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New Chuck E. Cheese floor show
ChadTower:
What he probably did was, brought his kids in, let them loose, whipped a used Chuck E Cheese bowl out of his coat and went to town.
fredster:
Doesn't some former Video Game exec own Cheeses?
ChadTower:
Not anymore. It was founded by Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, but he sold off a long long time ago when the concept failed.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Gunstar Hero on March 03, 2005, 11:32:09 am ---Really tho, the cost on that salad bar is nothing, if the guy ordered a pizza, a salad and 2 sodas he could hit that salad bar for 4 hours and Chuck is still coming out ahead. Either there's something that story doesn't tell us or that manager is a compulsive penny pincher.
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To stray WAY off the topic, you are factually incorrect. Re: food cost - that salad bar costs The Mouse WAY more, profit-wise, than pizza and soda.
Pizza is fairly inexpensive to produce, UNLESS they use actual fresh vegetables for toppings (although the small quantities of fresh veggies doesn't jack the cost up THAT much), and soda is usually the number 1 or number 2 most profitable item in a restaurant. Coffee is usually #1. If they don't serve coffee, soda is #2.
Salad, on the other hand, isn't sent like all the pizza ingredients. It is bought locally, and is usually only good for an obscenely short time, thereby requiring smaller amounts to be purchased, and far more expensive to throw away anything beyond it's time. The economies of scale will not apply to the salad bar.
This concludes the lesson in restaurant food cost and profitability. ;D
RayB:
CEC charges what, something like $4 for one slice of pizza? They kinda bring the moocher problem onto themselves.....
PS: From the Star Tribune:
"...Police responded to Chuck E. Cheese's after a manager complained that a patron had refused to show proof that he had paid for food..."
http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/5266865.html
And here are some other interesting CEC stories:
http://forums.dealofday.com/showthread.php?t=135594