Chuck E Cheese’s

The Good: Pizza is actually WAY better than I remember. Crust is perfectly baked, crispy around the edges and cheesy. Lots of toppings. Plenty of games and a few rides — Pretty much something for all ages. Loads of coupons for combo packages and free tokens. They also have an app that allows you to play and earn tickets from home. This is a great way for you ticket hungry kid to earn tickets with no impact to your wallet. I’d say 99% of the games were working on our last two visits. Attendants are quick to make things right of there is a problem with a token stealing game. Restrooms and party tables where very clean.
The Bad: I’ve taken my kids twice in about six months. On both occasions I saw a pizza sitting in the delivery window. On both occasions there appeared to be members of management sitting in a booth within view of said window. On both occasions that pizza sat in the window far too long. On both occasions that pizza was mine.
On the last visit the salad bar was well stocked and clean. But I was surprised to see a few patrons at the bar getting salad on their Chuck E plates that are reserved for pizza while I got my salad on the black salad plate I paid several dollars for.
On both of my recent visits there were many dirty tables. I would assume it’s difficult to know when people are still holding a table or are no longer dining, but for me the indicator would be no cups and no coats.
Parties can really become expensive unless you don’t plan on feeding adults or you have very few children. My cousin spent over $ 600 on her three year olds last party.
Overall, my kids like CEC. The pizza is good. They can burn off lots of energy running around. Which makes for a nice quiet ride home. We’ll be back.

The last time we visited this location will probably be our last ever. The pizza was ok & the associates were fairly pleasant until a problem came up with the salad bar. When I went to the salad bar I saw a long black hair in the baby corn. I went over to 2 employees who were sitting in a booth chatting & let them know there was hair in the corn. They said «ok» and continued to sit there talking for a few minutes. Finally one of them got up, went over to the salad bar, picked the hair out of the corn, dropped the hair onto the floor & went back to the booth to chat some more leaving the dish of corn on the salad bar. I finally went back to the lady & asked «aren’t you going to remove that food?). She finished her conversation then went & grabbed the dish, went to the kitchen & immediately reappeared with a dish of corn which she put back on the salad bar. I am pretty sure she just brought the same bowl of corn back out because it was 10 min before they were shutting down the salad bar. Either way, they didn’t seem too concerned that there was hair in the food & I was pretty grossed out so I don’t think we will be going back there.

It’s great for kids. Chucke is the best dude ever. Having a birthday party there is great, the shows are awesome! They even serve good pizza.

We brought my daughter here because I promised her we would before school started. Staff is not the friendliest and the food is not the best. We all know this. BUT my daughter loves it, so we drag ourselves down to this germ-​infested playground once again for an afternoon of friendly competition.
The bathrooms were relatively clean but there were adult customers exiting without washing hands. Nearly enough to make me run, screaming from the building. Instead I just stayed and gave them the stink-​eye the rest of the time.
We’ll be back… sigh…I’m sure of it. With a large bottle of sanitizing solution in my bag.

We’ve hosted a birthday party and attended several at this location and those experiences have been great. However the last few times we’ve been here we were disappointed that so many of the games were out of order or out of tickets. The salad bar was out of several items including lettuce. The fountain drink area is ALWAYS a mess with spilled drinks lying around. But it’s still a fun place for kids who don’t mind the mess! Make sure you have coupons for food because ordering straight from the menu can get pricey.

It had been way more years than I can count since I had been here. In fact, the last time it was called Showbiz. I even had the second birthday party here before they even opened the show area (which was much more of a feature back in the day).
One of my friends suggested we bring our little ones here for lunch last week. I was a bit hesitant, thinking that toddlers wouldn’t have much to keep them entertained here. Wow was I wrong!
We ordered our pizza, grabbed some tokens and found a table. I wish they had more tables/​booths to accommodate high chairs. We sat down at a long, elementary cafeteria-​style booth and just moved one of the benches to the end of the table. Thankfully it wasn’t too busy in the area where we were. There was a birthday party near us and I was a bit disappointed in the setup. The Chuck E Cheese show is definitely not a selling feature now.
The pizza was better than I thought it would be. Our kids each at a couple of the smaller slices. Then it was off to play!
They have a toddler area with a couple little rides, games and a playground. While they loved everything in that area, they wanted to experience everything. My little guy was really drawn to all of the simulation rides.
We were there for more than two hours and probably could have stayed longer, but I was exhausted! Even a week after going, my little guy can’t stop talking about it. I would like to try another location and see how it’s different. This location felt a bit run down to me and not at all like I remembered. Of course none of this really matters if it puts a smile on your kid’s face and helps them get out all of their energy!

Great place for kids. Almost wall-​to-​wall video games. This creates quite a fun environment. The food is only okay. I would like to see more cheese on their pizza. The flavor was better this time around. The salad bar is average, but the ingredients are fresh. Take your kids, they’ll have a blast.

I went last summer for a birthday party of a family member and the air was not working so the temp was well over 100 in there, the salad bar was empty and had to ask several times to just get some lettuce, I can get a better pizza in the frozen foods section at price chopper and alot of the games were either not working or ate your tokens. I would never go back ever.

Almost all the online reviews I have read about this place weren’t very promising. We decided to take our 4 year old daughter to eat here on her birthday, no birthday party, just an evening out since her bday fell during the week. Anyway, it’s perfect for kids! All the games cost a quarter and there are a ton that she could actually play and were at her skill level. Plus there is a slide and stuff to climb around in. The pizza was actually pretty good and we had a coupon for a pizza/​drinks/​token deal which saved us a few bucks. They also have a salad bar that looked good, but at almost $ 6.00 extra, I passed.

Pizza and children; who doesn’t love both?! Chuck E. Cheese is still the classic kids pizza place it has always been. I went recently with my niece and nephew and the pizza is as good as I remember it from years ago. The ball pit isn’t nearly as big or as deep as I recall and the kids are ten times more annoying than I remember being a that age, but back to the pizza– delicious and well worth it.
I’m pretty sure you can’t to Chuck E. Cheese without children due to that fact that it would be really creepy, but if you have kids, younger siblings, or nieces and nephews I recommend taking a trip down memory lane and stopping by Chuck E. Cheese for a hot slice of pie and endless hours filled with kids laughing, playing and having a blast.

The Chuck E Cheese’s in Chicago doesn’t serve beer but this one does! Over Thanksgiving, my girlfriend and I had the best date ever here and we’re not ashamed to admit that. I also may have seen a drug deal go down in the men’s restroom. This place still has all the great games and is a good time for all.