Massive brawl at Chicago Area Chuck E. Cheese.

We be civilized!!

I hate writing this and almost don't want to, but it is very relevant to the thread.

A few months ago my husband and I gave in to our daughter's request and decided to hold her 5-year birthday party at the Chuck E. Cheese here in town. She invited her entire class, which was about 30 kids.

It was a random Tuesday evening, so the place was not crowded. A few families having dinner. We were the only party.

If you've hosted a Chuck E. Cheese party, you know how it works. Kids each get 20 tokens (every game/ride is 1 token) and there is about 30 minutes of arcade time prior to the pizza coming out. So all of the 5-year-olds are playing games and having fun when in walks a family with about 5 kids ranging from 5 to 10 years old. I guess they order something to eat but their kids go straight to the game room and start ordering the kids in our party to "let them hold a token." Our kids are preschoolers who don't even understand what is going on, so they do what they are told. I see it happen a few times and decide to intervene by alerting their parents. My husband was kind of mad so i didn't want him getting involved. I approach them nicely and explain the situation and get a blank stare and the mom screams across the restaurant at one of the kids, who just looks up and runs off. She then tells me to tell her kids to "stop begging."

Obviously their kids continue to do this and I can't follow them around yelling at them, so I alert our guests' parents and we do our best to slow it down. I spoke to the manager and she said it happens almost every party but that there is little they can do about it if the family has ordered food.

She did offer to help us out when one of the kids grabbed a piece of cake, but I told her to let the kid have it and even offered it to the other 5 or so non-party kids in the restaurant.

I can see where if this happened to a party that was being given by someone who was more hostile than we were, a fight could break out.

This happened because they ran out of Eggnog

You are negligent to eat at such god-awful places in the first place and you will incur any bad experience you have there just by being around people who think it's OK to eat that crap as a meal. It's a message to eat healthier...MUCH healthier.

Any sane parents bringing their children to such a lard-laden hellhole is asking for trouble and should probably have a meeting with social services, I mean, why would feed your children that slop?

Moral of the story, don't waste your money and compromise your family's long-term by eating at shithole fast food restaurants. You want your kids developing a taste for that slime? These fast food places across the board are ridiculously bad for you anyway.

Stop eating shit and you won't encounter people and families who like to eat shit and feed it to their children. Let this be a warning. If you continue to eat fast food you deserve to encounter its horrible clientele.

This is very, very true. The pizza was God awful and they only had soda to drink. They thought we were weird when we asked if we could just do water for the kids.

I mean, Coke is fine at a birthday party for 12 year olds, but not 5 year olds.

My advice to other parents is that when your kid asks to have their party at CEC, just bring up something more attractive and skip that hell hole.

A lady at work had her daughter's party at Chuck E. Cheese, and some woman dropped her two little girls off at the party. Something seemed strange, she did not recognize the children, and neither did any of the other children or parents. She asked the girls who they were. Long story short, that woman had dropped her kids off there to attend whatever random party they could get in on. The lady I work with called the mother (the children had her cell phone number) to come pick up her kids she said she would be there in "an hour" to get them. She told the manager about it; I would have called the police myself.

There's no such thing as bad or unhealthy food. There's nothing wrong with eating lard. It's all about balance. Relax.

Mom of 5 year old wrote:

A few months ago my husband and I gave in to our daughter's request and decided to hold her 5-year birthday party at the Chuck E. Cheese here in town. She invited her entire class, which was about 30 kids.

Why would you have a child's birthday party at a restaurant that caters almost exclusively to creepy middle-aged single men?

3/10.

hrhrs wrote:

There's no such thing as bad or unhealthy food. There's nothing wrong with eating lard.

It was reminiscent of a similar disturbance at the restaurant in March 2011, when five men and a teenage boy were charged with mob action and disorderly conduct after a brawl in which an arcade machine was tipped over. Police also used pepper spray in that incident.

I would choose to patronize one of the other fine dining establishments in Matteson.

Why were these people even at Chuck E. Cheese's in the first place. They have there own version called Dante's Pizza Palace. It's separate but equal.

Sheesh wrote:

I would choose to patronize one of the other fine dining establishments in Matteson.

Country Club Hills is nice this time of year.

poster of clear thinking wrote:

3/10.

hrhrs wrote:

There's no such thing as bad or unhealthy food. There's nothing wrong with eating lard.

Please name an unhealthy food.

Pork rinds!

Orrville Slobberknocker wrote:

Pork rinds!

What exactly is unhealthy about pork rinds?

Triesha Jackson say we be civlized and respuctable peepils who cen do as we pleez white folk!

now leddus in yo Chuck E Cheezes

It's racists like you who need to be civilized.

TrieshaJ wrote:

Triesha Jackson say we be civlized and respuctable peepils who cen do as we pleez white folk!

now leddus in yo Chuck E Cheezes

Who the hell thinks Matteson is in the "Chicago area?" That's a stretch.