Free Large Pizza, Limited Time Only! with the purchase of 100 tokens @ Chuck E. Cheese's! with coupon

Well....ours isn't too bad of one, we have a 4 year old, and try and get there when they open at 9, because by 11, the plae is getting packed. The bathrooms are always clean, the pizza isn't the best, but it's edible and could be worse, the wings are frozen obviously, but not too bad, and we always have a heck of a time for around $40. Glad to see the newest batch of coupons, since I'm pregnant and due in summer, no summer vacation this year, so we promised one or two chuck e cheese trips. Never tried the salad bar though many people do...I feel like it would be obvious to tell if your food had been dropped on the floor and swept up, dirt, hairs, etc... I imgine some places probabibly do do icky things, but really...it's not right, and any manager that tells you to do that, should be reported anonomyously to the health department.

do you know what would happen if i showed up by myself to chuk e cheese, and asked for a table for one?

Quote from rtied : I'm hoping you intend that to mean you will be celibate. Rather than the other way that could be construed.

hahaha love it! but if he were going for priesthood it would be a good way to start.

only one song could express how I feel about that topic. H T P by Nuclear Assault!

but on topic... i happen to love the pizza too.... but unfortunately i cannot taste due to brain damage from an accident, so maybe it doesnt count? meh

Quote from cccheel : I used to work in the kitchen at Chuck E Cheeses in high school. I once spilled a whole tub of cheese on the walk-in fridge floor and swept it up and put it back in. I also threw out moldy cheese and was ordered by management to pull it out of the trash and use it on pizzas. Those ball pits are cesspools of bacteria (we cleaned the balls about once a year), snot, poop, throwup, piss, and other nasty bodily fluids, yet you go crashing in there with your kids? LOL on you. The salad bar stuff is rotated to make it look fresh. We used to soak the Kale on the salad bar in ice water and soap to make it green and people would eat that stuff! haha! I always hated dressing as Chucky, as it meant I'd get continuously get kicked in the balls and shin, have the nose pulled, thus straining my neck, and have to hug snot-nosed little kids. It was funny when you scared one, though. That's about it.

I'm calling shenanigans on this entire story

For what it's worth, I worked at Dairy Queen and the worst thing we did was deep-fry the bacon.
Oh and we didn't use gloves... we did wash our hands quite a bit though. (still seems like we should use gloves anyway, but whatever?)

Quote from rgf207 : I'm calling shenanigans on this entire story

Charlotte, NC

Quote from rgf207 : I'm calling shenanigans on this entire story

I wouldn't. I completely believe it.

First off, he admitted to working there. His appearance either doomed him to backroom work, or he was dumb enough to willingly work at a CEC for minimum wage, when there are so many better jobs out there for high schoolers. A person that dumb would have no problem serving paying customers floor-sweepings, or digging in the trash at the order of his mentally-challenged superior. He seems proud of his story to this day, and being paid $4.25/hr means he's old as hell. He's had plenty of time to reflect upon it and become ashamed of it, instead he relates it on SD as if we'd approve of it somehow.

He's more than likely some still some human stain sucking unemployment or disability, getting back whatever he thinks society "owes" him for being such a farking waste. Or perhaps he's still whiling his years away at some similar job making...whatever minimum wage is nowadays. As it is, he's reliving his glory days of high school with strangers on a CEC thread.

Quote from midn9strkr : Common sense would be that they make 90% on the tokens and not food. Games are all fixed costs with no spoilage/waste costs whatsoever, plus minimal labor required. Plus how much can you eat vs. unlimited game play (kids waste tons of tokens in a matter of minutes).

In a matter of SECONDS!!! Kids go crazy for these single token games. Like BONKERS

Quote from alansupra94 : I am assuming you have no clue how much a pizza costs to make or how much those workers get paid. They aren't professional chefs back there. Do you know how often those game break and require fixing? Do you know how many times the tickets get jammed in the machine and you have to reset it? You must have forgot about the upfront cost of the game and the power it takes to run them 18hrs a day. Or the cost of rolls of tickets required for the majority of games? I know because I use to fix the games at Chuck E Cheese in high school and we would be ordering new parts for machines every week. Ask any manager at Chuck E Cheese and they will tell you they make nothing on games, everything on food. That's like saying Fuddruckers makes all their money on their arcade in the back. I love watching people with no common sense agree with other people with no common sense.

I may not have a clue how much a pizza cost, but I know that it's hundreds of times more than the "cost of rolls of tickets". LOL!

Anyway, 5 to 6 workers working the kitchen (professional chefs or not), the register, and serving food versus just you the highly-paid CEO (Chuckie Engineer of Operations) fixing, resetting games, and clearing jammed tickets. (FYI, you get paid by the hour NOT per jam cleared or machine reset; unless, I'm wrong and you get paid on commission-basis per incident).

You also must have forgot about the upfront cost of establishing a kitchen to "cook" the food (installing the hood, ovens, fryers, refrigerators, salad bar, ice machine, water supply, plumbing, etc.) and the power it takes to run the kitchen 24 hours a day to keep the food fresh. Don't forget if something is in need of repair in the kitchen, I'm pretty sure you, even as talented a CEO as you were, wouldn't have been able to order a part and fix it. LOL!

So let's say all things being equal, the fixed costs for kitchen versus the gaming area are the same. Let's just focus on the variable food costs vs. variable costs of repairs and maintenance for the games:

Pretend in a year, $100,000 in food sales - $40,000 for the cost of food vs.
$100,000 in tokens sales - $10,100 [ ̶$̶1̶0̶,̶0̶0̶0̶ ] in parts and maintenance (almost forgot to add the costly rolls of tickets)

Which item generates more income?

I, too, love watching people with no common sense commenting on how they love watching people with no common sense agreeing with their no-common-sense selves.

Quote from midn9strkr : I may not have a clue how much a pizza cost, but I know that it's hundreds of times more than the "cost of rolls of tickets". LOL! Anyway, 5 to 6 workers working the kitchen (professional chefs or not), the register, and serving food versus just you the highly-paid CEO (Chuckie Engineer of Operations) fixing, resetting games, and clearing jammed tickets. (FYI, you get paid by the hour NOT per jam cleared or machine reset; unless, I'm wrong and you get paid on commission-basis per incident). You also must have forgot about the upfront cost of establishing a kitchen to "cook" the food (installing the hood, ovens, fryers, refrigerators, salad bar, ice machine, water supply, plumbing, etc.) and the power it takes to run the kitchen 24 hours a day to keep the food fresh. Don't forget if something is in need of repair in the kitchen, I'm pretty sure you, even as talented a CEO as you were, wouldn't have been able to order a part and fix it. LOL! So let's say all things being equal, the fixed costs for kitchen versus the gaming area are the same. Let's just focus on the variable food costs vs. variable costs of repairs and maintenance for the games: Pretend in a year, $100,000 in food sales - $40,000 for the cost of food vs. $100,000 in tokens sales - $10,100 [ ̶$̶1̶0̶,̶0̶0̶0̶ ] in parts and maintenance (almost forgot to add the costly rolls of tickets) Which item generates more income? I, too, love watching people with no common sense commenting on how they love watching people with no common sense agreeing with their no-common-sense selves.

A pizza costs approximately $2.00 cents to make, the cheese being the most expensive part and that is an extremely high ball estimate.

You lose.

Quote from shadowhsc : I wouldn't. I completely believe it. First off, he admitted to working there. His appearance either doomed him to backroom work, or he was dumb enough to willingly work at a CEC for minimum wage, when there are so many better jobs out there for high schoolers. A person that dumb would have no problem serving paying customers floor-sweepings, or digging in the trash at the order of his mentally-challenged superior. He seems proud of his story to this day, and being paid $4.25/hr means he's old as hell. He's had plenty of time to reflect upon it and become ashamed of it, instead he relates it on SD as if we'd approve of it somehow. He's more than likely some still some human stain sucking unemployment or disability, getting back whatever he thinks society "owes" him for being such a farking waste. Or perhaps he's still whiling his years away at some similar job making...whatever minimum wage is nowadays. As it is, he's reliving his glory days of high school with strangers on a CEC thread.

How can you be so acidly critical? You cannot analyze and sum up a life based on something their boss told them to do in their youth. When I was under 20, I was not yet so independent of mind that I would not let those in authority tell me to do something I would not do today, without which I would not have been fodder for the Corps. Examine and criticize your own life, if you wish, but please refrain from taking your bile out on someone you do not know.

Quote from GrandPaPa : How can you be so acidly critical? You cannot analyze and sum up a life based on something their boss told them to do in their youth. When I was under 20, I was not yet so independent of mind that I would not let those in authority tell me to do something I would not do today, without which I would not have been fodder for the Corps. Examine and criticize your own life, if you wish, but please refrain from taking your bile out on someone you do not know.

Go preach to some one else. Take half the time it took to write that scathing retort and reread his posts. He has no remorse for what he did, and very little of it was done at the direction of his boss. But I will take a step back and examine my own life, as you suggest.

When I was under 20, I respected my elders, my superiors, and helped those who could not help themselves. Since I was old enough to count money, I worked 40 hr weeks, counting 12 hr shifts during the weekends, in my father's convenience store. In that same time, I pulled straight A's and earned free rides to three top tier schools after high school graduation.

I can be acidly critical because while my upbringing may have been harsh and missing the freedom enjoyed by the typical youth, I never took it out on anyone. I sure as hell never foisted floor sweepings on the unsuspecting public. My karmic payback has been a life I wouldn't trade for anything else in the world, and comfort beyond what many 99%ers enjoy because I work hard, and play an honest hand in life.

Now, GrandPaPa, what if you took your grandchildren to CEC, or any other establishment, and found out after the fact that a paid employee had compromised the integrity of your food by spitting in it, or worse? Would you let it slide that he got his kicks scaring your kids when you weren't paying attention? Would you be mad that he posted it online for all the like-minded to enjoy? Would you rush to their aide when some one called them out on it?

Quote from alansupra94 : A pizza costs approximately $2.00 cents to make, the cheese being the most expensive part and that is an extremely high ball estimate. You lose.

"$2.00 cents" to make a pizza is still > $0.000001 "cents" for each ticket on a roll!

You are right; I definitely lose the no-common-sense award.

A Business degree from CEC University is reserved only for the minds of the best and brightest 1%.

Don't you know, people flock to Chuck E. Cheese for the high quality food!

CEC Entertainment Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter 2012 [corporate-ir.net]

($000s)		Three Months Ended
REVENUES:	April 1, 2012	April 3, 2011
Food and beverage sales	$115,902 (47.0 %)	$123,757 (48.3 %)
Entertainment & merchandise sales	129,524 (52.5 %)	131,459 (51.3 %)
OPERATING COSTS AND EXPENSES:
Cost of food and beverage	28,211 (24.3%)	28,903 (23.4 %)
Cost of entertainment & merchandise	8,975 (6.9%)	10,160 (7.7 %)
Labor expenses	61,668 (25.1%)	63,637 (24.9%)

Games (52.5% of Revenues) and (6.9% of Operating costs) vs. Food (47.0% of Revenues) and (24.3% of Operating costs).

Quote from midn9strkr : Quote from alansupra94 : Common sense would tell you they make 90% of profits on food. Common sense would be that they make 90% on the tokens and not food. Games are all fixed costs with no spoilage/waste costs whatsoever, plus minimal labor required. Plus how much can you eat vs. unlimited game play (kids waste tons of tokens in a matter of minutes).

Apparently, workers cost more than the food. Who would have thunk it?! Certainly not the minds of the best and brightest 1% of CEC University.

Quote from alansupra94 : I am assuming you have no clue how much a pizza costs to make or how much those workers get paid. They aren't professional chefs back there. ........Ask any manager at Chuck E Cheese and they will tell you they make nothing on games, everything on food. I love watching people with no common sense agree with other people with no common sense.