Chuck E Cheese Files For Bankruptcy Protection

[Peter Paltridge]

If 2020 had an official slogan, it would be “Where A Kid Can’t Be A Kid.” Children right now can’t get together with friends, climb on playgrounds, or see theater movies, and when all this settles down, they may not be able to go to Chuck E Cheese either.
CEC Entertainment, the company that runs most locations of the Chuck E franchise as well as a smaller chain called Peter Piper Pizza, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. That doesn’t mean they’re gone but it does mean they’re more likely to go in the near future.
Some readers may recall a weird news story making the rounds a couple months ago where a new pizza joint named “Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings” was offering food delivery. Those with encyclopedic knowledge of Chuck E lore immediately recognized Pasqually as the only human member of Munch’s Make-Believe Band. It was indeed Chuck E Cheese under an incognito name (maybe...

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[Fergal]

This feels just like when Toys 'R' Us closed for good.

We all gotta grow up sometime.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

But I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid.

 

[Supercat]

This is bound to happen. I never been to this place, not even as a kid so I won't miss it but I do know a few places I enjoyed over the years shut down in 2020. One was a comic shop I loved. I still drove 45 minutes back to my town growing up just to go there a few times a year. Found out they had to close because of the virus. Bad times man.