Earlier this year, Chuck E. Cheese announced that it would phase out the animatronic characters that have been delighting kids since the late ’70s at all but five of its 400 U.S. locations. That was a ...

Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch’s Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times ...

When Chuck E. Cheese announced in May of 2024 that they were doing away with all but two of the animatronic bands that defined their brand of pizza-serving arcades since their inception, the company’s ...

Launched in the late 1970s by one of the founders of Atari, the chain was known for its arcade games, small rides, mediocre pizza, and especially its musical stage show featuring human-sized ...

For decades, Munch’s Make Believe Band at Chuck E. Cheese has performed for countless birthdays, end-of-season Little League parties and other celebrations. There’s been Chuck E. Cheese and Helen ...

A newly remodeled Chuck E. Cheese restaurant opened this week in Gage Park on Chicago’s Southwest Side, promising all the arcade games, screaming kids and pizza-fueled mayhem that parents have come to ...

PINEVILLE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Chuck E. commerce may never be quite the same, with a host of features geared toward the next generation of cheeseheads. On Friday, July 26 a grand reopening from 5 ...

With a handful of game tokens, mouthful of cheese pizza and earful of arcade sounds, people across the U.S. remember going to Chuck E. Cheese and being mesmerized by the animatronic show that Chuck E.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Chuck E. Cheese in downstate Illinois will be one of the select few to retain an animatronic band. In November, Chuck E. Cheese announced that it would be pulling the plug on the ...

At a Tallahassee, Fla., Chuck E. Cheese location, a police officer told children: “Chuck E.’s busy right now.” By Victor Mather The scene was a little unexpected: Someone being led away from a ...

Chuck E. Cheese has unlocked a new endeavor: Retro-style shopping mall arcades. In late June, CEC Entertainment, Chuck E. Cheese's parent company, unveiled Chuck's Arcade, retro-style arcades located ...