New Chuck E. Cheese floor show

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4242058/detail.html

[GGKoul]

WOW!! I wonder how many lawsuits Chuck E Cheese/Police will be in because of this incident.

[ChadTower]

Police, 1.  Chuck E Cheese, 0.  Chuck E Cheese is not responsible for the behaviour of the Police.

[missioncontrol]

If the guy would have cooperated he probibly wouldn't have got tasered

[ChadTower]

Well, the witnesses say he was cooperating and they were pushing him around.  Who knows how reliable that is, but you really don't have to taser one man in front of a bunch of kids.  If two cops can't subdue him they shouldn't be cops, assuming the guy isn't 6-7 and 300lb (he was eating SALAD, after all).

I take my kids to chuck e cheese a lot.  It's like 100 kids and 15 adults, no way every adult brought 8 kids with them.  People use it like free babysitting.  I don't understand why they even keep it open.  If anything happens to one of those kids, THEN you will see a huge lawsuit.  Chance forbid the place burn down.  50 kids will die, there would be no way to herd all those unsupervised kids out the door.  They probably average 5 years old.

[fredster]

He didn't do what the cops said. He was refusing the direct order of a policeman.

He may have went off and hit them or whatever. If you are a cop, you don't get hurt, the other guy gets hurt. 

Besides, it wasn't established that this person paid for the salad. Was he also a thief?

If he didn't go outside willingly, I bet he was wrong.  He thought the cops would back off, and his gamble was lost.

Now, if he did play for the salad, that's another story, but not much of one. He could have produced a reciept and all would have been well.

This guy was being an ass and was treated like one.

[Thenasty]

The police should have just ask the guy if he paid for the salad or not. The guy probably thought he did and when he looks at the receipt, he did not, then ask him to pay for it, end of story.
This really got way out of control, for what...a FREAKING SALAD.
The guy probably got ROB for the price he paid for whatever he bought and not mentioning the $$$ his kids put into those machines.

The manager should have handled it by himslef, unless he is a CHICKEN....He could just ask the man if he paid for the salad or not.
And if the guy did not and acted rudely, then he tells him to leave or i'll call the police. End of story.

All this for a FREAKING GRASS.....BAD MANAGEMENT I say...
Maybe the guy though he paid for the salad, and probably willingly to apy for it once he realize he did not.

[quarterback]

Well, the witnesses say he was cooperating and they were pushing him around.

[Shape D.]

Well, the witnesses say he was cooperating and they were pushing him around.  Who knows how reliable that is, but you really don't have to taser one man in front of a bunch of kids. 

"Disobediance comes with a price, those unwilling to pay that price should shut the eff up and stay obediant."
- Chad Tower

I'm sorry, but thats funny.

[DrewKaree]

The manager should have handled it by himslef, unless he is a CHICKEN....He could just ask the man if he paid for the salad or not.
And if the guy did not and acted rudely, then he tells him to leave or i'll call the police. End of story.

Um...did you read your own words?  Mebbe he DID do what you suggested, and the end result was....um....I think you see where I'm going with this now. 

I'm going to have to look at that link!

[Gunstar Hero]

You gotta wonder what the cost was of that salad? A nickel? That manager had too  little to worry about to call the cops over that. 

[DrewKaree]

Maybe he figured Michael shouldn't have been in there because that's how he got into trouble in the first place, misunderstood him when he asked for a salad and thought Michael asked to toss HIS salad....and that just pushed him over the edge 

[paigeoliver]

Having worked at many restaurants I am going to say that the person probably had a regular habit of loading up on the salad bar without paying for it, and had probably been confronted about it in the past and had gotten away with it using threats.

Used to have similar problems at Shoneys. You didn't call the police unless it was someone with a history of doing it.

[ChadTower]

Plus, they charge you like $10 for a tiny little dish for the salad bar there.  ALL of their profit is on the food, the cost of running the place entirely.  The food is ---smurfy--- and like 3x normal price.  He probably did pay for a salad in like November and figures with what he paid he's still entitled to the bar.

[nighthawk2099]

The problem with the whole story is that every C.E.C. I have been too (and with 2 boys  ages 7 and 11 I have been to good number of them) they do not just have plates at the salad bar for people to use.  They give you a little bowl for the single trips and a larger plate for unlimited visits.   With that being said, the man had to have paid for the salad before getting the plate and depending on the type of plate, one could tell which he paid for..... no need for violence....

My take on what happened (only because I have seen it before at one of the local C.E.C.).

The man paid for the salad, but having maybe made 3 or more trips and building mega salads, the manager took it upon himself to tell the man that he had eaten enough and that he should back off for awhile.  Man told manager where he could stick it.  Manager decides to get even by calling the cops and making up the story.  True the man could have just showed the receipt and been done with it, but still, there was really no reason for such brutallity.

[ChadTower]

I've seen people there order one bowl and have 5 people use it.

[Shape D.]

I dont think I've ever actually gotten a reciept at Chuck E Cheese. And I'm guessing its not their normal practice to give them out unless the customer asks for one.

[ChadTower]

Sometimes they hand it to you, sometimes it stays on the register, but it's always there if you need it.

[Gunstar Hero]

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.

[quarterback]

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.

Yeah, but that's not how commerce works.

[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]

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.

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. 

[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

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how many tokens to get tasered?  

[Thenasty]

let me use my INK to reveal the INVISIBLE INK they used

[ChadTower]

Use your invisible dictionary too. 

[DrewKaree]

Use your invisible dictionary too. 

* DrewKaree falls off his chair, laughing hysterically, soda spewing from his mouth

THAT had to be the most low-key funny-as-hell comment seen around these parts!

[missioncontrol]

Use your invisible dictionary too.

[Thenasty]

damm invisible keys.....

glad to give you a good laugh from a hard days or work. 

[Gunstar Hero]

Use your invisible dictionary too.

LOL!

Got told. 

[Thenasty]

getting a good laugh actually gives you a better health. So LOL away.....I myself is LOL