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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Chuck E. Cheese parent company to close 34 locations permanently: Is your location on the store closings list?

All those Chuck E. Cheese tokens and tickets you've been hoarding are still good for now, but you might not have a local Chuck E. Cheese where you can use them anymore.

CEC Entertainment, the parent company of the entertainment-and-pizza venue geared toward kids, plans to permanently close about 34 locations that were still open when the coronavirus pandemic began.

The company, which owns the Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza chains, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Wednesday.

Late Thursday, the company filed a list of about 45 leases it plans to reject, including five in California, four in Florida, four in Massachusetts, three in Ohio and three in Oklahoma. The list included 11 locations that had already closed before COVID-19.(See below for the full list.)

CEC also requested a judge's permission to continue to honor game credits, tickets, tokens, gift cards, customer deposits, discount offers and loyalty accounts, as long as the company remains in business. The company has said it hopes to use the Chapter 11 process to shed debt and emerge as a more sustainable operation.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you go to Youtube and search "Chuck E. Cheese Fights" you'll see that this restaurant chain is an orgy of rioting black women fighting with each other, destroying everything, for no apparent reason. Much like the Jerry Springer show, Chuck E. Cheese is an exercise in human cockfighting of African-American ghetto vermin....no wonder it's folding up!

Anonymous said...

Talk about a potential....nah not gonna say it.....but as parents I bet we thought about it...

All those kids crawling all over the place. Hahahaha. Worst pizza ever...hahahaha....but the games were fun. Longest two hours ever!!!

Anonymous said...

During the 1960s and 1970s, a Chuck was an unenlightened white guy, especially in the Army during the Vietnam war. A significant number of Chuck junior Army field officers were given early retirement by friendly fire.

Anonymous said...

Chuck E. Covid sealed their fate.

Anonymous said...

Racist much?

Anonymous said...

8:35 has it right.
Chuck E. Cheese seemed to draw out the ghetto mamma's with their gangsters in training kids.

Anonymous said...

Northwest Woodsman: Thanks to 8:35, I need not comment any further. He is totally correct.

Anonymous said...

Hope the local one here is closing. It's nothing but a jungle of future thugs.