Chuck E Cheese’s

We come here with relative frequency on the weekends over the winter months. It’s a great way to spend a couple of hours. My 4 – 7 year olds love it. In my experience the staff is pleasant enough and it’s not too crowded (though we tend to go in the morning –not sure if afternoon is different).

Celebrated my son’s 5^th birthday party of seven at Chuck E. Cheese on 09÷20÷15. My son had a fantastic time. Our host was super attentive and friendly. She went above and beyond to make sure that my son, his guest & the adults were happy at all times. I’ve never celebrated a birthday at Chuck E. Cheese & I must say that this particular location was clean the staff was helpful. Not to mention had a great selection of games for children of all ages to play.
On the downside…
The location was good in the earlier hours of the day on that particular Sunday. However at about 3pm it became a little more crowded with children that were not being supervised by their parents. Some children were not using the machines properly. I would even say in a dangerous way. Not to mention leaving the games broken. I did not notice any of the staff members address the parents of the children. Not only for their safety but for the sake of having other children enjoy the games as well.
Overall, we had a great time and I would recommend this location and plan on coming back again during earlier portion of the day.

We had a party of 17 people and it was on a weekday so it was not very busy. The only real complaints I have:
1. It took forever for the food to come out.
The first pizza came out about 30 minutes. after we asked for the food. 20 minutes later we had to go check and they had put the pizzas in the oven but forgot to press the on button!
2. Also, several games were not working properly. They would take the tokens or work for one kid then stop working, etc.
3. Of all the ticket muncher machines to convert tickets into the receipt only 3 out of 10 were working at any given time.
I personally would prefer to be water boarded than to go to a Chuck E. CHEESE’S. But my kids love it and going during the day was a better experience. On weekends and later in the day is when you run into the problems of the less desirable crowd!
***IMPORTANT NOTE: The young woman that attended to us was absolutely AMAZING. Her name is Keyla and she is only 17. But not only was she delightful, but she came by often all while cleaning, manning the register, where kids pickup toys, taking orders to ALL of the tables, she swept, basically this young woman appeared to be the only employee caring for customers in the entire LARGE place with the exception of the young woman at the front handling security, one young woman at the area where kids redeem tickets and a man who I assume was the manager that was at the register.
Their problems can be addressed with better management in my opinion. I never thought I would recommend a 17 year old, but they should make Keyla the manager because this young woman has her act together, has an incredible work ethic AND she has a wonderful personality and disposition!

Games not working. Dirty tables. Useless staff.
Was here for a birthday party. Not recommended.

Not sure if I am giving extra love for the food by remembering how much it has improved over the years. But, I had the Italian sub and I’d order it again. The cheesy bread sticks have just the right amount of garlic to make them delicious for the grown ups as well as the kids. Chicken wings are ok. I still can’t try the pizza based on past experiences at the chain. Also, I am a big fan of the skee ball machines and the basketball and football toss games.

This place deserves not a dime. It’s ghetto heaven in this place. Police officer holding his holster? In Chuck E Cheese? The crowd is awful, people with no respect visit this place. Management? Is full of crap. NEVER EVER MAKE A BIRTHDAY PARTY RESERVATION HERE!!! You’ve been warned.
I wrote to the company to explain the worse customer service experience in my life. Have you looked at my photos? Burned pizza. 1 hour into the party and still no tokens. Leaving the children and adults, just 1 hour left to have «Fun». You get a 2 hour limit for your reserved table. I kept hunting down the hostess who was not doing her job, called the manager and she was just as useless. I am beyond disgusted with this place. $ 400 on nothing but a piece of sh** party. Never ever again and I will spread the word!

My son loves this place, he always enjoys himself when he comes here and to top it off i love the fact that if there is a machine that takes your coins, there are staff members there to fix them and give you the coins you lost back. Its better to come early in the mornings rather late.

Threw our son a birthday party here, this place is horrible, a lot of the ticket counting machine where broken, a lot of the games took tokens and didn’t work or give tickets after it says you win some. We got the Mega Super Star package for 10 kids, one who was in a wheelchair. Our hostess was switch mid-​party, our table wasn’t fully set up, our food was late, my son was served a hotdog wrap in pizza dough, the pizza dough was raw in the middle, our drinks where water down, my son didn’t recive the «1000 ticket voucher for the birthday rock star», he was only given 300 tickets. The prices of toys if you’re paying cash for them are ridiculous. Tickets per game are always low which only allows you to get cheat quarter toys. We had to keep reminding the Hostess about food, drinks and supplies. Smh, never throwing a chuckecheese party again

Ade Due Damballa, give me the power I beg of you! One ends up chanting this just to survive here. What this place needs is Charles Lee «Chucky» Ray to manage here,. similar to kitchen impossible.
Came here for a first birthday celebration. My 7 year old nephew tagged along for it. As we entered, I used the promoter name aka the birthday boy to get in. The bouncer pulled out her list searched, resulting in us receiving our stamps.
My nephew was like a veteran Atlantic city gambler. Seemingly with all the superstition that comes with gambling. He knew what games to stay away from as they where broken in some sort of way. There was a game that was just scrolling «abort, retry fail» all the children looked at it in amazement.
The staff, the kids running it was a romper room. I couldn’t tell who was a worker or and who wasn’t. Let’s face it in the end we are here for the kids. Funny thing is you ask them did you have fun? My nephew said «best time in the world.» Hey, i guess that is what matters versus them tearing up the living room. They can go tear up chuck games, let it out bang the ‘ish out of them. Well I’m sure most parents would rather that then having that little Picaso writing on the walls with crayons.

Oh Chuck E. Cheese in Harlem.
GET it together. Do it for the kids please!
Celebrated my nephew’s first birthday here. My little prince is finally one and as the proud aunt I am of course I was a little hesitant to choose Chuck E. Cheese as the venue of choice but you know what? Throwing a kids party is no joke… And we were NOT going to hire a creepy clown or whack magician so CEC it was!
Great for kids. Kids don’t care half of the machines don’t work. And that the ticket blaster only gives you single tickets that will take you an hour to redeem. Or that the service was appalling and they should make their job training more rigorous. Or that all their employees look clinically depressive. Or that their prizes suck tremendously. Or that it smelled like sweaty socks. Or that there was some borderline ratchet crap going on on the floor. UGH. Of course kids will be kids and still have an awesome time. Unfortunately for me I’m an adult so I notice all that’s wrong with the place.
Don’t think I’d take my nephew back as this place, though not too far from where I live, needs to get their crap together or perhaps stop hiring beauty school dropouts. Yeh– I said it.
Maybe that’s why my 1y. o nephew cried the entire time? Ha.

Came pretty early on Friday and the place was pretty empty — which was good. but unfortunately the staff was also absent for most of the experience. about %40 of the arcade machines have some issue (joystick /​buttons don’t work, doesn’t accept coins, doesn’t give out tickets, etc…), the pizza was Okay but the salad bar looked like it was standing there since last week. The only redeeming thing about this place is how cheap the games are.
Will we return? probably. I mean, the place is very badly run, but they have zero competition in the area, so what choice do we have?
Oh, and they should really have Wifi access there.

Do not go into this place!!! The workers and some parents are so ghetto!!! I went there today with my daughter for the first time and while holding my daughter who is 2. This woman approached me and was arguing and hitting me for the 7 tickets I just won, you would of thought it was 10,000. I have all these scratches on my face to prove it!!! The manager and workers did nothing and let her approach me the second time while I was carrying my 2 year old. He even told the cops he had restrained the animal. So apparently even the manager is a lier! When she was stating her «story» to him. She was able to walk about 3 yards to me and manager, employees stood back. Like they didn’t want to get into it! When I was approached I was told by her to put my daughter down for she can kick my ass. I was also called a crackhead and uneducated. Like really? Yeah I’m the crackhead trying to take a 2yrs olds CHUCK E CHEESE tickets. Mind you I had scrubs on. Manager never called cops never gave me a 1^st aid kit… nothing. He only wanted to listen to her side. Mind you I had a parent who came to my defense and they weren’t listening to him. He was the one who went to get the manager to stop the fight even though there were workers watching us. I had to pick my child up off the floor because she was pushed! 7 chuck E cheese tickets!!, really? I realize this woman must be there all the time if they didn’t kick her out being she was the aggressor or maybe an employee. Never will I go there again. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone gets stabbed. I called the cops and he said when he arrived that this is an everyday occurrence at this place. –_​– don’t say I didn’t warn you. Manager told me well she said you hit her. Really If someone is pushing you and hitting you you mean to tell me your not going to hit back? Then he said she has scratches too. Really? How I have no nails nor jewelry because of my job but anyway that’s not the point idiot! Give me my money back!!! We were only in there 30 min we didn’t get to really eat nor drink. I bought 90 tokens and we only used 15. He was not planning on refunding us until my sister said we called the police. That’s when he actually woke up!!! Plus most of the games were broken!!! This place smells like mildew and wet rotting mop!!! I do not know why anyone would bring their kids here and eat there food with a place looking and smelling like this!

This is a madhouse. I cannot tell the staff from the parents, from the kids because everyone was walking around with their pants sagging down.
The children were running around like they owned the world and I dare you to step in a child’s way in the middle of them trying to play a game. The staff are unorganized when it comes to the birthday party celebration, with little crowd control around Chuck E so the actual kids celebrating their birthdays couldn’t fully enjoy the experience.
This is not the best location for a child’s party, just because there is so much going on and running around. You’ve been warned.

Mad pollos at this location… Some moms think they in a (strip)club by the way they’re dressed, makes easy to spot potential… My bad, kids are oblivious to it, they have fun anywhere. The dude behind the register is mad slow but he tries hard, and that’s what counts… google something like Atlanta bike week and you’ll get the picture.

I like the place but mot of the people that work there, have the most unpleasant attitude ever. I guess they are under a lot of pressure dealing with parents and kids but, is not that serious, you have to have patients and be polite no matter what job you have dealing with the public. This is why I gave them 3 stars

You can catch me here doing my thang especially after XYZ. I go for the fun!!! I Love Chuck E. Cheese’s, I’m just as much as a kid as the next rat bastard.
Foreal though you guys with the kids need to watch ur dam rodent children man!!! …“HEY MISTER CAN I GET A TOKEN I REALLY WANA PLAY A GAME”…HEY KID I’M NOT A MISTER.

Much like reruns of Blossom and the rectangles of Elio’s Pizza also of my youth, Chuck E. Cheese’s is far better when a little drunk. Stop at Showman’s across 125^th Street for a martini, then brave the dirty escalator and mob of children sticky with urine and soda to play some skeeball and whatever 40% of the video games happen to be working. Whatever tickets you win, give to the poor fat kid who keeps getting ditched by his cousin who already had his growth spurt, and walk back out into the night from whence you came. Do not eat here. Bring hand sanitizer. Avoid weekends and later nights when teens take over and young love mucks up the vibe with fighting and slutty tank tops filled to the brim being jostled by boys who could be gentler, but then wouldn’t get to enjoy the bouncing result of their jostling.

I’ve taken Giovanni here a few times now, after the one in the Bronx (Satan’s Asshole) this one is actually not a complete shit storm. The bx one had kids asking me for money, broken games and piss everywhere. half hour then and we were gone. I swear i saw two 5yr olds smoking a cigarette outside, swear on that… kinda sad but oddly amusing to watch children smoke and curse. Im a horrible person what can u do. «Have u met Ben?»… anyway…
It was me Gio, my good friend and his niece and nephew. All the children are polite there, parents are mannered and easy to spend time with every time I’ve been there. No fighting, no pee pee… Bathrooms are clean. You freakin sliced ur veins and bleed twenties but whatever keeps them quiet you feel me… Gotta keep 2 6yr olds and a 3 yr old happy or you will not have a pleasant day. Didnt eat there I cant bring myself to pay $ 30 for a nasty ass pizza made by a 15yr old not wearing gloves and yes i looked in their «kitchen».
I will go back because I dont have a choice… ever…
Love my son what can you do.
TaDa im a good daddy, when i see him. O_​o dont judge me

the party rates are reasonable and a lot cheaper than everything else these days in «central park north» or whatever we are calling Kunta Kinte… I mean Toby… I mean Harlem today. the salad bar and the pizza are good, you can get hot dogs if your child is like mine and hates cheese, and the place is stocked with video games that actually work. its chuck e cheese. you know the deal. now on to one of the overlooked «perks» at chuck e cheese:
i know, i know, i know… chuck e cheese is supposed to be all about the kids and yada yada yada but the one on 125^th is a GREAT spot for single parents to hook up.
first of all, when you «bump» into a single parent there (by mistake of course *ahem*) you know they have kids or at least you know that they will be more likely to tolerate the fact that you do.
yes i know, this may be characterized as a ghetto review but trust me on this one because you will be glad to have been informed when you show up in your «cute» soccer mom gear.
hey, life is messy. you gotta get in where you fit in.

The only way to review Chuck E. Cheese’s is as a seven year old. Because after the experience I had yesterday (a Saturday Afternoon Child’s Birthday Party) — Anna the adult would rather get a root canal.
But, Anna the seven year old — well, she would have had a different experience…
Dickson’s Birthday party is gonna be at Chuck E. Cheese’s. I can’t wait. They have those huge TV’s in the back, and we can dance in front of them, and then we are on TV, awesome. Kelly cried though, because a bigger kid — I think he was at least a fourth grader — pushed her out of the way to show his friends how he can rap.
We got a whole cup of money for the games. Just like granny’s cup that she brings on the bus to Atlantic City. Nanny says that Granny is an addict, and the neon glow & cigarettes make her look like a smoked raisin, but sometimes, Nanny is in a bad mood. I want to be just like granny, all those exciting flashing lights and when you win, you get TICKETS!
A sixth grader stole Kelly’s tickets — but that’s ok, because when we sang Happy Birthday, it rained tickets. Some lady was dancin’ talking about «make it rain», and all of the daddy’s got a weird look on their face’s — but it was cool jumping for the tickets. Kelly fell down, but I gave her a ticket — so she felt better.
There were so many kids running around, it was like three schools had recess all together. The Mommy’s and Daddy’s stayed in the booths and watched. Sometimes, they played or took pictures, but they only ate celery and carrots and raw broccoli (or got stuff at the salad bar) WE GOT PIZZA. I was full after one bite, it was really chewy, and the cheese was so slippery, the cheese juice ran all over my hands and shirt. It left a really weird mark for juice (Nanny said it was grease), but it made my hands really slippery for when I was sliding through the tunnels — all of us were hangin’ out in the overhead tunnels, we were so packed in there — it was like we were trying to see how many kids we could fit into a tubesock, and then we slid out.
Nanny was worried about the flew — but Kelly said that was ok, because she already had something called H1pig something Flu, and she said that she was good enough to come out and play — so that’s good.
I was so excited that I got as much soda as I wanted, and the chocolate cake was just like the cake that they have at granny’s nursing home — I ate all of it.
And the best thing, I got 91 tickets from all the games that I played. That got me FOUR Tattoos. I could have had six plastic fish — but we have real ones at home –or I could have had NINE mini tootsie pops. Lots of kids were screaming for their mommy’s and daddy’s to buy them the big prizes, but I heard a daddy say that «No way in hell am I paying $ 30.00 for a Barbie Doll». Kelly laughed — she said that her daddy brigs her to the American Girl Shop. I asked Nanny what the American Girl Shop was, and Nanny said that American Girl was capitalism’s revenge on the American Dream, and the fifth sign of the Apocalypse. I rolled my eyes — she & mommy & daddy use big words and get that look. They don’t get kid stuff.
While we were on the mini merry go round, Kelly puked. I found out that she ate the pizza, the chocolate cake, and her friends who had a booth had french fries and chicken wings, and Kelly had six cups of coca-​cola. I found her Daddy and he took her home.
I stomped my feet and whined when Nanny said that we had to go home. She picked me up, and couldn’t figure out how to leave. The escalator was broken, so she carried me downstairs. Then we walked up to 125^th Street, and we couldn’t get a taxi. Nanny took some Tylenol, and we took the bus home. I fell asleep thinking Kelly is a wimp — how the hell is she gonna survive college?
It was the Best. Day. Ever.