Posted on 12/09/2008 11:02:50 AM PST by Cecily
In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese's.
Officers have been called to break up 12 fights, some of them physical, at the child-oriented pizza parlor since January 2007. The biggest melee broke out in April, when an uninvited adult disrupted a child's birthday party. Seven officers arrived and found as many as 40 people knocking over chairs and yelling in front of the restaurant's music stage, where a robotic singing chicken and the chain's namesake mouse perform.
Chuck E. Cheese's bills itself as a place "where a kid can be a kid." But to law-enforcement officials across the country, it has a more particular distinction: the scene of a surprising amount of disorderly conduct and battery among grown-ups.
"The biggest problem is you have a bunch of adults acting like juveniles," says Town of Brookfield Police Capt. Timothy Imler. "There's a biker bar down the street, and we rarely get calls there."
It isn't clear exactly how often fights break out at Chuck E. Cheese's 538 locations. Richard Huston, executive vice president of marketing for the chain's parent company, CEC Entertainment Inc. of Irving, Texas, describes their occurrence as "atypical," saying he has heard of "four or five significant adult altercations" this year. But in some cities, law-enforcement officials say the number of disruptions at their local outlet is far higher than at nearby restaurants, and even many bars. "We've had some unfortunate and unusual altercations between adults at these locations," Mr. Huston says. "Even one is just way too many."
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WEFG!!! We once had a incident, where a parent didn’t like Joe’s looks & complained. The one time we went to that silly place for a cousin’s birthday party.
I agree totally!
See? Shoulda gone to the biker bar. Less trouble. ;^)
I try to avoid bars, lots of trouble there too ...lmao!
I got bit in the leg at a Chuck E. Cheese’s. That has NEVER happened to me at a biker bar . . .
The kids play, the Moms/Dads chat (and sometimes play air hockey or skee-ball with them) and nobody I know has ever has had a problem. Our school even has fund raisers there where they give back 15% of the sales to the school. I will admit its not my favorite food, but give me a break, its not like its a dangerous place, at least not in my neighborhood. I have never seen suspicious people or fights break out among any of the adults. The worst thing I have seen is a kids ran to get tokens from another boy who dropped his container. I think he got away with one token.
Dammed right if theres a place with nastier food I don't want to know it
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