From the Wall Street Journal...
"In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese's."
"Officers have been called to break up 12 fights, some of them physical, at the child-oriented pizza parlor since January 2007. The biggest melee broke out in April, when an uninvited adult disrupted a child's birthday party. Seven officers arrived and found as many as 40 people knocking over chairs and yelling in front of the restaurant's music stage, where a robotic singing chicken and the chain's namesake mouse perform."
"In Pennsylvania, Susquehanna Township police are searching for suspects involved in a Nov. 9 altercation at a Chuck E. Cheese's outside Harrisburg. The police department gets called to respond to disputes at the restaurant as many as 15 times a year, Police Chief Robert Martin says."
"To appeal to adults, about 70% of the chain's locations serve wine and beer. Some city officials have pinpointed that as the main cause of the fighting. Milwaukee Alderman Tony Zielinski called for the removal of Chuck E. Cheese's beer-and-wine license in 2006 after he received police notification and complaints from constituents about fighting there. The company stationed armed security guards inside the restaurant in an effort to make it safer."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122878081364889613.html
2 comments:
I don't know about the beer/wine connection, but it used to make me mad when those dang kids cut in front of me at the games! It's as if the place is for them!
Was there any investigation into where these Chuck-e Cheese's are located? Maybe the areas they are located are unsafe and attract a crowd that sees Chuck-e as a babysitter while they get to have a drink and watch that entertaining show!
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