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thenewgreen  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: As Chuck E. Cheese Goes So Goes America
Timely. I was just at a Chuck E. Cheese a couple of days ago. It's a dirty place, with really crappy customer service but it's extremely cheap. It's a place where you can take your kid, let them run around and play for hours and only spend 5 dollars on them. Oh, and something I never realized as a kid.... they have beer!

Don't think I'll be going back.





GoatFood  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Really? Five dollars? I've only been once, but as I recall those tokens aren't cheap. Especially when you consider how many tickets it takes to earn some five cent trinket.
thenewgreen  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Each token is worth a quarter and every game in there (that I saw) only took a quarter. From what I could gather, the thing that costs the most is the Pizza. It's crap pizza and it's not cheap. That must be where they make their money. Admission is free etc.
scarp  ·  4635 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Has it always been that way? I don't remember admission being free when my parents took me. I do know that the 'every game takes one token' thing is relatively new.
thenewgreen  ·  4635 days ago  ·  link  ·  
For all I know it could have been free admission Tuesday? There also may have been some 2 token games, my daughter is only 15 months old so it's as exciting to put the tokens in the machine as it is to play the games. She likes the "rides" where you sit in a car and it gently sways while music plays.

I do like their security. When you walk in, they put an invisible stamp on you and your child that are identical and they check them under a black light when you leave.

Seriously though, they are germ laden, big time. My daughter had a cough and a runny nose the next day that I completely attribute to C E. Cheese. -Par for the course though.