced crappy pizza, out of order games, the matted fur of dead-eyed animatronics, and rickety indoor playground tunnels that perpetually smelled of urine. Fun times
Name Name lol
Ah the good ol days 😌
I feel bad for ur town's Chuckecheese, mines was great, had great pizza, games and entertainment, I loved going as a kid
and the smell of sweaty feet
@@nhnova1452 I think the one I went to as a kid was great at one point, but by the time I went, its glory days were long gone.
Do y’all think five nights a Freddie’s also made kids scared to go to Chuck E. Cheese’s?
True I was scared of the rat dude ;-;
Definitely
I had always thought that it made kids more interested in CEC
Welp they're lucky they can go there. I want to go there since the incident happened.
It made me scared and plus it fuccing 2020
i honestly hope they’re able to stay alive until i have my kids which would be in a good 20 years 😂 but growing up chuck e. cheese was one of my childhood highlights. nothing compared to getting out of school and begging my mom to take me there and playing in the tubes or playing the bowling game with the small blue balls.
They will be long gone. By the time you have kids they will be playing in the Meta verse or something new
Hill.j
Even if they were to exist, they wouldn't have the ball pits, sky tubes, or the animatronics
@@jasburger yeah. rest in peace to the animatronics
@@spingleboygle My nearest location that had the full band just got rid of them too
As a former employee of 17 years at Chuck E. Cheese. I can say this is pretty accurate. Everything about the company from a guest standpoint and an employee standpoint went down hill when Apollo took over.
Apollo?
@@sunshinesunflowerz1647 If you watch the video or google, Apollo is a private equity firm that bought Chuck E Cheese.
That's interesting because everything has been going downhill at my company since Apollo took over too.
17 years my boy?
Damn son, you were a lifer.
Sorry but I had to “the man behind the slaughter”
Surprised no one else did that tbh
haha purple man go stab stab
I don't know what I was thinking
Leaving my child behind
Now I suffer the curse
Knowing now I am blind
With all this anger, guilt and sadness
Coming to haunt me forever
I can't wait for the cliff at the end of the river
Is this revenge I am seeking
Or seeking someone to avenge me
Stuck in my own paradox
I wanna set myself free
Maybe I should chase and find
Before they'll try to stop it
It won't be long before I'll become a puppet
It's been so long
Since I last have seen my son
Lost to this monster
To the man behind the slaughter
Since you've been gone
I've been singing this stupid song
So I could ponder
The sanity of your mother
I wish I lived in the present
With the gift of my past mistakes
But the future keeps luring in like a pack of snakes
Your sweet little eyes
Your little smile, is all I remember
Those fuzzy memories mess with my temper
Justification is killing me
But killing isn't justified
What happened to my son, I'm terrified
It lingers in my mind
And the thought keeps on getting bigger
I'm sorry my sweet baby
I wish I've been there
It's been so long
Since I last have seen my son
Lost to this monster
To the man behind the slaughter
Since you've been gone
I've been singing this stupid song
So I could ponder
The sanity of your mother
Ok but like the competing of the 2 companies is like Henry VS William, and the CEC entertainment is like Circus
Baby entertainment am I wrong?
U know that’s fake tho right?
chuck e. cheese: I-
fnaf fans: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Me in the corner trying to see the kids in the animatronics: (ง'̀-'́)ง
Vaneepoo :3 yeah I would climb in the playground and look in the mouth when they opened it but I would make sure they didn’t see me.
Yesh
I got the chucky heads and flashlights.
LETS FIX THESE ANIMATRONICS WITH A CONTROLLED SHOCK
yeah, and kids even went missing in that place
Newsflash; if your restaurant is seen as an obnoxious children’s restaurant, and you then try to appeal to adults, you’re only gonna divide your customers. Children won’t want to go because it’s boringly corporate and parents won’t want to go because it’s not designed for them.
You missed the lack of appeal of arcades in general and the quality of the pizza product not being stellar. Video games are far more robust in home now and more common that arcades are a novelty people don't really appreciate anymore. The market just isn't there. You have to up the arcade game appeal (think theme park) in order to compete with home gaming. And probably up the pizza quality as well. Just mho
My local chuck e cheese barley even has. Any actually vidoe games just mainly games that games you use to get tikets but it doesn't matter because no matter how many times younger you jus tend up with a rubber spider and a few pieces of candy
Agreed; once home consoles became the norm that was basically it for arcades unless they offered something particularly unique.
Might just be a matter of culture, honestly. Japan has consoles the exact same way the west does yet the arcade industry there is more alive now than ever, pandemic aside. I think the video provided far more realistic reasons than just arcades in the west in general losing popularity for the downfall of the company.
@@davids1854 Dont tell me. Let me guess. English isnt your primary language lol!
Ya know that huge four player Mario Kart in good arcades? They never had any good machines at Chuck E Cheese, not even close.
And their pizza sucked. No wonder they recycle it!
Had no idea their history was this complex. Great video.
Thanks Matt. Turned out to a lot more involved than I had thought too.
Fancy seeing you guys here. 🤘
@@companyman114 yes there is a whole video waiting to be made on why the company went with the chuck e cheese name instead of showbiz, and how the showbiz mascots are still making new material on TH-cam.
If you want more of the story, NPR's 'How I Built This" interviewed the creator. I highly recommend it!
AAAAND Welcome to another episode of CarBS
It’s simple;
They tried to out pizza the hut.
Well cause they was using Pizza Hut pizzas at first
The out pizza’d the hut in the end
They didn't try. They did. But it cost everything
Well, Dominos already succeeded in doing that.
My mom knew one of the the original owners and their kids of Pizza Hut
The brawls between parents at Chuck E Cheese is the biggest factor to their bankruptcy
"Making money every year"
Except 2014 where they were in the negative.
Lol, the first fnaf game came up in 2014
I wonder why,
Scott Cawthon....
(Yes, I am aware that this is just a joke)
For reals though...Internationally, FNAF made Chuck E Cheese so much more boppin and popular because of the fact some people who don't live in America or has a Chuck E Cheese in their country (like ours) didn't even know what that pizzeria was.. and most of those people found out or knew about Chuck E Cheese through FNAF.
And it has been my dream ever since to actually visit Chuck E Cheese. Too bad that now it seems like I'll never be able to visit one now..
I see you make hi3 videos
@@Nikexel it's really crazy to me that someone really wants to go to a Chuck E Cheese. When I was an only child (living in California), I went almost every month, and when I was no longer an only child still visited it many times but not as frequently anymore, so it's not really a special place to me. Especially because most people I know have been to a Chuck E Cheese at least once in their life. And I'm not saying this to brag, I'm just genuinely surprised and didn't know how popular it would become amongst FNAF fans who don't have a Chuck E Cheese in their area/country.
Chuck E. Cheese : who-who are you?!
Dave & busters : I’m you, but better.
Congratulations, you’ve (soon to be) won the internet
Or like somewhere in like 2039
Chucky cheese: who are you
Freddy Fazbear's pizza: I'm all the pizza places but BETTER
Ennard where did your failure lead you...back to me
amateurs
WHAT WAS THAT PUNK
playdium: amaetures
@@darkdavis6251 ew
Chuck E Cheese:closed due to kids missing and awful smells
FNAF fans: T H E M A N B E H I N D T H E S L A U G H T E R
Scott Cawthon: I DIDNT THINK THIS WOULD HAPPEN
Yea man
Dude, someone did a cover of it
th-cam.com/video/Mp781FtGJoQ/w-d-xo.html
^__^
That is fake
@@bababa25257 yup
One of my all time favorite memes is from the Showtime Pizza place, it was an ad in a newspaper or magazine, and that creepy Charles Entertainment Cheese knock off is sitting behind a family, and the ad says "Save your family from expensive meal prices", or something like that, then at the bottom it just takes part of that quote
"Save your family"
💀
i love how this guy just represents himself with a silhouette of a random guy
Could be his real silhouette.
I remember hearing in one of his video it is actually a silhouette of him
It's not a silhouette, it's a shadow person.
@@tommyanomaly6193 Semantics.
Poop
“sketchy locations”...this explains why one of the local chuck e. cheese’s growing up was right next door to a strip club.
Khaffit Where an adult can be an adult i guess?
@Khaffit 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏
@@lowqualityvideos8091 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bruhhhhhhh I'm dead
Lmao I thought I was the only one who grew up w/ a ghetto Chuck E Cheese
Business dropped when they stopped serving beer
That moment when you were a child, it was either your birthday or a friends birthday, you order pizza and you have your dad put in a 20 dollar bill in exchange for golden tokens, you feel good holding a bracelet that was made of paper, playing arcade games, and all the noises that happened the second you step in
Then when u run out of tokens it turns into an adventure to find more because when u asked ur parents they said it was too expensive. After all your efforts to find more coins fail u contemplate stealing coins from someone who wasnt paying attention, but then think about wat could happen if u get caught. So after thinking of all possible outcomes u go play in the ball pit.
I miss Chuck E. Cheese
I well early this year before covid I went to a Chuck E. Cheese for my cousins birthday and most of there games have the pass thing and the thing to put the tokens in wich I find very good because I could still use the tokens I had left from last time I went to Chuck E. Cheese
@@stainlesss00 .
I remember when I was younger I used to love going there I rarely ever got to go but when I did usually we would leave before I used up all my tokens so I would take them back home and save them up until we went back so then I would have extra tokens I thought I was so smart but nowadays it's just not fun going there anymore I went there about two years ago I think in the play pass I really don't like it not to mention your put on a timer so once that timer is up you can't play games anymore it won't let you so honestly they've just taken the fun out of Chuck-E-Cheese I can see why they aren't getting any business
I used to be so hyped about the UV stamp.
Chuck E Cheese: A powerful rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese
Chuck E Cheese now: *A powerless rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese*
ShowBiz Pizza Place: Well well well...how the turntables
A Chuck E Cheese birthday party is a perfect way to describe the UK's House of Commons when you think about it...
If anyone is wondering how is Chuck E. Cheese’s now, it has recently restructured financially and is out of bankruptcy.
Thank god it’s the only place with animatronics that I know of.
@@crimsonboi6022 most Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurants don’t have animatronics anymore
@@gecko8621 really? How come?
@@stevennguyen8935 at least the one where I live
@@stevennguyen8935 they said “the animatronics have become the side show”
it’s all fun and games until you work til night shift. just imagine having to go backstage and run into those animatronics. i don’t care how old i am, that shit would freak me out. 😂
Imagine having to work as a tech or repair person and having to go in to fix an animatronic. I do not give a shit if I'm being a wimp, I'm not gonna go near an animatronic let alone open it up and work with wires, what if that thing turns on somehow and tries to move around?
@@fukase__3745 dude that would be horrifying
Fukase__ I would nope the frick out of there.
5 night guards died to the animatronics there so I think you should be
just make sure not to run into the man behind the slaughter
I feel like a lot of it has to do with my generation becoming parents. Millennial parents
are generally too poor to rent out the venue, pay for pizza, and pay for every round of games their kids ask for. Plus a lot of them (especially the more introverted parents) seem less concerned with big parties at brick and mortar places, and more concerned about germs, and kids/adults getting overwhelmed in that kind of environment.
The pandemic is the final nail in the coffin for a place like this
Bob Bob planned-demic
I don't know how it works now but when I worked there in the early 2000s, the party price was based on the amount of kids you reserve for the party. I think there was a medium pizza for every 4 kids at $8.99 per. Tokens came with the party package and there was no renting of space. You got 1 1/2 hours for your party and could stay if no other party was scheduled for the tables.
Yeah, you Millennial parents really are fucking up the next generation of kids. Hahahaha
@@theodenednew8874 What is the difference between a "planned-demic" and a "pandemic"? Sorry for being dumb.
I used to go to chuck E. Cheese's, for my birthday. I remember loving playing games like throwing the balls in the holes. Then I remember shaking chuck E. Cheese hand. I miss those days, but now I'm 29 years old. I think if you want to see what's like in your dreams, just go for it.
I think I only went once or twice about 15 years ago and apparently being scared of the guy wearing the Chuck E Cheese outfit. Thinking back about it I feel really bad even though I was just a little baby or toddler at the most lmao
I do wonder where he is now…
I only got to go there when richer friends had birthdays, but it was pretty neat.
Bruh, memories
I went to Chuck E. Cheese on Halloween in college with my friend because we had coupons for free personal pizzas and our Uber driver laughed at us on the way home because he thought he was taking us to a party but it turns out that Chuck E. Cheese was the party.
riip
still sounds like it was fun and I remember their pizza use to be pretty good when I was a kid.
I would've laughed as well lol
Sounds fun. My high school best friend would say she was going to have her 21st birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. We didn't stay friends that long though so Idk 😔
Chuck E Cheese used to be the best place to play DDR
I told Charles to not get caught up with the mafia, but he wouldn’t listen, all he could hear was the soft flipping of the money in his hands...
Sounds like to me he is desperate
I told Charles to not get caught up with the mafia, but he wouldn't listen, all he could hear was the soft flipping of the tickets in his hands...
short answer: people don't wanna eat pizza around loud snotty kids
True
They're selling pizza under a different name.
yeah, most people didn't want to go there because of what happens in the play area..
disgusting
People did just that for decades, apparently. What changed?
@@TheNobleFive PE firms
When Chuck E Cheese's worst year is 2014, the year FNAF is released:
*Oh yeah, it's all coming together*
I hope Chuck E Cheese builds a location at my palace. I'd love to climb in their SkyTubes (cough Diet McD's PlayPlace) with my best buds Dennis Rodman, Trump, and Putin. Putin has been dealing with so much lately so I feel giving him a break by inviting him there would be a nice breather.
Suprised Shane Dawson didn't play a part in their fall.
Yeah, especially with him confirming the Pizza conspiracy
@@sahiralopez6146 What pizza conspiracy?
@@cerryo4840 theres the belief that they dont throw away leftovers, they just take them back to the kitchen, combine it with other uneaten slices to create a new whole pizza.if you look up pictures of chuck e cheese pizza you can see most often none of the slices match, like none came from the same pizza.
Jin worldwide handsome you know like how some pieces are bigger well he said that reuse pizza that wasn’t touch
Jin worldwide handsome 🤦🏽
Most people don't realize this, but the average 80's arcade was more suited to teens and NOT very kid friendly. Chuck E. Cheeze's really was just a family arcade which featured food as one more excuse to go there. So when arcades declined, so did CEC.
My favorite memories of CEC were from the fair related attractions like skeeball, ball pits, and bouncy castles. And of course going to birthday parties (including my own).
One of the bad kids at school attacked Chuck... I can still see the dejected look on the face of the employee; standing there with that giant mouse head in his hands, post-assault.
I miss Mr Gatti. He wad my favorite
And they got rid of there animatronics
@Westin Slaten fuck yea, thought that was just a local thing in Texas as they only have one in my hometown and I haven't seen an other one anywhere. We still have ours, but the games are wack now.
Mr. Gattis was were I first played Tekken, Sunset Riders, Jurassic Park Arcade, Time Crisis... so many memories...
@@regiirecords8829 Oh man, on the 1 hand that's terrible, still, I can't quit laughing at the image in my head.
At least we won’t have to see this ad in pbs kids anymore.
oh yeah
This was the best ad. Everytime i saw that ad i would ask my mom "can we go there?"
Those were the days.....
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 yes they were...
Yep
I worked at one 5 years ago and it was crazy. They also sell beer in their stores too
*5 kids go missing*
Fnaf fans: so that’s where purple man went
And strange movements and smells reported from the robots after hours
this is all fake it’s a hoax. this false info was made form desperate fnaf fans just wanting to stir things up
BriezyX
Kys
Fnaf fans: oh yeah, its all coming together
ThE mAn BeHiNd ThE sLaUgHtEr
Chuck E. Cheese: Where a kid can be a kid
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza: Where a kid can be dead
Lmao amen freddy
So is it true that the animatronics are evil child killers?
@@blacknbougie8021 they r the children whom died and get revenge
Lmao yes don't forget the body count across 3 or more killers 55 AND COUNTINGS KIDS YAY
I remember those animatronis terrified the shit out of me when i went there for my 6 or 7th birthday especially the female blonde one
**When FNaF Comes to life, and Now ChuckEcheese has Composition.**
Yes
You are not wrong
weres green guy
or purple guy
perdiodttt
CEC was always my birthday spot growing up. When I drove past the one I always went to, I saw the sign gone and the windows boarded up. I pulled into it's parking lot and just ran through my memories of my childhood.
I'm sad that it's gone so downhill, but hopefully in some small way they are still making kids smile and laugh