Chuck E. Cheese

Skee-ball at a Charles Entertainment Cheese

Charles Entertainment Cheese is a franchise of arcades and restaurants. Their restaurants have small rides, pizza (a central focus), and arcade / skill games. It was previously called Charles Entertainment Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (1977–1991).

In most of their stores, they operate animatronic robot characters which sing songs and play instruments.

Created in 1977 in San Jose, California by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, it started out as Charles Entertainment Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre. In 1984, CEC got bought out by Then-competitor ShowBiz Pizza Place from Topeka, Kansas and changed their corporate name to "ShowBiz Pizza Time". In 1989, Brock Hotel Management(then owners of SPT) sold it's "Monterrey's Tex-Mex Cafe" brand to them and spun off SPT into a separate company. In 1991, all ShowBiz and Pizza Time stores re-branded as "Charles Entertainment Cheese's Pizza" and in 1998 SPT changed their corporate name to "CEC Entertainment". In 1999, CECE bought out their primary competitor, Discovery Zone and in 2014 they bought the "Peter Piper's Pizza" chain. In 2013, CECE got bought by Apollo Global Management as was / is put up for sale.

CECE's headquarters are in Irving, Texas and have 590 CEC store locations worldwide.

In September 2020, it was announced that Charles Entertainment Cheese is developing a live-action movie and an animated television series.

Chuck E. Cheese Media

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  Two children in the Ticket Blaster, where children having birthday parties can collect as many tickets as they can before the time expires

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  An older Chuck E. Cheese location under the now-defunct title of Chuck E Cheese's Pizza

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  Chuck E. Cheese's Boulevard Marina in Viña del Mar, Chile

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  Chuck E. Cheese's Mallplaza in Trujillo, Peru

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  A 2001 Chuck E. Cheese token

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  Chuck E. Cheese "Studio C Beta" animatronic, 2017

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  Munch's Make Believe Band "1 stage", 2009