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WTF 👽 Chuck E. Cheese Restaurants = hotbeds of violent crime

You know having thought about this for a bit, I'd be pissed too to pay that much for cardboard pizza and watery beer.
 
MD Planner said:
That's a bit different though. I mean, after a certain time at night, everyone knows that easily 85% of the people in there are drunk!
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Interestingly, I'd bet that a similar percentage of problems at Chuck E. Cheese are caused by alcohol but they just start earlier in the day.
 
True, but it's an image thing. If I tell you there was a brawl at Waffle House you might picture a bunch of drunk rednecks at one in the morning. When some says brawl in Chuck-E-Cheese I picture a bunch of soccer moms pulling hair, dads trying to break it up, kids on the side looking shocked, and a giant mouse face palming.

Of course we are not the first to notice - or maybe we are - you can find some good brawls on youtube.
 
dvdneal said:
True, but it's an image thing. If I tell you there was a brawl at Waffle House you might picture a bunch of drunk rednecks at one in the morning. When some says brawl in Chuck-E-Cheese I picture a bunch of soccer moms pulling hair, dads trying to break it up, kids on the side looking shocked, and a giant mouse face palming.

Of course we are not the first to notice - or maybe we are - you can find some good brawls on youtube.
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I was at a Waffle House when it got held up in Spartanburg, SC.
 
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They had to throw this away after hink's birthday party.
 
Not quite on topic, but in a Walmart parking lot last night in Granbury, TX (just down the road from me), a 1 year old found a gun in the family car and shot his 3 year old brother and his mother (with a single shot). The mom had to be airlifted to the hospital.
 
Some places are just incubators for violent crime because they draw a certain segment that is prone to violence and hostility in the first place. I can't think of a worse place than Chuck E F**king cheese; it brings out the absolute worst in human behavior. The very layout of the place, with so many tables crammed together and so many in a confined space, along with hundreds of hyperactive kids, only serves to add fuel to the fire.

Chuck E Cheese is attractive to violence-prone people or people that are in their nature, looking for trouble. Just look at all the Youtube videos to see all the horror stories and the absolute bottom-of the barrel in terms of human slime. It is truly an awful establishment.
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Super Amputee Cat said:
Some places are just incubators for violent crime because they draw a certain segment that is prone to violence and hostility in the first place. I can't think of a worse place than Chuck E F**king cheese; it brings out the absolute worst in human behavior. The very layout of the place, with so many tables crammed together and so many in a confined space, along with hundreds of hyperactive kids, only serves to add fuel to the fire.

Chuck E Cheese is attractive to violence-prone people or people that are in their nature, looking for trouble. Just look at all the Youtube videos to see all the horror stories and the absolute bottom-of the barrel in terms of human slime. It is truly an awful establishment.View attachment 56198
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I did not know CEC was still around. Doing a little research, from Wiki...As of December 2022, there are 471 Chuck E. Cheese locations in the United States, and 97 locations in Canada (10), Chile (12), Puerto Rico (3), Guatemala (2), Saudi Arabia (24), The U.A.E (1), Trinidad & Tobago (2), Peru (9), Panama (9), Mexico (21), Colombia (1), Honduras (3), Costa Rica (1), Jordan (1), India (1), El Salvador (1), Bahrain (1), Suriname (1), and Qatar (1), a total of 568 Chuck E. Cheese locations across the world.

Showbiz Pizza acquired CEC in the 1980s and rebranded all Showbiz to CEC. I suspect the number of locations was higher in the past than the current 471 in the USA. I know of one locally that closed up several years ago...not because of a shooting, though. I went to one in Minneapolis in 1982 or so. Don't remember the pizza but remember playing Battlezone.
 
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