Chuck E Cheese’s

We took our 2 ½ year old here today for lunch and to get out of the house. It was my first time here. My little one loved it, and it was hard to get him to leave, although the mouse walking around scared the living daylights out of him. There are plenty of games here for the kids, and I have to say, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. They had the all you can eat pizza buffet for lunch, and there were 5 or 6 different pizzas (seemed very fresh) and a cinnamon pizza type dessert. There was also a very small salad selection included. All for 5.99 for adults. Kids 2 and under eat free for the buffet. The employees were all so incredibly nice. We will be back, just because the little one enjoyed it; except for the mouse :)

This is a great place to bring the kids and the games are fun for adults too! Every game costs one token and tokens cost between 30 and 33 cents depending on how many you purchase. The pizza is good, kids love it and I enjoy it too. The cheesy bread is great! Some of the rides take pictures that print out right on the ride, which I think is neat. Inexpensive fun for the whole family!

My kid out of both chuck e cheese we have near our houses, would prefer to go to this one more friendly and clean. And the staff are so friendly. They always make sure the salad bar is clean and has enough food for people, when you leave and you have left overs instead of throwing your food they took us boxes instead we wanted to take our food.

I live nearby, thus visit this chuck e cheese, often. It is always clean, they ALWAYS implement Kid Check (more than any other location), the staff is beyond nice to the children and parents… and I cannot imagine how challenging that might be given their exposure on a daily basis ;) The food keeps getting better and better. I recently went on a school holiday, and albeit very busy, it was a very relaxing and enjoyable time thanks to the staff… especially Juan and Michael that day. My special needs child did have a slight meltdown due to the ice cream machine malfunction, but as usual they handle it with calm and non-​judgement. Thank you Chuck E Cheese francise for guest internet access, for treating my children like royalty (which I see you do for all children), and for the positive experiences. Keep the coupons coming my way! Maybe I will have my birthday party there… lol.

Birthday party for my grandkids, Jarrad and Jiselle Miller, today, 09÷27÷15, with Carmen, Jarrad, Juliana, Lil Anthony, Ethan, Nathaniel.
Had a great time. Pizza, fruit lunch and spirit.

Here’s what they don’t do… they don’t check IDs when people pay for things. My debit card info was hacked and two transactions were at this place. ID theft hits everyone sooner or later, guess it was my turn, but checking IDs against the name on the card would help customers.

My boyfriend and I took our 2 yr old son here and we had so much fun pizza wasn’t that bad but you don’t go for the pizza you go for your kids and let them have fun and boy did my son have a blast! I think we will be having his 3^rd borthday party here! Can’t wait to go back and make more awesome memories!

It’s a great place to let your kids go run amok and get rid of some of that extra energy, but holy crap, parents need to learn how to keep an eye on their demon spawn! I had kids running into me left and right, not caring who they knocked over. Granted this isn’t Chuck E Cheese’s fault, but the nasty bathrooms were. Ew.
I’d probably take my nephews back on a weekday, but screw the weekends! You can’t even find a parking spot, so don’t even try. Just park next door at the breakfast place.

Positive: it’s a place to take the kids in bad weather
Negative: some frozen pizza is better.
Observation: I’ve been to other CEC that have «floor attendants» that help customers when the games don’t work properly (takes your coin won’t let you play, gives you wrong number of tickets, ticket counter jammed…). You won’t see that at this location.

It is what it is, so what else can be said? It is to my understanding that the food here at the Batavia location is better than that at Streamwood/​Hanover Park one, but I honestly don’t know as I’ve never been. However, with that said, even the food at this location is nothing to get something too excited about. We ordered a sausage pizza and I would say it is better than a Tombstone and better than Little Caesar’s, but beyond that you are pushing it, so nothing memorable. We also ordered two salad bars, and though it was mediocre, it was a good alternative that I was happy to have and I’d definitely order it again. The good news is you don’t have to order food if you don’t want to because that over-​sized mouse is all too happy to let you and your children come in and drop as many coins into his machines as you want.
This place is sheer heaven for a kid and yet simultaneously hell for any adult or parent. Perhaps that’s why kids love it?! The games are all newer and fairly inexpensive (they take one «coin» which is equal to .25), so you don’t feel like you are dropping a ton of money while there, but that is also coming from the parent of a 2.5 year old. I can’t imagine the amount of coin you could/​would drop if your kids were older. I certainly could have gotten my son a happy meal, had him eat it in the car, walked into Chuck E. Cheese with a $ 10 and the entire afternoon could have been over for less than $ 15.
We did go on a Thursday night so I am sure the crowds were lighter than the would be on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, but it was still pretty busy up until the time we left which was about 8. I have been duly warned that if you value your life you will avoid that place at all cost on the weekends as it becomes birthday party central. Thankfully, they do have the safety feature of hand stamps at the door where the only people that can leave w/​you are those that share the same hand stamp (i.e. your kids since you both walked in together). Not only did I personally watch them stamp our hands, move the stamp around so that our stamps would be unique, but also check each and every hand under the black light as people left the building. Definite kudos for this!
My other HUGE warning is that if you don’t watch out for your child no one else will! I found that out big time here at Chuck E. Cheese. They do have a slide and jungle gym attraction here, and of course it is a mecca for kids; however, it is really only intended for small children, but that neither keeps larger children out of it nor does it occur to their parents to point that out. Kids were climbing UP the slide, despite that being the only way down, and in a dark, covered slide that can be scary and confusing for a little guy. As I was standing there waiting for my son to come down I hear him SCREAMING as he is on the way down, and as I meet him at the bottom he tells me that an older kid pushed him down the slide– beautiful thing when kids are climbing up it huh?! The straw that broke the camel’s back was the 4 year old girl who LAID across the end of the slide, and then hung upside down from it– despite me telling her no fewer than 6 times to get off the end because other kids were coming down. For a brief moment she looked at me kind of like my dogs do– head cocked and fogged over. The rest of the time I could have sworn that she was hard of hearing because she didn’t even acknowledge me. WHAT?! At this stage of the game, you’d think that her parents would have witnessed any or all of this as it had gone on for several minutes, but no one ever came over, no one ever tended to her, and certainly no one came to me to ask why was I telling their kid to move. Finally her 8 or 9 year old sister came over and gently took her hand and led her to a different game… It was at that moment that I seriously thought I’d entered an alternate universe!
The good news is– despite the so-​so food, loudness, children running around wild, the potential to drop half of your mortgage money and end up with only a super cool pair of Kanye West-​esque shades, the parents that are stuck on stupid, and the cost of a bottle of Advil– your kids will LOVE it and better yet: THEY SERVE BEER!

I’m considering a class action lawsuit to stop «Chuck E. Cheese» from claiming they serve pizza !!!
Maybe I have a too high of standard for a quality pie, but you won’t find it here.
I take my daughter there just to play the games. There is a good selection of games for a 7 year old and they only cost 1 token.
The very best part of going here is that they stamp everyone’s hand when you enter and no one can leave that didn’t come in with you. That’s a very nice security/​safety feature.