Chuck E. Cheese’s

They have a good many games that are good for kids and some that even us parents can enjoy. It can be a bit crowded at times but the workers do a decent job of watching the kids whose parents don’t even care. That is my only dislike is the parents who come with kids under 8 and just let them «roam wild». However, that’s the parents fault and not the establishments.

This was actually the new location on Hwy 280 but there was not a page available for that location as of yet. It had been awhile since I had taken the fam to a Chuck E Cheese’s and I am still finding that for the price ordering a pizza from Papa John’s and hitting up a playground is a much better experience.
I went on a Friday about midday and it was super crowded. I assume it’s probably always crowded so there is no avoiding that I suppose.
The pizza was meh and the games at this location are the same old ones as the Hoover location. Nothing new and several were already in the standard Chuck E Cheese’s malfunction mode.
All in all I can’t image I’d go back anytime soon.

I was very pleasantly surprised when I took my family a few weeks ago, and we’ve been back three times since (as of this writing, I’m the Mayor on Foursquare – not sure what that says). The pizza is decent, but nothing special. The kids like it. I was especially impressed by the salad bar. I confess, I wasn’t expecting much from a Chuck E. Cheese salad bar, but it’s really excellent. All the ingredients are fresh and flavorful, and it’s a particularly good value if you have a coupon.
The staff is very pleasant, and they’re very generous with extra tokens should one of the games or rides eat one (I trust you won’t take advantage of their generosity). I find that our 4yo and 2yo really enjoy the games and rides. It’s a very affordable good time, and I hope to use Chuck E. Cheese tokens and tickets to teach the kids about saving and delayed gratification.
It’s going to be our default reward trip for when the kids earn a given number of stickers on their little sticker chart (they also dispense gratis tokens to kids who are making a special trip like this). They’ve definitely earned our business.

Why have three registers if you only ever open one. People lined up out the door; employees standing around idle; one register open. Sigh… Also, three different machines took my tokens. OK, I don’t care about the money that much, but what a hassle… and on some level it is stealing. I mean if I stopped and tracked down an employee every time a machine took my money, we wouldn’t have been able to play ANY games. It’s too bad that this place doesn’t have a standard of excellence mindset in its management plan. I think we are done here. We tried twice and were disappointed both times. We’ll just go to a movie, the McWane or a park.