Chuck E. Cheese
US arcade / themed pizza entertainment chain
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| May 2025 | The company announced the launch of its 'CEC Media Network', a digital out-of-home network to be featured in its venues. |
| 2025 | Planned expansion to Jamaica and Guyana. |
| April 2025 | The company announced that all 125 of its active play areas would be renamed from 'Adventure Zone' to 'Chuck E.'s Superhero Playground'. |
| March 2025 | First Chuck E. Cheese opened in the Dominican Republic, located in Sambil Mall in Santo Domingo, franchised by Leo Castellon. |
| March 2025 | Pasqually's Pizza & Wings was shut down after being used as a testing ground for new menu items targeting audiences outside of the Chuck E. Cheese demographic. |
| February 2025 | Rebranded Fun Spot Arcade to 'Chuck's Arcade', with first location opening at Mall of Georgia in Buford, Georgia, and second location at Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, New Hampshire. |
| February 9 2025 | CEO David McKillips confirmed the Mississauga, Ontario, Canada location would keep their animatronic stage. |
| 2024 | Chuck E. Cheese expanded to Kuwait. |
| December 2024 | Announcement of Chuck E. Cheese's official debut in the United Kingdom, targeting Glasgow, Manchester, and Bristol. |
| December 2024 | First Chuck E. Cheese location announced to open in Guyana through a multi-unit franchise agreement. |
| October 2024 | Chuck E. Cheese announced a partnership with Thrifty Ice Cream to create a birthday cake-flavored ice cream, to be sold at 34 Chuck E. Cheese fun centers and 350 Rite-Aid locations in Southern California. |
| September 2024 | Chuck E. Cheese launched Fun Spot Arcade at the Trumbull Mall in Connecticut, a new mall arcade chain that uses the Play Pass card system but lacks direct Chuck E. Cheese branding. |
| August 2024 | Chuck E. Cheese announced a national tiered membership program. |
| August 2024 | The company announced a national tiered membership program. |
| June 2024 | The company began testing a small obstacle course called the 'Ninja Run' at the Grand Prairie, Texas location, with plans to expand to more US locations in 2025. |
| May 24 2024 | After initial plans to phase out animatronics, Chuck E. Cheese announced that additional locations in Charlotte, North Carolina; Hicksville, New York; and Springfield, Illinois would keep their animatronic stages. |
| March 2024 | Announced first location in Perth, Western Australia would be opening. |
| February 2024 | First Chuck E. Cheese location opens in Egypt at Sheik Zayed's Royal Mall. |
| January 2024 | CEC Entertainment announced a new game show developed by Magical Elves, featuring adults competing with larger versions of classic Chuck E. Cheese arcade games like pinball, air hockey, and Skee-Ball. |
| January 2024 | Announcement of Chuck E. Cheese's return to Australia with a multi-unit franchise partnership with Royale Hospitality Group. |
| November 10 2023 | Northridge, California location became the first 'legacy and new' store to keep their animatronic stage, with Nolan Bushnell attending the grand reopening. |
| April 2023 | The company began testing a small trampoline zone for children at the Brooklyn, New York location, which was later installed in most company-owned US and Canadian locations. |
| February 2023 | Third Chuck E. Cheese location opens in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. |
| 2022 | Chuck E. Cheese expands to Qatar. |
| August 2022 | Announcement made for the first Chuck E. Cheese in Egypt, planned for Sheik Zayed's Royal Mall. |
| 2021 | Expanded to Bahrain with new locations. |
| 2021 | Chuck E. Cheese begins operations in Bahrain. |
| 2020 | Chuck E. Cheese retired paper tickets and transitioned to electronic tickets stored on Play Pass cards, modernizing their arcade ticket redemption system. |
| 2020 | Bella Bunny was promoted to a main character in the Chuck E. Cheese band, becoming the tambourine player. |
| December 2020 | CEC Entertainment emerged from bankruptcy under the ownership of its lenders, led by Monarch Alternative Capital, successfully restructuring the company's financial situation. |
| September 2020 | CEO David McKillips announced the launch of a new entertainment division aimed at producing movies and TV shows featuring Chuck E. Cheese characters. |
| July 2020 | Darien, Illinois location replaced their 3-Stage animatronics with Studio C 2000 backdrops and a 16-movement animatronic. |
| June 25 2020 | CEC Entertainment filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, facing $1–2 billion in debt due to the COVID-19 pandemic's financial impact. |
| March 2020 | Chuck E. Cheese launched a ghost kitchen called Pasqually's Pizza & Wings during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering pizza, wings, desserts, and other food through delivery services. The brand is named after Pasqually P. Pieplate, a character from the restaurant's animatronic band. |
| 2019 | Chuck E. Cheese expands to Jordan. |
| 2019 | Restaurant name is further simplified from 'Chuck E. Cheese's' to 'Chuck E. Cheese'. |
| July 29 2019 | The proposed merger between CEC Entertainment and Leo Holdings Corporation was terminated. |
| 2018 | Bella Bunny was first introduced as a new character in the Chuck E. Cheese band. |
| August 2017 | The company piloted a new design concept at seven locations, known as Chuck E. Cheese Pizzeria & Games (Chuck E. Cheese 2.0), featuring upscale decor, an open kitchen, digital Play Pass card system, and replacing animatronic stages with dance floors. |
| 2016 | The company introduced 'Chuck E.'s Play Pass' card system, replacing traditional tokens and providing a new method for customers to access and play arcade games. |
| 2016 | Chuck E. Cheese opens a location in San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago. |
| May 2015 | The 'Chuck E. Live Stage' (Stage V2 or 'Dance Floor') was created, featuring no animatronics and performances only with costumed characters. |
| 2014 | First Chuck E. Cheese location opens in Chaguanas, Trinidad & Tobago. |
| October 2014 | CEC Entertainment acquired all locations of Peter Piper Pizza, which continues to operate under its original name. |
| February 2014 | Apollo Global Management acquired CEC Entertainment, Inc. for $54 per share, totaling approximately $950 million. |
| August 2013 | Montgomery, Alabama location became the first Chuck E. Cheese's in 11 years to open without any animatronics, using a Circles of Light stage. |
| 2012 | Chuck E. Cheese is rebranded into a slimmer, Rockstar-themed version in response to the previous year's sales decline. |
| September 2012 | The 'Circles of Light' stage at the Montfort Drive location in Dallas, Texas removed their animatronic, initially using the stage platform for costumed character performances. |
| August 2012 | The first Chuck E. Cheese's location opened without animatronics in Montgomery, Alabama. |
| July 2012 | The mascot was redesigned again, this time as a rockstar playing a guitar. Jaret Reddick, vocalist and guitarist of Bowling for Soup, replaced Duncan Brannan as the character's voice. |
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