I’ve never been to a CEC.
What, exactly is it, that regularly spawns melees and fist fights?
I have never been to one either, but apparently they have pizza and games/activities. People end up fighting over the games and their kids’ involvement in the games.
Gaming Machines spit out coupons that can be redeemed for prizes.
Kids steal coupons from one another and then parents get involved.
Divorce and little children’s birthaday parties bring a lot of bad blood together .
Beer and family and screaming kids.
It’s volatile.
I like to remind my now 17 year old daughter about the time when she was 5 years old and a Non-Amish teenager tried to steal her Chuckie Cheese coupon tickets from her.
She grabbed the girl and yanked the coupon tickets back from her.
The Girl moved onto to other little kids to steal from.
The only surprise is that there is not more violence.
Chuck E Cheeses are training grounds for habitual gamblers. Kid play games that cost coupons their folks buy for them where they win more coupons for prizes or more plays.
Mostly lower middle class families eating very bad pizza and drinking sodas while their kids climb through and vomit in multi-level mazes, or play the kind of coin operated game apparati usually found in amusement park arcades. Seemingly infinite streams of paper tickets spew from the machines as the players pump in their quarters. Every half hour or so an animatronic giant rat performs an unintelligible quasi rock and roll number on a stage. After a couple hours the families dutifully line up to have their accumulated tickets counted and use them to acquire small and utterly worthless prizes that even China gave up manufacturing sometime in the 1980’s.