The Decline of Chuck E. Cheese's...What Happened?
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Chuck E. Cheese's has filed for bankruptcy, a headline I never wanted to see. This video investigates the deeper reasoning behind it while taking a look at their eventful history.
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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?
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
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
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 😂
Qi-
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 😁
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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
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....
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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!!!
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!
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
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
@@z0rnikal_mapping its not it's fake
Lmao let me fix my garbage Grammar
Lets be honest
The tube jungle gym is where the pandemic started
If you played in that pit, your probably not getting covid lol
Maybe not EVERY tube... The ball bit and the "car" with the steering wheel however yes.
Lma() this killed me.
Lmao
Some kid peed there before while working and one of us had to clean it .
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.
glooks
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? 😓😓
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.
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
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
*5 kids go missing and bad smells are reported*
FNAF Fans: *oh my god it’s happening, everybody stay calm*
I don’t like FNAF. My parents gave my sister and I birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese in the 80’s and then FNAF came along and ruined it for my kids.
Doodle Noodle That’s so true, but there is an article that says it’s fake. It’s sad that others don’t research to see if it’s true or not anymore.
@@genaeyoung180 ok boomer.
Hahaha yessss
Genae Young hush
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
*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
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.
Poor new generation, they won’t experience the fun at Chuck E Cheese.
Cough cough..... Me
what about Dave and busters
I mean they can probably become into fnaf
AL_emonade Dave and busters isn’t really suited for little kids like Chuck E. Cheese is.
TerbYern yeah
*johns incredible’s pizza*
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
I’m not even joking, half way I thought this was a joke and you were talking about the FNAF lore
yo same that was my reaction as soon as he mentioned 1983 HMM I DONT THINK SO SIR
He’s here he’s there he’s everywhere who ya gonna call Chuck E. Cheese rat dare
Idk why dare
They murder children and now the machines hold there spirts
Inco thought I was the only one-
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.
Their debt spiked in 2014, Five Nights at Freddy’s came out in 2014.
HHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I wonder what happened there
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
Everybody Gangsta till MrBeast donates all of his money to Chuck E Cheese
You mean his infite amount?
Please
Lenny Ultra no
@@null_502 he might because he's very genourous
The video I watched before this was a mr beast video
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.
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 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 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
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.
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
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
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
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.
People finally realized that rodents and pizza shouldn't go together
Guess Master Splinter never got the memo when feeding the TMNT.
I guess that's why my Pizza chain "Cockroach Pizza" failed...
To be fair, if they rebranded as Fazbear's Pizzeria... They would at least be able to live up to the horror of their animatronics.
no screw you mice and cheese belong together!!
pizza rat, duh
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 🤦🏽
“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
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!
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
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
I'm sure parents will DEFINITELY want to take their kids to a place where everything is dirty and their mascot is a rat...
Sounds like Disney Land 🤔
it's kind of a good metaphor for what america turned into
@@SplashCity253 ya know what... You're not wrong...
definitely doesn't sound like disney...
I always got sick after sooo
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...
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
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
What if Scott buys one of the restaurants and turns it into Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzaria
Its would probably make a lotta money.
Y E S
YES
Nah
YEAH THAT WOULD BE COOL
Plain and simple everyone grew up that use to love Chuck E. Cheese for what it was
We didn’t have iPhones
We didn’t have much technology besides the basics
Social media wasn’t a thing
All we wanted to do was get away from school and go to Chuck E. Cheese’s eat some pizza stay away from the electronics climb in the tubes
Play a couple arcade games
Get some tickets
And maybe get a 2k ticket prize
And go home
It’s not like that anymore
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 ♪┌|∵|┘♪
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
ruclips.net/video/Mp781FtGJoQ/видео.html
^__^
That is fake
@@bababa25257 yup
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
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.
"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.
“...A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese.”
Haha love defunctland.
Be happy
Defunct land is the best RUclips channel along with yesterworld. Those two are amazing
babeloveforyour.link/sL5yBn5UrvMp
a man of culture I see
Kids now: “ayo fnaf irl???”
Me when I see fnaf: *thats basically my childhood but a horror game*
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.
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
**When FNaF Comes to life, and Now ChuckEcheese has Composition.**
Yes
You are not wrong
weres green guy
or purple guy
perdiodttt
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.
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.
You forgot to mention a big change: they've gotten rid of the animatronics.
yeah, ever since the bite of '87, things haven't been the same
Busta 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Nice reference.
Which is a real shame, and IMO a bit of a bone-headed decision; getting rid of the thing that makes you unique isn't going to save your business when you're already hurting from lack of interest.
Yeah, but that's probably more due to changing tastes. It's when they ditches games like Skee Ball for those slot machine video games that kills me. Mark Rober has a video that demonstrates that pizza places are using machines deliberately cheating: ruclips.net/video/vXBfwgwT1nQ/видео.html
The animatronics are what made it special and memorable as a child.
RIP to the legendary child casino
Facts
Agreed with yung, this is straight facts.
It been died though
Facts bro
@@-jolixye-5424 ok fortnite kid
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
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 RUclips.
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
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’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
If Chuck E. Cheese got rid of the animatronics and served beer you can catch me and my homies there
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
I’m going to need a minute to digest Charles Entertainment Cheese.
Take all the time you need.
Company Man i dont know if there is enough time
Does that make the company name Charles Entertainment Cheese Entertainment?
Get the hell out of my pet store!
get it? ....digest
five night of freddys happened
After fnaf happened, younger me wanted to visit chuck E. Cheese even more
**fnaf 2 song starts playing**
Dude, you are here!? When are you going to put out 1100 days?
*at
@@cursedmicrophone3687 hes going strait to 2000 I think
I really loved Chuck E. Cheese's in the 80s when I was a kid. The problem was it was far away and thus only went there for my birthday. By the time one opened closer, I was outside of the target age range (although I still would have liked to go lol). I also think that the improvement of gaming consoles helped to hurt the company as the arcade games were just not as fancy anymore. Also, the animatronics would come to life at night at stalk you!
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
Everything started going downhill when those five kids disappeared
Sounds kinda familiar, doesn't it?
@@luka.7395 f n a f
William been real quiet😳
That’s fake
:o
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!
You forgot they have compitition now from Dave and Busters and later Round One Bowling and Enterteinment.
Is that significant?
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😂😂😭😭😭